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- Press Releases, Show Announcements and Industry News Wanted!
- "Beefy" Dual-Cylinder
Roller Gate is a "Smooth Operator"
- BMH
Chronos Richardson Inc. Relocates US Offices to Dallas
- Top Picks at Amazon.com
- Ask Joe Column!
- Drexelbrook's New Overfill Protection
System
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- Hosokawa Bepex Earns " Excellent" Rating from AIB
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Space
Saving Design
"Beefy" Dual-Cylinder
Roller Gate is a "Smooth Operator"
Salina, KS - Salina Vortex
Corporation announces its new Dual Cylinder Salina Roller Gate for
handling dry materials in gravity flow applications where positive
material shut off and a dust tight seal are required.
The
dual cylinder design reduces the overall length of the gate by 1/3
compared with end mounted air actuators. A shorter length and narrow
profile ( 3 3/8" - 4 1/8") allow this gate to be used in
many applications such as under hoppers, mixers, screw conveyors and
silos, where overall space or headroom is a concern.
Properly sized air control solenoids
and airlines combined with full stroke polymer blade guides provide
for smooth blade actuation and eliminate associated seizing and
binding problems. No metal on metal contact eliminates foreign
metals in product.
The Dual Cylinder Salina Roller Gate
is available in 6" through 20" square sizes. Optional
rectangular sizes, stainless steel frame, square to round
transitions and seal access port (for easy replacement of worn
bonnet seals) are also available.
Salina Vortex Corporation builds
their dry material valves one at a time. This way the valve is
specifically designed to fit your particular application (unlike
companies who may offer you an off-the-shelf valve designed to
handle who-knows-what). Industries served range from plastics,
minerals and chemicals to grain, fibers and foodstuffs.
For more information contact:
Mr. Kevin Peterson Salina Vortex Corporation
3024 Arnold Ave.
Salina, KS 67401-8105
Tel 785.825.7177
Fax 785.825.7194
Email: vortex@svortex.com
Web site: Salina
Vortex
Strengthens
Commitment to US Market
BMH
Chronos Richardson Inc. Relocates US Offices to Dallas
BMH Chronos Richardson, a world-wide
leading manufacturer of Weighing, Batching, Bagging and Palletizing
Systems will relocate its North American Headquarters from
Fairfield, NJ to the facilities of BMH Americas in Dallas, TX during
the next few months. BMH Americas is a provider of engineering and
design services and manufacturing equipment to the Americas cement
industry and globally to the engineered building products industry.
Dr.
Schäfer, Divisional Managing Director of BMH Technologies of
Buxtehude, Germany stated: "The relocation of BMH Chronos
Richardson to the Headquarter of BMH Americas will strengthen our
commitment to the North American customers. BMH Chronos Richardson
will benefit from the resources and expertise available in Dallas.
In addition, this will also reinforce our expansion plans into new
markets."
In June 2000, BMH Chronos Richardson
became a member of the BMH Group company's portfolio which includes
BMH AKI Dryers, BMH Claudius Peters, BMH Wood Technologies, BMH
Marine and BMH S.A. . The integration into the group was very
successful due to the great support and consultancy of the other BMH
companies such as BMH Americas. During recent months BMH Americas
and BMH Chronos Richardson have already began to join forces as
co-exhibitors at events such as the BAUMA Exhibition in Munich and
the Powder and Bulk Exhibition in Chicago.
Rolf Trost, the International Sales
Director for United States, Spain and the Mediterranean countries of
BMH Chronos Richardson Bagging Division, will manage the sales
engineers as well as the customer services and spare part inventory
to maintain fast response time to the customers of BMH Chronos
Richardson. The Batching System Division will continue to be managed
by David Hunter, Sales and Marketing Director Batching Systems.
"...a unique
single-source reference for engineers, managers, and technical
personnel who need to acquire an understanding of the
machinery used in modern process plants"
Process
Plant Machinery
by Heinz P. Bloch, Claire Soares
Hardcover, 512 pages, 2nd edition, 1998
"...covers the theoretical
& practical aspects of the mixing of solids...demonstrates
the state of the art of mixing and segregation technology,
quality control, design of mixers, design scale-up and
engineering of complete processes."
"..comprehensively
covers the various aspects of fluidization engineering and
presents an elaborate examination of the applications in a
multitude of materials processing techniques."
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we should have in the Reading Room? Let me know and we will try to include it!
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old publish or perish is true!) by contributing an article to the Ask Joe! Column.
Horsham PA – A spill prevention,
overfill protection level control system that meets industry
recommended practices has been developed by AMETEK Drexelbrook. The
complete level control package is available as a single-stage
detector system (high-high level detector) or two-stage level
detector (high level and high-high level detector).
The
Drexelbrook package can be provided with two different alarm switch
technologies, RF capacitance and ultrasonic gap switch. Using two
technologies in this spill prevention package adds greater security
to prevent tanks from overfilling. Both switches are loop-powered
for reduced installation cost. The switches are connected to a
receiver, PLC, or DCS system. The Drexelbrook package also provides
Verify™ high-level integrity testing. Verify allows the entire
system to be tested without removing the sensor from the vessel.
Verify simulates an actual high-level condition without having to
raise material level.
Testing of overfill prevention
detectors is imperative. A high or high-high level detector used for
overfill prevention is independent of the tank gauge system. As
such, an overfill detector can be in service for months or years
without actually seeing a high level condition. Verify ensures that
the spill prevention switch is operational when a dangerously high
level occurs. The Verify option can be performed automatically or
manually. A PLC or DCS can be programmed to record the testing event
for validation requirements.
Verify diagnostic circuitry monitors
both the electronic unit and the sensor: it checks the integrity of
the sensor, the operation of the measuring circuit, and the
operation of the alarm output signals. AMETEK Drexelbrook is a unit
of AMETEK, Inc., a leading global manufacturer of electronic
instruments and electric motors with annual sales of $1 billion.
For more information contact: AMETEK Drexelbrook
205 Keith Valley Road
Horsham, PA 19044
Telephone: 800-553-9092 or 215-674-1234
Fax: 215-674-2731
Web site: http://www.drexelbrook.com/
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"Food
Center" Helps Customers
Hosokawa Bepex Earns "Excellent" Rating
from AIB
Hosokawa Bepex was awarded the rating
of “Excellent” by the American Institute of Baking (AIB), a non-
profit corporation dedicated to education and research in the field
of food processing. The Hosokawa Bepex Food Center, serving the food
and nutraceuticals industries, provides customers with a food safe
product development facility. This validation is a key step in their
program of meeting standards to help food processors meet the
challenges of increasing product quality and reducing food safety
risks.
The
Hosokawa Food Center offers its customers custom development and
custom processing for new product development or optimization of
existing processes.
Hosokawa Bepex’s core processing
technologies include agglomeration, compaction granulation and
grain, flour or starch modification. Our Schugi fluid bed continuous
agglomeration system is used for instantizing, improving
dispersibility or the manufacture of tablet ready granulations. The
Hosokawa Bepex brand compaction system is the workhorse of the
industry for dry roller pressing of powders, with controlled
crushing and screening, produces improved flow, density
modification, formulation stability (prevents segregation of
ingredients) and tablet ready granulations.
Hosokawa Bepex is also enrolled in
the In-Plant Food Safety/Hygiene Audit Training Program of the
Department of Safety/Hygiene at AIB. Hosokawa Bepex is demonstrating
its commitment to this important market by becoming and active
participant in validation programs that will allow them to better
serve their customers in this important market.
Hosokawa Bepex, an ISO 9001
registered facility, is a single source provider of integrated
powder and particle processing systems. Its broad base of products
and technologies encompasses size reduction, agglomeration,
compaction, drying, briquetting, thermal processing, blending and
mixing for the food, chemical and polymer markets.
Hosokawa Bepex
333 N.E. Taft Street
Minneapolis, MN 55413
Telephone: 612-331-4370
Fax: 612-627-1444 Web site: http://www.hmicronpowder.com/
Help
Forum
Hot Messages from the Help
Forum
People post their requests for help and offer their
suggestions to others in our open forum.
Mr. Armstrong needs a clean
silo:
I have a 12' dia. x 60' piggy back
silo. We store cross-linked polyethylene (XLPE) material used on
electrical wire. The XLPE fines and volatiles have hydrolyzed onto
the interior surface. Basically it now looks like fiberglass. We
have tried to scrape it off without damaging the epoxy liner, but
the material is etched right into the liner. Need some suggestions
on how to clean without removing the liner if possible.
We are looking for a used homogenizer. If you or your company may
have one for sale. Please let me know or you may also contact Ian
Brandt. His email is ibrandt@albionlabs.com
This
week's homepage photo is of Triple/S Dynamics' Slipstick conveying
cereal in a manufacturing plant. Built in lengths from 4 feet
to 200 feet, the Slipstick horizontal motion conveyor is the most
productive advance in horizontal conveying equipment since the
invention of vibrating conveyors.
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page. If you have a favorite photograph of bulk materials handling at its best, please e-mail us a jpeg or gif of the photo
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to: news@powderandbulk.com
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Dr.
Schäfer, Divisional Managing Director of BMH Technologies of
Buxtehude, Germany stated: "The relocation of BMH Chronos
Richardson to the Headquarter of BMH Americas will strengthen our
commitment to the North American customers. BMH Chronos Richardson
will benefit from the resources and expertise available in Dallas.
In addition, this will also reinforce our expansion plans into new
markets."
