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Powder and Bulk Dot Com Newsletter
"For the materials handling & processing professional...."
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Vol. 1, No. 9, August 30, 1999
International Standard Serial Number (ISSN): 1526-9051
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Joseph Taylor, Editor, mailto:jtaylor@powderandbulk.com
Copyright 1999, Powder and Bulk Dot Com
This is a 100% opt-in newsletter with information for the
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Our goal is to provide information to improve your business
by using the resources available on the internet.
Please forward this newsletter to one of your friends. (Let
us know about it and you could win a prize! See below.)
Thanks, Joe Taylor
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Contents:
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> Contributors Wanted!
> Sponsor This Newsletter
> Answers for Your "Flexible Connector" Needs
> New Mini-Screener/Sifter
> Increase Our Circulation and Win!
> This Weeks Top Picks From The Reading Room
> New Brochure Highlights Packaging Industry Equipment
> Ask Joe Column!
> We have more hits than you can shake a stick at!
> Hot Messages from the Help Forum
> Call For Photographs!
> From the Job Fair
> Subscribe & Unsubscribe Information
> ReferWare
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Contributors Wanted!
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Knowledgeable writers wanted.
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Answers for Your "Flexible Connector" Needs
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Always an issue in the dry material solids handling industry
is "how to find a good flexible connector". One that maximizes
life at a competitive price. Custom Advanced Connections (CAC)
has the experience in providing these connectors to suit your
individual application requirements.
Popular with CAC's customers is a special-made, clear-polyurethane
tubing used in place of traditional corrugated boots and
sewn-sleeves. This tubing is extruded in 100’ rolls, allowing
you the ability to make the "boot-fit-the-plant", as compared to
a corrugated boot where the length is predetermined by the mold's
size. You can cut it to the exact length needed, with no waste and
product-trapping ridges are gone. This tubing offers more
abrasion resistance than gum, neoprene or silicone rubber tubing
and best of all it's clear allowing you to view the product flow.
While the clear polyurethane tubing isn't the answer for all
applications, CAC can solve your application needs with a
wide array of options. We offer rubber boots and tubing made
of different compounds in range of diameters -- in stock, ready
to ship. We sew sleeves and boots out of numerous materials to
allow our customers to specify their boot or tubing needs by
temperature, breathability, chemical resistance and FDA compliance.
For more information, contact:
Mr. Craig Reinhart
Custom Advanced Connections, Inc.
12430 Galveston Road, Bldg. B9
Webster, Texas 77598
Telephone (toll free): 888-810-2666
Outside the United States: 281-286-6161
Fax: 281-286-6464
mailto:cac@ghg.net
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New Mini-Screener/Sifter
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Great Western Manufacturing has recently introduced the Model
611 Mini to meet the needs of new and existing customers for
a smaller-capacity unit. The 611 Mini has a net sieving area
of 9 square feet. The new unit complements the larger Model
611 with a net sieving area of 18 to 32 square feet, and the
Model 631 with a net sieving area of 35 to 62 square feet.
According to Bob Ricklefs, General Manager, of Great Western,
"Since introducing the Mini-Sifter a few months ago, our unit
sales have grown steadily. We clearly have filled a need for a
smaller capacity unit."
The concept of in-line sifting itself is a recent advancement
in the milling industry. Great Western's in-line sifters are
unique in that they are engineered to work under pressure. All
the Great Western In-Line Tru-Balance sifters allow direct
insertion into a vacuum or pressure pneumatic conveying line for
the removal of small amounts of oversized impurities from dry,
free-flowing grain, powders and granular materials.
"Our proprietary engineering allows customers to eliminate
costly equipment such as cyclone receivers, airlocks, receiving
hoppers and blowers, which would be required if a standard,
atmospheric-pressure screener were utilized," states Ricklefs.
For more information, contact:
Mr. Bob Ricklefs
Great Western Manufacturing Co., Inc.
P.O. Box 149
2017 S. 4th St.
Leavenworth, KS 66048-0149
Telephone (toll free): 800-682-3121
Outside the United States: 913-682-2291
Web site: http://www.gwmfg.com/
mailto:sifter@gwmfg.com
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Increase Our Circulation and Win!
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We want to pass out a few "honorable mentions" in our circulation
drive to Mr. P. K. Venugopalan of Transtech Systems in India,
Mr. Mike Smith of ITW Gema in Indiana and to Mr. John Griffiths
of Milburn Cement in New Zealand for sending along a few of
their associates emails to us. We have sent invitations to
all of them to join the newsletter mailing list. Had any of
their friends or associates signed up, just one of them, they
could have won last week. Rules are rules.
The circulation drive continues! Had you been able to get just
one, that's right just ONE friend or associate, to sign
up for our newsletter and you confirmed their email address with
us, you would have been our winner last week!
We are doing it again and TRIPLING the prize. This week's
winner will receive a $150 gift certificate from Amazon.com.
You can use the gift certificate to buy books, CD's, electronics,
DVD's or anything else in Amazon's catalog. (Personally,
I'm thinking about a DVD player!)
To enter the contest is easy and the rules are simple:
1-To enter, cut and paste into an email a list of your friends
or associates email addresses and send it to me. We guarantee
to use this list only to verify those who subscribed and
will delete your list at the close of this weeks contest!
Send your entry to mailto:jtaylor@powderandbulk.com
Be sure to tell us how we can contact you if you win. You
know the drill: Name, Company Name, Address, Phone, Fax, etc.
2-Then, the MOST IMPORTANT step, forward this newsletter to
those same friends, intact. Ask them to subscribe so you
can win a prize! (We really hope they like the newsletter,
too!)
3-The prize goes to the person who gets the most friends and
associates to sign up. It is a $150 gift certificate from
Amazon.com which can be used alone or as part of a larger
purchase. Amazon offers gift certificates electronically
(who would have guessed!)or we can have it sent to you by
snail mail (regular mail) at your request. To see what
Amazon offers, click this link to their home page and do a
little "window shopping":
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4-The contest is open all, both International and North American,
who are members of the newsletter at the time this newsletter
is sent out on 8/26/99. You ARE a member, if you received
this newsletter directly from our list server and in the
heading next to your email address it says "(List Member)".
(The contest is open of course to everyone, except Joe Marinelli,
myself, our staff and family members.)
5-The contest closes a week from now, at midnight, 9/1/99,
US Eastern Standard Time.
The last two weeks it would only have taken ONE friend to
sign up for you to win. Who knows, it might take TWO
this week!
We will announce the winner of the contest in next week's
issue and let you know how they are going to spend their
winnings!
Thank you,
Joe Taylor, Editor
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This Week's Top Picks From The Reading Room
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Top picks from the Reading Room this week are:
"Wheat Flour Milling" (American Assn. of Cereal Chemists)
by Elieser S. Posner, Arthur N. Hibbs
Hardcover, February 1997
"Tableting Specification Manual"
by the American Pharmaceutical Association
Paperback, 3rd edition, June 1990
"Powder Mixing" (Powder Technology Series)
by Brian H. Kaye
Hardcover, 1st Edition, October 1997
I have personally bought books from Amazon.com and have sent
books as gifts to friends and family. Amazon has quick delivery
and low prices.
We thank you for your continued support of the Reading Room.
Do you need a book? Can you suggest a book you love, that we
should have in the Reading Room? Let me know and we will
try to include it!
You can visit the Reading Room and view the selections we
have made for you at:
http://www.powderandbulk.com/pb_services/readingroom.htm
Joe Taylor, Editor
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New Brochure Highlights Packaging Industry Equipment
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ERIE, PA — A new six-page, four-color brochure from Eriez
showcases the company’s comprehensive line of equipment for
handling materials and protecting product purity throughout
the packaging industry.
Detailed descriptions accompany photos of the company’s metal
detectors, magnetic separation products and vibration equipment.
Also discussed are the company’s engineering services, problem
solving technical center and next-day shipping program.
For a free copy of literature B-46, contact:
Mr. Keith Jones
Eriez Magnetics
P.O. Box 10608
Erie, PA 16514-0608
Telephone (toll free): 800-345-4946
Outside the United States: 814-835-6000
Fax: 814-833-3348
mailto:kjones@eriez.com
Web site: Eriez
Magnetics 
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Ask Joe Column!
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This week's article is the second article about hopper design
and is called "How Wall Friction Effects Hopper Angles". Read
Joe's ramblings in our featured column, Ask Joe! at:
http://www.powderandbulk.com/pb_services/askjoe.htm
Ask Joe Archive
Many of you have asked to read the past rantings of Joe
Marinelli and articles from our guest authors. You asked for
it, so here it is, the Ask Joe Archive. Articles are listed
chronologically by the year and month it appeared.
Web Address for Ask Joe Archive is:
http://www.powderandbulk.com/pb_services/ask_joe_archive/toc.htm
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Hot Messages from the Help Forum
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VERY busy week in the Help Forum with messages from around
the world. Let's extend a helping hand to our friends.
People post their requests for help and offer their suggestions
to others in an open forum.
Mr. Ernie Pasborg is looking for milling equipment:
We are looking for a reconditioned, medium-size milling equipment
for the following;
1) Production of 2 - 4mm chips, free of dust +-4%, from kaolin
and calcium carbonate (CaCO3) stones of 3" - 6". 2) Production
of powder to mesh size 800-1000mm from the dust by product from
item #1 above. 3) Washing unit to remove sand from item #2
4) Drying unit. 5) Bagger for the powdered finished product.
6) Conveyor for loading chips and bags on the trucks.
Please advise who you recommend that would be best to solve
the above requirement and if you have any literature and data,
please send to the below listed address.
Thanks,
Ernie Pasborg
President
Excalibur Trading Co., Inc.
1269-80th Avenue NE
Minneapolis MN 55432-2043
Phone: 612-784-0342
Fax: 612-784-8027
mailto:excaliburtrading@compuserve.com
Mr. Srinivasan needs help with his fireworks plant:
I am looking for books, literature and internet sources that
can give an idea about pneumatic filling of chemicals into
3 mm to 5 mm ID paper tubes as well dispensing of adhesives
mixed with filler material that are in semi-solid forms.
Can anyone help?
S. Srinivasan
Rajkamal Fireworks [P] Ltd.
Graham Travels Building
50,Police Station Road
Sivakasi-626123
India
Fax: 91-4562-27868
Mr. Zulkipli Ghazali has some silo questions:
I have installed 3 cement silos of 100 m ton capacity each.
I would like to know whether I need to provide explosion
venting to each of the cement silo.
Looking forward to your kind reply,
Zulkipli Ghazali
mailto:zulghaz@tm.net.my
Mr. Seymour needs to unload rail cars:
I need to find a rail car unloader to dump woodchips into
hopper trucks. Can you find companies involved in US?
Regards,
J. W. Seymour, PE
Mill Equipment Company
Phone: 414-763-9101
mailto:SKIPPERCAD@aol.com
Mr. John Griffiths is looking for a lost video:
To make our staff and others using pressure transfer
methods aware of the dangers of working with pressure
vessels, we had been using a video prepared by the Schlumberger
Oilfields Company, Titled "Don't Tease the Tiger", starring
Peter Graves. Although old, it gave very graphic examples
of the effect of mishandling tankers and other pressure
vessels.
I don't know where we originally obtained it, but I guess
Schlumberger made it for their staff who use such vessels
to transfer cement for the drilling mud.
We have lost our copy. It was old and of poor quality but
extremely useful and I would like to obtain another. I have
approached Schlumberger via their web site with no results.
I have tried to find other videos with similar content but,
to-date, have drawn blanks.
The video message was, "even small pressures over large
areas result in tremendous stored forces that, if released
by hammering tanks, fooling with hatches or increasing
pressures beyond design maximums, the explosive forces
involved can easily kill".
Maybe with your contacts, we will be able to find another
such video with the same message. I consider it essential
viewing for people working with pressure tankers.
Regards,
John Griffiths
Milburn New Zealand Ltd.
Box 6040 Christchurch
New Zealand.
mailto:jgriffiths@milburn.co.nz
Mr. Ajaz needs multi-wall bags for hydroscopic powders:
We are a 30 Million USD company operating from India.
Our products include foundry chemicals, steel plant
chemicals and specialty resins.
We have finalized a order for supplying powder form
products to a company in USA. The material is
hygroscopic in nature.
Our customer has asked us to pack the material in multi-wall
paper bags (500 kgs jumbo bags). Indian government does not
levy an import duty on packing material and therefore we
will import the bags for packing.
Please quote your price for these bags on container load
basis, C & F Mumbai. We now look forward to hearing from you.
Regards,
Ajaz,
Ajay Meachem LTD.
72/76 Mundhwa
Near Bharat Forge
Pune 411 036,
India
Fax: 0091-20-672837
Phone: 0091-20-675740
mailto:mail@ajaymetachem.com
Mr. Scott Wilson of Coco Products, Inc. writes:
I am looking for used or possibly new equipment for
compacting coir pith, a peat-like substance from the coconut
husk. This material is becoming a viable alternative to
peat moss.
Bales need to be of pallet size and compressed 3:1.
Currently we are compacting in small bales but we need
to go larger for efficiency of handling by processors who
find small bags a hindrance and bottleneck.
This equipment is already available to the peat moss
industry. We need to make a comparable product. Ideally
this compressed block should be compressed inside a bag
to limit post-compression expansion.
Also, I need a source of bulk bags as well that would be
suitable for this type of compaction. Peat handling systems
use a poly bag approximately 6 mil with UV inhibitors.
I prefer not to re-invent the wheel if someone knows about
this type of equipment. Our thanks, I hope someone can
help.
Scott Wilson
Coco Products, Inc.
P.O. Box 1021
Pace, FL 32571
Phone: 850-994-1125
Fax: 850-994-9834
mailto:coirpith@freent.com
Web site: http://www.cocoproducts.com/
Mr. Ruminski with Metrotect in the UK writes:
What package type is available,that will withstand high
tempreatures, in excess of 210 degrees Celsius?
D. Ruminski
Metrotect Ltd.
mailto:d.ruminski@metrotect.co.uk
Can you offer your assistance? If so, please feel free to
contact our Forum members directly.
The Help Forum is open for everyone to use. You can find
these and other messages at:
http://www.powderandbulk.com/default.htm
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Call For Photographs!
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We would love to have your photo of a bulk materials process,
packaging, conveying or handling action shot for our home page.
If you have a favorite photograph of bulk materials handling
at its best, please email us a jpeg or gif of the photo with
a description of what is in the photo for our home page.
Full credit and the description of the photo will be given in
the image tag under the photo! An image tag is the message
that pops up when one passes their mouse pointer over the
image on the web page.
Photographs will be changed every two weeks to give everyone
a chance to be included. Also, there is talk that we may
archive photographs with full-text description, photo
credit and a hot link to the photograph's owners home page.
Send your photograph and description to,
mailto:news@powderandbulk.com
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