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Powder and Bulk Dot Com Newsletter
"For the materials handling & processing professional...."
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Vol. 2, No. 32, February 14, 2000
International Standard Serial Number (ISSN): 1526-9051
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Joseph Taylor, Editor, mailto:jtaylor@powderandbulk.com
Copyright 1999-2000, Powder and Bulk Dot Com
This is a 100% opt-in newsletter with news and information
for the materials handling professional. The Newsletter is
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NEW SERVER
We have moved both of our web sites to a new server over the
past week or so. Some of you may have been unable to connect
with Powder and Bulk Dot Com or Water and Waste Water Dot Com
during this transition. Fear not, we are still here.
One casualty of the move was the Help Forum and Job Fair. We
lost all our current postings in these. If you had posted a
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Our goal is to provide information to improve your business
by using the resources available on the internet.
Thanks,
Joe Taylor
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Contents:
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> Press Releases, Show Announcements and Industry News Wanted!
> New Sponsor, Accutron Technologies
> Cascade Chute Helps Cement Maker Keep Within EPA Guidelines
> AGRA Cogenex Signs Master Energy Services Agreement with DuPont
> Top Picks From Amazon.com
> Ask Joe Column!
> Buhler Forms Long-term partnership with Continental
> We had over 14,000 visitors in January!
> New Gravimetric Blender for Non Free-Flowing Materials
> Hot Messages from the Help Forum
> Call For Photographs!
> From the Job Fair
> Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Sponsorship & Archive Information
> ReferWare
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Press Releases, Show Announcements and Industry News Wanted!
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Do you have company news, a new product, new service or other
information you would like to share with our subscribers?
We give full credit to contributing authors.
Deadline for the next issue is February 16th. Please try to
submit articles via email. If you have photographs to be
included with article, post the photo on your web site and
include the URL of the photo with your article. (Though we
do want "action-shots" for our home page!)
mailto:news@powderandbulk.com
...or visit our news and information submission page at:
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New Sponsor, Accutron Technologies
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We are pleased to announce a new sponsor for Powder and Bulk
Dot Com, Accutron Technologies, Inc.
Accutron manufacture of precision Stiletto-type, screw and
weigh-belt feeders for batching of powders and bulk solids.
They offer complete turnkey systems that feature their patented
controller. For more information about Accutron and their
products/systems contact:
Mr. Andy Nix
Accutron Technologies, Inc.
3556 Centre Circle
Fort Mill, SC 29715
Telephone: 803-548-4101
Fax: 803-548-4141
mailto:sales@accutechinc.com
Web site: http://www.accutechinc.com/
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Cascade Chute Helps Cement Maker Keep Within EPA Guidelines
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PEBCO Inc. of Paducah, Kentucky has entered into an agreement
with Cleveland Potash of England to manufacture and sell the
Cleveland Cascade Chute in North and South America. As a part
of this agreement, PEBCO has purchased all the patent rights
to the Cleveland Cascade Chute in these territories.
The Cleveland Cascade Chute has enabled Lafarge Corporation
in Grand Chain, Illinois to successfully load finished cement
into barges within EPA guidelines.
Lafarge personnel visited chute manufacturers in North America
and Internationally. Innovation within Lafarge has kept Lafarge
competitive on the world-wide cement market.
The system at Lafarge/Joppa features a dual Cascade Chute
arrangement. The finished cement discharges from the weigh
bin - onto dual airslides - to our dual Cascade Chute
arrangement - into open top barges. Each chute handles 300
tons per hour - loading 600 tons per hour into the barge.
The Cascade Chute system includes dual material probes, load
cell system, pneumatic & electric hose reels, and special
adapter cement skirts.
How It Works
The truncated, oppositely-inclined cones, supported by straps
and covered by a wind shroud, enable material to be loaded in
mass flow at low velocity. In this way, the bulk particles
remain tightly packed together; thereby minimizing the release
of small dust particles. Operating on the principle of mass
flow at low velocity, dust emission is minimized without
recourse to secondary extraction systems, while degradation
and segregation are considerably reduced.
This patented chute has applications in ship, barge, truck,
railcar, and silo loading as well as conveyor-to-conveyor
transfer.
The solution to the loading of cement with the Cascade Chute
culminates a multi-year effort by PEBCO and the chute
inventors - Steve Maxwell and Ian Barnard. According to
Mr. Maxwell, "The two most difficult products to handle are
alumina and finished cement. The Cascade Chute has
successfully handled a diverse range of dry bulk solids
from finished cement and alumina to calcined petroleum coke,
calcined lime, wheat, soda ash, potash, phosphate and
lead oxide"
For further information, please contact:
Mr. W. Edward Barker
PEBCO, Inc.
P. O. Box 7506
Paducah, KY 42002-7506
Telephone: 270-442-1996
Fax: 270-442-5214
Web Address: http://www.pebco.com/
mailto:barker@pebco.com
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AGRA Cogenex Signs Master Energy Services Agreement with DuPont
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TORONTO & LOWELL, MA, - AGRA Cogenex announced today that it
has signed a Master Energy Service Agreement with DuPont Canada
Inc. to develop and implement energy savings programs for all
DuPont Canada sites. Under the agreement, DuPont Canada and
AGRA Cogenex will review all aspects of DuPont Canada's energy
needs, identify ways to save energy costs, and install new
equipment and processes to improve operational efficiencies.
AGRA Cogenex is a 50-50 partnership between AGRA Monenco, a
wholly owned subsidiary of AGRA Inc. (TSE: AGR) of Toronto,
Canada and EUA Cogenex Corporation of Lowell,Massachusetts.
"With this agreement, DuPont Canada expects to increase the
rate at which it will implement economical energy conservation
measures towards its energy reduction goals. Through our
participation in Canadian Industry Program for Energy Conservation
(CIPEC), we will work to leverage our experience and encourage
other industrial companies to accelerate their energy conservation
efforts," says Dave Colcleugh, Chairman, President and CEO at
DuPont Canada.
DuPont Canada is a science company, with 1998 revenues exceeding
CDN$2.0 billion, serving customers across Canada and in more than
40 other countries. Headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario, the
company operates six manufacturing sites and employs more than
3,300 people. For more information about DuPont Canada, please
visit the company's Web site at http://dupont.ca .
For further information:
Mr. David Paterson, Vice President
Investor Relations
AGRA Inc.
Telephone: 905-403-5024
Mr. Peter Chantraine, Manager
Energy and Environment
DuPont Canada Inc.
Telephone: 613-548-5025
mailto:Peter.Chantraine@can.dupont.com
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Top Picks From Amazon.com
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Top picks from Amazon.com this week are:
"Bakery Technology: Packaging, Nutrition, Product Development,
QA"
by Samuel A. Matz
Hardcover, March 1989
"Mineral Processing Technology: An Introduction to the Practical
Aspects of Ore Treatment and Mineral Recovery"
by B. A. Wills
Paperback, 6th Edition, May 1997
"Electrostatic Precipitator
Handbook"
by D. A. Lloyd
Hard Cover, September 1988
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!
Thank you for your continued support of Powder and Bulk Dot
Com and for our Reading Room. You can visit the Reading Room at:
http://www.powderandbulk.com/pb_services/readingroom.htm
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Ask Joe Column!
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GUEST ARTICLES
Do you have an area of expertise in bulk materials, have you
solved a difficult materials problem? You too, can be an Ask
Joe! guest author!
Share your knowledge with others and promote yourself (the
old publish or perish is true!) by contributing an article
to the Ask Joe! Column.
For more information, please contact Joe Marinelli at:
mailto:shtech@fmtc.net
THIS WEEK'S ARTICLE
"Caking of Powders - A Common Process Problem" a guest article
by Mr. Richard J. Farnish, The Wolfson Centre for Bulk Solids
Handling Technology
You can read Richard's article at:
http://www.powderandbulk.com/pb_services/askjoe.htm
Ask Joe! ARCHIVED ARTCLES
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Buhler Forms Long-term partnership with Continental
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The world's leading supplier to the automotive industry,
Continental, relies on a long-term partnership with the global
Buhler Technology Group.
The company has signed a contract with Buhler for the
production plant it has acquired from Matador in the Slovakian
town of Puchov. Buhler will supply an installation for the
handling of beaded carbon black for the production of tires.
The system's handling capacity is about 20 metric tons per
hour across a conveying distance totaling 150 meters.
The installation includes a receiving section for materials
delivered by tankers and the conveying system from the
storage bins to the downstream day bins of the production
lines. The Fluid-Schub-Flex system applied allows gentle
material conveying without generating dust. The installation
will go on stream in mid-2000.
Buhler is the global technology partner for efficient production
systems, engineering solutions and the associated services in
the rubber industry and in the fields of chemical process
engineering, food processing and die casting.
For further information, please contact:
Mr. Roman Salzmann, Manager
Corporate Communications
Bühler AG
CH-9240 Uzwil
Switzerland
Telephone ++41 71 955 33 99
Fax: ++41 71 955 38 51
mailto:roman.salzmann@buz.buhler.ch
Web site: http://www.buhler.ch/
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New Gravimetric Blender for Non Free-Flowing Materials
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The Comet Exact-A-Batch Gravimetric Blender MP is a gravimetric
blender, which can meter not only pellets, but non free-flowing
powders.
The unit operates similar to the standard Exact-A-Batch
Gravimetric Blender, except that it has been retrofitted with
a patented non free-flowing powder dispenser. The free-flowing
pellets are dispensed into the scale by a fast acting reliable
pinch valve. The pinch valves eliminate wear and jamming
problems commonly associated with slide gate gravimetric units.
This new unit can meter up to 2 free-flowing components and 2
non free-flowing components in this particular design. Many
processors need blowing agent, foaming agent, UV stabilizers,
flame retardant, and pigments metered into their gravimetric
blender; the non free-flowing dispenser makes processing these
additives possible.
Other Features:
Accuracy of 1/10 of 1% of requested ratio is routinely achieved.
This accuracy can be maintained on each ingredient from batch
to batch because of the Real Time Live Scale (RTLS). The live
scale weighs each ingredient as it is deposited into the scale
hopper. This eliminates the need for "snapshot" weighing which
is prevalent in other units.
"Snapshot" weighing means as each batch is processed, the computer
looks at weights dispensed and corrections are made to following
batches. This results in "hunting" and inconsistencies from
batch to batch. The Comet pinch valves and control eliminate
the "hunting".
Optional multi-task microprocessor control panel with touch
screen provides central communication using an IBM compatible
computer to communicate with one or many blenders.
This new gravimetric blender can be utilized for central
blending or individual machine applications.
Model EAB-2105-MP with standard controls, costs $10,500.
For more information contact:
Comet Automation Systems, Inc.
2220 W. Dorothy Lane
Dayton, OH 45439
Telephone USA: 800-328-5088
Telephone: 937-296-9166
Fax: 937-296-9069
mailto:info@cometauxiliary.com
Web site: http://www.cometauxiliary.com/
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Hot Messages from the Help Forum
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People post their requests for help and offer their suggestions
to others in our open forum.
Mr. Ferrio needs an automatic filling system:
For our laboratories, we're interested in a system with the
following abilities:
- Automated filling of vials with powder material but...from
many different source samples (1 to 5g of powder. We must take
little amounts of sub-samples (about 1mg+/- 0.1, knowing exact
weight). All the weighted sub-sample must be placed and packaged
into small tin capsules, air-free. All the elements in contact
with the powder must be cleaned every new sample
We've been searching for something like this, but usually the
systems that could be used for automated vial filling must use
a large amount from the same bulk material.
Is there any system like this? If not..why not? Is due to
technical or economical problems ?
Thank you for your help,
J. Pitter Ferrio Díaz
Dept. Biologia Vegetal
Unitat de Fisiologia Vegetal Facultat de Biologia
Universitat de Barcelona
Diagonal 645
C.P. 08028 BARCELONA (SPAIN)
Telephone: +34 93 402-14-63
Fax: +34 93 411-28-42
http://www.ub.es/
mailto:jferridi7@bio.ub.edu
Amat needs help with pneumatic conveying:
We are in process of debottlenecking our PP pellet pneumatic
conveying system. The system is designed for air temp. of
100 degrees C at pellet pickup point. Presently we are
operating at 55 degrees C.
Can we reduce the line pressure drop and hence increase
conveying capacity by increasing the air temperature? Can
anyone inform any web site where I can get design principles
of pneumatic conveying system.
Thanks & Regards,
Amit
mailto:amit@tpc.com.sg
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Call For Photographs!
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This week's photograph is of perfectly triple-stacked,
palletized bags that are "stretch-hood" sealed on 5 sides
and protected from the elements. These units can be stored
out in the rain or snow.
Photo courtesy of Mr. Bob Drasner, Packaging Equipment Specialists:
Web site: http://www.packagingspecialists.net/
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.
Photographs are be changed every two weeks to give everyone
a chance to be included.
Send your photograph and description to,
mailto:news@powderandbulk.com
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From the Job Fair
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SALES DEVELOPEMENT MANAGER WANTED
K-Tron Hurricane is looking for an experienced vacuum conveying
specialist to develop sales of the Hurricane range across North
America and Latin America. The work will involve support to an
existing sales network plus building of additional outlets.
For more information contact:
Pat Daniels
K-Tron America
Routes 55 & 553
P.O. Box 888
Pitman NJ 08071-0888
Telephone: 856-589-0500
Fax: 856-589-8113
mailto:pdaniels@ktron.com
Web site: K-Tron
International 
MANAGER, MARKETING & NEW BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
Tecnetics Industries, manufacturer of Tecweigh brand gravimetric
and volumetric feeders, has an opening for a senior-level
position reporting to the President.
This position will be responsible for new product development,
market research, and sales into new markets - domestic and
international.
Candidates must have a college degree and 5+ years of
experience in the bulk material handling industry. Sales
management experience through a Rep organization preferred.
Salary commensurate with experience, plus bonus based on
achievement of corporate goals.
Please contact:
Ms. Judy Ehlert
Tecnetics Industries, Inc.
1811 Buerkle Road
St. Paul, MN 55110
Telephone: 651-233-1943
Fax: 651-777-5582
mailto:jehlert@tecweigh.com
Web site: http://www.tecweigh.com/
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or other talented people you need. ...Or one can post their
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to their staff.
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