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ACS Valves Becomes a Powder and Bulk
Dot Com Sponsor
We are pleased to announce that ACS
Valves has become a sponsor of Powder and Bulk Dot Com.
ACS
Valves designs and manufactures rotary airlock valves for a diverse
range of industries. ACS products include valves for pressure
or vacuum pneumatic conveying and feeding of all types of
materials. They have special designs for abrasive and
hard-to-flow materials.
ACS's custom machine and fabricating
shop of 25,000 sq. ft. is engaged in general machining and
fabricating, design and manufacture of various valves, custom
equipment and hard chrome plating.
New Quad Batching Systems Optimizes
Bagging Operations
ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 14,
2003--New patent pending automatic quad batching systems from
Gainco, Inc. are the answer for fast, accurate retail bulk
packaging.
They're
the perfect solution for improving high-speed batching, weighing and
distribution of leg quarters, drums, wings, boneless breasts,
bone-in or boneless thighs fed directly from the production line.
Completely engineered and built in
the USA, these systems will optimize the efficiency and
cost-effectiveness of your batching operation. Product is
automatically directed to weigh hoppers, reducing operator stress.
The quad batching system design requires only two operators to
handle up to 24 batches per minute. Moreover, the system can feed
both wicket wizard and Cryovac bagging systems.
Fully programmable batching
operations can accommodate a wide range of different parameters,
such as weight, batch weight, batch count, rate and percent. The
equipment is designed to handle almost any poultry portion size -
including bone-in or boneless products - either fresh or frozen.
Effortless program setup procedures maximize flexibility and make it
easy to change batching and reporting parameters.
Designed and constructed in sanitary
stainless steel for rugged, dependable performance, weighing
accuracy, and user-friendly interfaces, Gainco quad batching systems
are used for diverse applications, such as batching pieces and parts
into vats, totes or bags, and continuous weighing of product
portions into or out of a specific process. The equipment can
accommodate batching needs ranging from 5 lbs. to 40 lbs.
Other Gainco quad batching system
features include a battery-backed memory for recording the total
number of dumps, the total weight, and all setup parameters.
Versatile controllers provide ease and flexibility in program setup
and operation, while "auto-zero" software automatically
adjusts for any product accumulation on the hopper surfaces, thereby
assuring greater weighing accuracy.
Numerous configurations are
allowable, including a variety of distribution conveyors, product
in-feed conveyors managed by the controller on/off output signal.
"Understanding
this phenomenon enables chemists to carry out reactions more
selectively, make better use of raw materials and simplify
product workup and separation."
"...one
reference devoted exclusively to aboveground storage tanks
(ASTs), this book helps owners and regulators understand the
design, operation, and maintenance of ASTs.."
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October
27-29
WBF Issues Call for Papers For 2003
European Conference
CHANDLER, AZ (Feb 5, 2003) - World
Batch Forum (WBF), a worldwide, non-commercial organization
dedicated to the advancement of batch process manufacturing, is
seeking for presentation at WBF's 2003 European Conference.
The conference will be held at the
Elewijt Center in Mechelen, Belgium (near Brussels), October 27-29,
2003.
WBF conferences attract a community
of dedicated professionals involved in the management, operation and
automation of batch processes. Conference attendees are interested
in learning about new ideas and proven techniques that can help them
improve product quality, increase operational efficiency and reduce
engineering time.
WBF is seeking papers covering the
following areas:
Production management techniques
Automated equipment design
Control of batch process
operations
Process and production automation
Recipe content, format, and
structure
Safety and environmental concerns
Regulatory compliance (Medical,
Environmental, Health and Safety)
Application of industry standards
Evolving technologies
For a paper to be considered for
inclusion, authors must submit brief abstracts by March 14, 2003.
The organization will notify authors of acceptance by May 2, 2003.
PowerPoint presentations and final versions of papers will be due
September 26, 2003.
For paper and presenter guidelines,
submitters should contact Nick Taylor, WBF European program
committee chairman, at +44 1234 342923. ( nick.taylor@emersonprocess.co.uk
) or DeAnn Fedyski at World Batch Forum headquarters,
+1-480-893-8803 ( deann@wbf.org
).
About World Batch Forum World Batch
Forum, established in 1994, is a non-profit, professional
organization promoting the exchange of information on the
management, operation and automation of batch process manufacturing.
Members include end-users, vendors, consultants and academics. Visit
our Worldwide Web site at www.wbf.org
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April
15th
Quality in
Particulate Manufacturing Seminar
More than a third of all
UK process plants involve the handling and/or processing of
poly-disperse particulate solids. Despite significant past efforts
to research aspects of particulate based manufacturing and handling
processes, numerous industrial problems still exist arising from a
lack of operational reliability coupled with variable product
quality. These problems typically arise from one or more of
segregation (particle size and blend components), caking (lump
formation preventing free flow) and degradation (particle breakage).
Seminar Topic
overview
Particle degradation,
segregation and caking are common problems in solids processing
plants. Such problems can result in significant on-costs to
production based materials.
Over the last few years
the Universities of Greenwich and Surrey, in collaboration with six
major UK based processing organizations have, with the support of
the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), been
undertaking a program of research that has the objective of
providing new approaches for addressing these product quality
issues.
The purpose of the
seminar is to present the industrially applicable and significant
findings from this major research activity.
Venue
The venue for this one
day event will be the Greenwich Maritime Campus of the University of
Greenwich.
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on the research work and seminar program, please visit: http://www.qpm.org.uk
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Any suggestions for discharging very
fine material that is 3 to 7 micron particle size and tends to pack
very easily causing a lot of back up in the bag house. I am not sure
if it is caused in the bin itself or on the butterfly valves at the
discharge, the material could be PTFE or various waxes.
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ACS
Valves designs and manufactures rotary airlock valves for a diverse
range of industries. ACS products include valves for pressure
or vacuum pneumatic conveying and feeding of all types of
materials. They have special designs for abrasive and
hard-to-flow materials. 
They're
the perfect solution for improving high-speed batching, weighing and
distribution of leg quarters, drums, wings, boneless breasts,
bone-in or boneless thighs fed directly from the production line.
"...one
reference devoted exclusively to aboveground storage tanks
(ASTs), this book helps owners and regulators understand the
design, operation, and maintenance of ASTs.."
