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Powder and Bulk Dot Com Newsletter
"For the materials handling & processing professional...."
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Vol. 2, No. 33, February 21, 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
currently sent to 1,316 materials handling professionals at
the time of this mailing. Unsubscribe instructions are at
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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, Atlantic Coast Crushers
> ACHEMA 2000 - Record Number of Exhibitors Expected
> New Level Sensors Designed for Conductive Liquids
> Top Picks From Amazon.com
> Ask Joe Column!
> GE Plastics, Milltronics Enter Marketing/Sales Agreement
> We had over 14,000 visitors in January!
> Seminar on Innovative Project Management & Trends (PMT' 2000)
> 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 23th. 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:
Click here to submit a press release
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New Sponsor, Atlantic Coast Crushers
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We are pleased to announce a new sponsor for Powder and Bulk
Dot Com:
Atlantic Coast Crushers designs, manufactures and sells size
reduction machinery for use in the manufacturing industry.
They specialize in machines that use impact to break apart
chunks, lumps and agglomerations. Products include crushers,
shredders and lump breakers.
For more information contact:
Mr. Jim Herdman
Atlantic Coast Crushers, Inc.
128 Market Street
Kenilworth, NJ 07033
Telephone: 908-259-9292
Fax: 908-259-9280
mailto:herdmanj@gocrushers.com
Web site: http://www.gocrushers.com/
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ACHEMA 2000 - Record Number of Exhibitors Expected
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May 22-27, 2000 - With almost 4,000 exhibitors from all the
continents of the world and a quarter of a million visitors
from more than 100 countries, ACHEMA will set the standard
again in the year 2000 and present future trends in the process
industries. The process industries - in addition to the chemical
industry, the biotechnology industry, the pharmaceutical
industry, the food industry, environmental technology,
materials technology and the energy industry - have been
affected more than any other field by changes caused by
globalization.
This means besides huge competition also an increasing demand
for innovation and optimization. This situation creates great
challenges and provides a wealth of opportunities to be taken
at the ACHEMA 2000.
With a record number of bookings a year before the big event,
ACHEMA 2000 is already heading for a new record in terms of
the number of exhibitors. For the first time ever the magical
figure of 4,000 exhibitors (1997: 3,697) should be reached.
In fact, already 92% of the available exhibition space
(151,000 sq.m.) at the Frankfurt Fairgrounds has been reserved.
Exhibition Groups - ACHEMA topics
- Research and Innovation
- Engineering
- Instrumentation, Control and Automation Techniques
- Laboratory and Analytical Techniques
- Mechanical Processes
- Thermal Processes
- Pumps, Compressors, Valves and Fittings
- Pharmaceutical, Packaging and Storage Techniques
- Industrial and Labor Safety
- Materials Technology and Testing
- Literature, Information and Teaching Aids
- Biotechnology
For information concerning ACHEMA 2000:
ACHEMA 2000
P.O. Box 150104
D-60061 Frankfurt am Main
Germany
Dates: May 22-27, 2000
Contact information:
Web site: http://www.achema.de/
Tel.: +49(0) 69 75640
Fax: +49(0) 69 7564 201
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New Level Sensors Designed for Conductive Liquids
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FREMONT, CA -- Scientific Technologies Inc. (STI) introduces
CP36 Series Non-Contact Capacitance Level Sensors. Housed in
an IP54/NEMA4 rated enclosure, CP36 level sensors can detect
either full or empty, and feature an LED status indicator as
well as transistor output.
These compact level sensors are suitable for applications
where a conductive liquid, such as water, is contained in a
non-conductive tank, such as plastic or glass. Examples include
the plating, semiconductor and food processing industries.
CP36 sensors operate on the principal of capacitance. The
sensor forms one side of a capacitor separated by a
non-conductive barrier, typically a plastic walled tank, while
the conductive liquid inside the tank completes the capacitive
circuit. An adjustable potentiometer allows for calibration of
the sensor to accommodate the thickness of different tank walls,
as well as to adjust for the specific dielectric of the medium.
High level and low level detection models are available.
For more information regarding STI's CP36 Non-Contact
Capacitance Level Sensors, contact:
Scientific Technologies Inc.
6550 Dumbarton Circle
Fremont CA 94555
Telephone toll-free: 1-888-510-4357
Overseas: 510-608-3400
Fax: 510-744-1442
Fax Back System: 916-431-6544
mailto:sales@levelandflow.com
Web site: http://www.levelandflow.com/
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Top Picks From Amazon.com
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Top picks from Amazon.com this week are:
"Material Handling Engineering Handbook and Directory,
1997-98"
by Bernard Knill (Editor)
Paperback (1997)
"Batch Control: Practical Guides for Measurement and
Control"
by Eli Nisenfeld, A.E. Nisenfeld, H. Leegwater (Editors)
Hardcover, May 1996
"Particulate Flows: Processing and
Rheology"
by D. A. Drew, D. D. Joseph and S. L. Passman (editors)
Hard Cover, January 1998
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
Web Address for Ask Joe Archive is:
http://www.powderandbulk.com/pb_services/ask_joe_archive/toc.htm
SUBSCRIBE
Subscribe to Joe Marinelli's, Solids Handling Technologies,
monthly newsletter, to subscribe send a blank email to:
mailto:shtech-subscribe@listbot.com
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GE Plastics, Milltronics Enter Marketing/Sales Agreement
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PETERBOROUGH, Ont. – GE Operation Services, a unit of General
Electric Company with headquarters in Pittsfield, Mass., and
Milltronics Ltd., headquartered in Peterborough, Ontario,
Canada, jointly announced that they have entered into a
marketing and sales alliance agreement for remote inventory
management systems.
Under the terms of the agreement, GE Operation Services will
use Milltronics’ level measurement technology in delivering
its new supply chain management service. The agreement provides
for Milltronics and GE to work together to provide remote
inventory vendor management information systems to customers
in markets such as chemicals, plastics, water treatment,
environmental, food, aggregates, mining, and cement.
Based on the initial targeted sales of measurement systems
under the agreement, Milltronics estimates that the relationship
with GE may generate up to $18 million in additional annual
revenues, according to Milltronics’ management team.
GE Operation Services uses Internet distribution of remote
inventory data to provide authorized users with real-time
information for logistics, sales, and manufacturing planning,
to help optimize supply chain processes and to reduce costs.
Milltronics’ President, Dave Bignell said, "This exciting
emerging application will deliver significant benefits to both
industrial suppliers and consumers. The GE-Milltronics agreement
builds on Milltronics' position as a leading supplier of level
measurement instrumentation and GE's strength in business
process consulting and web-based e-commerce."
"This agreement will support our ability to create value in
industries which have heavy costs associated with inventory,"
says Steve Pittman, manager of GE Operation Services. "Our
ability to improve inventory turns and create cash flow is a
key solution provided."
Established in 1954, Milltronics designs, manufactures and
markets sophisticated measurement instrumentation for industrial
use. Its three principal product lines include level measurement,
dry solids flow measurement, and process protection devices.
Milltronics sells its products for use in a wide range of
primary and secondary industries, including the mining,
chemical, manufacturing, food processing, cement, dry bulk
storage terminals and water/wastewater management industries.
GE Operation Services is a global solution provider targeted
at improved asset management and variable cost productivity.
The solutions delivered are based on Six Sigma processes, GE
manufacturing best practices and global remote monitoring and
diagnostics systems.
For further information, please contact:
Jay Pomeroy, GE Operations Services
Telephone: 203-373-3044
Gabor Czegledy, Milltronics Ltd.
Vice-President, Marketing
Telephone: 705-745-2431
Web site:
http://www.sea.siemens.com/ia
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Seminar on Innovative Project Management & Trends (PMT' 2000)
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The knowledge of Project Management Techniques is very essential
to execute any industrial project successfully. The technological
development in India has posed much more responsibilities on
the Project Managers to accomplish the gigantic task of economic
growth within the schedules of time, cost and quality.
Objectives:
To establish need of Project Approach.
To spread Project Management awareness.
To improve skills in Project Management.
To shares experiences on Project implementation in Indian scenario.
This seminar will cover the following aspect of the Project
Management for process, chemical ,metallurgical, construction,
utilities , energy (including renewable), agro-based and other
industrial projects.
PROGRAM
Date: April 21- 22, 2000
Time: 10.00 AM to 5.00 PM
Venue: Hotel Express, RC Dutt Road, Vadodara 390005, India
Nomination Fees: Rs. 2000 (Rs Two Thousand only) per participant.
Fees include professional fees of faculties, administrative
costs, extensive reading material, conference kit, lunch & tea.
However, participants shall have to make their own arrangements
of travel, lodging & boarding.
Expert Faculty: Dr. DB Bhandari: Visiting Faculty - Project
Management, MS University, Vadodara, Mr. N.K. Roy: Ex. GM,
H&G Consultants; Visiting/Expert faculty: IRMA Anand; MS
University , Fac. of Technology, Vadodara, Mr. T. Gopalan: Ex
Chief Engineer, Indl. Eng.& MIS, PDIL and Mr. B. N. Verma: Ex.
Manager, MIS, PDIL
Registration:
Send in the name of participants on your letterhead along with
DD / Cheque drawn in favor of Gramya Research Analysis Institute,
payable at Vadodara, addressed to;
Gramya Research Analysis Institute
Conventions Division
PO Box 4016
8 Manusmriti
14, J.P. Nagar
Old Padra Road
Vadodara- 390015, India.
Telephone: (0265) 338309, 341457
Fax: (0265) 338309, 341457
mailto:grai@pi.zaverchand.co.in
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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. Karanth needs blending software:
Is there is a commercially marketed stockpile blending
and management software?
Bhaskar Karanth
mailto:bkaranth@hatch.ca
Mr. Hasnain needs contract spray drying:
I am interested in getting names of companies in the ASEAN
region who have spare food spray drying capacity especially
for non-dairy creamer.
Raza Hasnain
mailto:razzie@worldnet.att.net
Karen need desiccant for her packaging:
I'm new to product packaging - but I need to find a source
for the little pouch thing that absorbs moisture. Any ideas?
Thanks,
Karen
mailto:Jicama1579@aol.com
The Help Forum is open for everyone to use. Share your
expertise with others, you can find these & other messages at:
http://www.powderandbulk.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl
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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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FIELD SALES REPRESENTATIVE - CHICAGO
Due to growing sales volume, Eriez has an immediate requirement
for a field sales representative in our Chicago District Office
to market all of our products. The position has an attractive
compensation plan, full benefits, company car and paid expenses.
To apply or request additional information, please contact
Christine Ducharme at:
Eriez
Personnel Department
Post Office Box 10608
Erie, PA 16514-0608
Telephone: 814-835-6233
Fax: 814-838-4960
Web site: Eriez
Magnetics 
MATERIALS HANDLING SPECIALIST
Responsible for the design of dry solids processing,
handling, and packaging systems for Hercules facilities.
Provide consultation to the facilities when requested
to provide solutions to operating problems, and to
suggest improvements to their dry solids processes.
Work with Engineering contractors in the design of new
facilities for Hercules. Position includes writing
specifications for equipment, contact with equipment
suppliers for quotations and drawings, and coordination
with other disciplines (e.g. Safety, Estimating,
Structural, Electrical, Instrumentation, etc.).
Position Requirements: BS Engineering (Mechanical,
Industrial, or Chemical) Project or Process Engineering
with 3-5 years experience in dry solids processing,
material handling, and packaging in the chemical
processing industry. Required Travel: 20%
For more information:
Ms. Michelle Levitskie
Hercules Incorporated
1313 N. Market St.
Wilmington, DE 19894
Fax: 302-594-7097
mailto:mlevitskie@herc.com
Web site: http://www.herc.com/
The Job Fair is a free service of Powder and Bulk Dot Com.
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or other talented people you need. ...Or one can post their
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to their staff.
Do you have a position you need to fill, visit the Job Fair:
http://www.powderandbulk.com/jobs_toc.htm
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