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Vortex Mobile
Demonstration Unit hits the road in China
 Salina,
Kansas -- Vortex announces the launch of its new Mobile
Display Unit (MDU) in the People’s Republic of China. Based
out of Vortex’s Shanghai office, the MDU is outfitted with
state-of-the-art valve technology and travels directly to
dry processing facilities throughout Eastern China.
“Vortex’s valve designs are made
to eliminate material leakage, reduce wear, increase service
life, and provide greater maintenance capabilities,”
commented Travis Young, Vice President of International
Business Development. “The Mobile Display Unit provides our
clients with a ‘hands-on’ experience, which facilitates a
greater dialogue on how Vortex can help improve their
processes.”
The MDU showcases a wide range
of Vortex’s innovative dry material handling diverters,
slide gates, and iris valves. The valves are applied in a
wide range of applications, handling fine powders to large
aggregates in pneumatic, vacuum, or gravity flow conveying
systems.
The addition of the Chinese
Mobile Display Unit brings Vortex’s worldwide fleet to a
total of six. Vortex Mobile Display Units travel throughout
North America, Europe, and Asia.
If you are interested in having
a Vortex Mobile Display Unit visit your company, please call
the number in your region: North America: +1-785-825-7177,
Europe: +44 (0) 870 770 9861, Latin America:
+1-785-309-2138, or Asia: +86 (0)21 5835 0100.
For more than 30 years, Vortex
Valves has provided quality Slide Gates, Diverters, and Iris
Valves designed specifically for handling dry bulk solids in
gravity, vacuum, dilute, or dense phase applications. Vortex
Valves are engineered for dependability, durability, easy
maintenance, and offer proven solutions to material handling
and process efficiency problems. With an in-house team of
engineers, Vortex Valves can be completely customized for
individual applications or special installations.
Source:
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Sweco announces the Ecutec KGM
Ball Mill
 Florence,
KY -- Sweco, a business unit of M-I L.L.C., announces the
KGM as the latest in revolutionary ball mills designed by
Ecutec and now marketed by Sweco as a result of the recent
acquisition of Ecutec S.L. headquartered in Barcelona,
Spain.
The
Ecutec KGM Ball Mill has an extremely robust design ideal
for the fine and ultra fine grinding of all types of
minerals and ores. Engineered by Ecutec specifically with
grinding efficiency in mind, the KGM can handle the entire
range of soft, medium or hard products. It can also handle
abrasive products with the appropriate selection of wear
resistant lining and grinding media.
The
KGM has several available installation, outlet and drive
configurations depending on the application and mill size.
Sweco and Ecutec also carry an extensive selection of
specialty grinding media to optimize the performance of the
ball mill specific to the customer’s application. Together
with Ecutec classifiers, the KGM provides a wide range of
finenesses with top cuts down to d98 < 2 μm.
The
KGM is the solution for fine grinding and classification of
a wide variety of materials including, but not limited to
calcium carbonate, dolomite, talc, bentonite, barites, coke,
calcium oxide, aluminum oxide, silica and zircon oxide.
Source:
http://www.sweco.com/
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Smaller yet smarter Material
Handling Systems
 Mountain
View, CA -- As material handling systems enable reduced
inventory levels and improved order to delivery cycles, they
are witnessing increasing uptake. Material handling systems
help companies cope with buying cultures that are in a
continuous state of flux. Whatever the process may be,
material handling plays a crucial role in its overall
success. Internationalization and globalization are
propelling competitiveness and driving the development of
newer and efficient material handling technologies in the
market.
New
analysis from Frost & Sullivan, Advances in Material
Handling Systems, finds that the most common trend in the
material handling industry today is to build material
handling equipment that is smaller yet smarter. Apart from
this, material-handling equipment is being incorporated with
immense electronic intelligence in the form of touch screen
interfaces, distributed control functions that obviate the
need for bulky control panels, upgraded software, and many
more features.
If you
are interested in a virtual brochure for this study, please
send an e-mail to Sarah Saatzer, Corporate Communications,
at
sarah.saatzer@frost.com, with your full name, company
name, title, telephone number, company e-mail address,
company website, city, state and country.
"Once
considered a total in-house operation, material handling is
now being done by third party logistic (3PL) providers,"
notes Technical Insights Research Analyst Menaka S.
"Cross-company collaborations have increased with integrated
supply chains and concurrent movement of goods and
information."
Economic trends and the performance of the construction,
power, and manufacturing sectors are major factors affecting
the dynamics of the material handling systems market. The
developing economies of India and China, in particular, hold
enormous potential for the market owing to the high economic
growth rates and the burgeoning industrial products and
consumer goods sectors. Growth in the thermal power sector
will spike demand in the market for coal handling equipment.
"It is
anticipated that coal demand, primarily for its use in
utility power stations would keep demand levels buoyant,"
elaborates Menaka. "Huge proportions of the mining
industry's operations, such as coal mining, heavily depend
on the use of specialized bulk material handling equipment.
This equipment is primarily meant for moving raw material to
various locations and thereby maintaining operational
efficiency levels."
In
Africa's Richards Bay Coal Terminal (RBCT), a variety of
bulk material handling equipment is used. Apart from the
demand in existing coal plants, a number of new coalfields
in Mozambique, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Zambia and Angola are also
propelling the use of material handling equipment.
The
task of implementing a successful warehouse is posing a big
challenge as it involves a proper balance between a variety
of conflicting objectives including increased picking speed
combined with flexibility, organizational flexibility
combined with effective space utilization, and increased
throughput at decreased labor cost. With the current
economic conditions, many companies are deferring
investments and following a wait-and-watch approach. Others
are working toward actively pursuing lean practices,
continuous improvement, and just-in-time production systems.
"In
order to reduce complexity in material handling operations,
warehouses are deploying integrated warehousing that is
capable of handling thousands of varieties of stock keeping
units (SKUs), while reducing the overall complexity in
customer delivery and distribution," says Menaka. "The
resultant complexity in market segmentation has also
enhanced the need for stringent tracking and tracing of
product movement, which is also effectively done through the
deployment of handling equipment."
Going
forward, green initiatives are poised to pick up steam in
the material handling industry. Industrial practitioners are
displaying a preference for environmentally responsible
material handling systems that reduce emission levels and
produce less noise. To ensure greater uptake of material
handling systems, new technologies must be developed to
ratchet down costs and improve ROI. Greater investments in
research and development, and faster innovation rates are
utmost necessities for the industry.
Advances in Material Handling Systems, a part of the
Technical Insights subscription, provides an insight into
material handling technology, its purpose, features and
benefits. Further, this research service includes detailed
technology analysis and industry trends evaluated following
extensive interviews with market participants.
Technical Insights is an international technology analysis
business that produces a variety of technical news alerts,
newsletters, and research services.
Source:
http://www.frost.com/
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Bulk Bag Loss-in-Weight Batching
System by 3Sigma
 Charlotte
NC -- This system is designed to be dust tight and virtually
maintenance free. A bag access chamber, fitted with an
automatic clamping system, ensures operators are not exposed
to even the dustiest products.
The GeoMate™ feeder batches
product in a pulseless fashion to the conveyor below. The
GeoMate feeder is ideally suited to batching applications
due to the high frequency output at both the fast and
dribble modes of operation, which eliminates the “plopping”
associated with screws.
Batching accuracy to + 0.05% is
achieved. The GeoMate feeder is unmatched in reliability as
it operates with no moving parts and comes complete with an
unmatched 2-year warranty.
As an innovative supplier of bulk
solids handling equipment and batching systems, our goal is
to help you meet your needs in the most efficient manner
possible. Although our specialty is batching and compounding
systems we offer a variety of bulk solids handling equipment
and have developed a number of industry specific solutions.
Source:
http://www.3sigma.biz/
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:: Vortex
Mobile Demonstration Unit
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Sweco announces the Ecutec
KGM Ball Mill
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Smaller yet smarter Material
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