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Powder and Bulk Dot Com Newsletter
"For the materials handling & processing professional...."
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Vol. 2, No. 30, January 31, 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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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!
> Your Company's Ad Could Be Here For Only $100
> A.O. Smith Plans to Sell Engineered Storage Products Group
> Free Small-Business Research Funding Email Alerts
> Top Picks From Amazon.com
> Ask Joe Column!
> Engineering Courses for Piping, Tanks & Pressure Vessels
> We had over 171,000 hits in December!
> Pulse-Jet Filters Collect Carbon Black and Titanium Dioxide
> 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 2nd. 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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Your Company's Ad Could Be Here For ONLY $100
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seen by 1,200+ materials handling and processing professionals.
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A.O. Smith Plans to Sell Engineered Storage Products Group
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MILWAUKEE, Jan. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- A.O. Smith Corporation
(NYSE: AOS) today announced record 1999 earnings from
continuing operations of $50.3 million or $2.11 per share,
a 26 percent increase over last year's earnings of $40.7
million or $1.68 per share.
Record sales from continuing operations for 1999 were $1.04
billion, more than 34 percent higher than 1998 sales of
$775 million.
At the same time, the company announced its intention to
sell its Storage & Fluid Handling Technologies platform,
thus exiting the fiberglass pipe and storage tank
businesses.
"Consistent with the company's strategy to expand its
presence in the electric motor and water heating markets
and to be a consolidator in each of those industries, we
have decided to divest the Storage & Fluid Handling platform,"
according to Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Robert
J. O'Toole.
The Storage & Fluid Handling platform reported 1999 sales
of $118 million, a decline of 18 percent compared with 1998
sales of $142.8 million. Sales were adversely affected by
continuing weakness in the fiberglass, dry storage, and
agricultural markets. The platform generated a loss from
operations equivalent to $.04 per share in 1999, compared
with earnings of $.16 per share in 1998.
The company has booked an after-tax charge in the fourth
quarter of approximately $7 million to cover the anticipated
costs associated with the disposition of the Storage &
Fluid Handling platform. The charge was equivalent to $.29
per share. The combined loss from discontinued operations
was equivalent to $.33 per share for all of 1999.
Sales of $32 million for the fourth quarter were slightly
higher than 1998. The platform broke even in the quarter,
compared with $.02 per share earned in the fourth quarter
of 1998.
The platform consists of two operating companies. Engineered
Storage Products Company, with headquarters in DeKalb, Ill.,
manufactures storage tanks for industrial, municipal, and
agricultural applications. The company's aluminum,
epoxy-coated steel, and glass-fused-to-steel tanks are
used to store a wide variety of liquid and dry materials,
including potable water, waste water, plastics, minerals,
and foodstuffs.
In addition to DeKalb, the company operates plants in
Parsons, Kan., and Winchester, Tenn., and employs
approximately 475 people.
The other operating unit, Smith Fiberglass Products Company,
with headquarters in Little Rock, Ark., manufactures
fiberglass pipe and fittings in sizes ranging from one
inch up to 48 inches in diameter. The company serves the
chemical processing, petroleum production, and service
station markets.
Smith Fiberglass operates two plants in Little Rock as well
as manufacturing facilities in Wichita, Kan., and Harbin,
China. The division employs approximately 400 people.
Editor's Note: ESPC of A. O. Smith includes familiar
equipment as Peabody TecTank, Aquastore and Harvestore
brands.
For more information visit A. O. Smith's web site at:
http://www.aosmith.com/
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Free Small-Business Research Funding Email Alerts
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Gaithersburg, MD -- (January 19,2000) -- ScienceWise.com, the
B2B Workplace on the Web for science and engineering
professionals, has added a free alert service to deliver
small business research funding opportunities to users via
email.
The Small Business Edition of ScienceWise Alert, the only one
of its kind, provides email alerts of information on funding
opportunities for small businesses, including the federal
Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business
Technology Transfer (STTR) programs. $1.3 billion in SBIR/STTR
funding is provided by ten U.S. federal agencies and is
restricted to domestic companies of less than 500 employees.
Up until now, small business owners had to visit each agency
for the latest information on funding opportunities.
“We wanted to reduce the time and energy spent by scientists
and engineers in learning about small business research
funding opportunities,” said John Rodman, President and CEO
of ScienceWise.com. “ScienceWise Alert already delivers
information on traditional research and education grant
funding opportunities, and federal small business alerts
make the service more comprehensive.”
Funding information for researchers and educators has been
available through ScienceWise Alert for several years, with
opportunities from the federal government, corporations,
and foundations. The Small Business Edition was launched
in December with Defense-related agencies-all others will
be available by January 31.
ScienceWise.com offers two ways to get small business research
funding opportunity information.
At http://www.sciencewise.com/smallbusiness/abalert.htm
you
can build a research interest profile by selecting keywords
from the Grants Keyword Thesaurus (the same thesaurus used
by federal agencies to determine research areas). The profile
can be adjusted to reflect new interests. Every business
day thereafter, ScienceWise will search the federal agencies
and automatically email to users all new and updated small
business-focused funding opportunities that match the
profile provided. A reminder will also be sent about each
opportunity 30 days before proposal deadline.
For more information, visit the Small Business Center at
http://www.ScienceWise.com/smalllbusiness/
Users can search this site for scholarships, find the latest
scientific news, and locate other science sites on the Web
- all for free.
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Top Picks From Amazon.com
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Top picks from Amazon.com this week are:
"Dispersing Powders in Liquids"
(Handbook of Powder Technology, Volume 7)
by Ralph D. Nelson
Hardcover, January 1989
"Materials Handling Handbook (McGraw-Hill)"
by David E. Mulcahy (Editor)
Hard Cover, 768 pages, September 1998
"Plant Layout and Material Handling"
by Fred E. Meyers
Hardcover, January 1993
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
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Engineering Courses for Piping, Tanks & Pressure Vessels
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As part of Carmagen Engineering's commitment to quality
engineering, we will be conducting monthly courses in our
office. Small classes, emphasizing personal, effective,
maximum learning in short blocks of time.
It's not too late to register for our February courses. Each
registrant attends all courses being presented on a given day.
February 8, 2000:
- Course 606: Wind Girder Design Requirements in Accordance
With API 650
- Course 609: Mechanical Design Parameters and Material
Selection for Aboveground Atmospheric Storage
Tanks
- Course 904: Overview of Process Plant Piping System Design
February 9, 2000:
- Course 903: Introduction to Piping System Maintenance
Requirements
- Course 402: Introduction to Pressure Vessel Maintenance
Requirements
A course registration form can be provided via Email or Fax.
Mr. Vincent Carucci
Carmagen Engineering, Inc.
7 Waverly Place
Madison, NJ 07940
Telephone 973-822-3813
mailto:carmagen@mail.idt.net
Web site: http://www.carmagen.com/
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Pulse-Jet Filters Collect Carbon Black and Titanium Dioxide
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Cleveland, OH - January 13, 2000 - A new dust collector has
been successfully employed by a major roof coating manufacture.
The collector handles carbon black, titanium dioxide and
other fine powders vented from banbury-style mixers. Up to
24,000 cfm at an air-to-cloth ratio of 4.5 to 1 is processed.
Because of the fine particle size, high-efficiency Slytex
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Web site: http://www.slyinc.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. Wells needs help with coal and bark:
We are looking for suggestions to keep our coal and bark
handling systems clean with a minimal amount of maintenance
or operations input. We have tried various scrapers but they
all have to much ongoing maintenance associated with them so
they ultimately don't do the job we would like.
We would ideally like something that we could fabricate in house.
It was suggested that we could make some sort of air knife
type rig that we could use that would not contact the belt.
The coal and bark tend to be damp. As the conveyors dry they
shed the dust and fines along the length of the conveyors.
Any suggestions or insights would be quite welcome.
Thanks,
Wayne Wells
mailto:WWELLS@sc.rr.com
Telephone: 803-353-7602
Fax: 803-353-7673
Mr. Kice needs a flow sensor:
I am looking for a flow sensor that can be placed in a gravity
line that will detect the flow rate of a dry product that is
falling in that line (3" line). Any ideas, please email.
Tim Kice
Kice Industries
mailto:timkice@kice.com
Mr. Alsaffar needs help with pumping granules:
Has anyone had any experience of using double diaphragm pumps
to transfer granules? I want to transfer a dry granulated
product, for tableting, at around 600 kg/hr. a distance of
about 5 meters. Currently we use a vacuum transfer system which
takes forever to set-up and clean.
My main worry is that the granule will be damaged in the
diaphragm pump resulting in excessive fines at the tableting
stage. Has any one tried it?
Layth Alsaffar
Eli Lilly & Company
mailto:layth.a@lilly.com
Telephone: +44 (0) 1256 315000 Ext. 2092
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 a big bag feed system with an
expanded outlet to ensure a clean discharge from the end of
the screw. Photo courtesy of Mr. Lyn Bates, Ajax Equipment Ltd.
Web site: http://www.ajax.co.uk/
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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