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- Press Releases, Show Announcements and Industry News Wanted!
- Monitor Becomes a Powder and Bulk Dot Com Sponsor
- Concentrated Know-How of the Polyester Industry
- Top Picks at Amazon.com
- Ask Joe Column!
- New Comet E-Series Single-Phase Hopper Loaders
- Powder and Bulk Dot Com had over 25,000+ visitors in December!
- SME: The Minerals Marketplace
- Hot Messages from the Help Forum
- Call For Photographs!
- From the Job Fair
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From
the Editor
Hi Everyone,
Happy New Year! We're back and
ready for a great year to come. Indications are that the
market for powder and bulk materials handling gear is turning
around.
Our goal is to provide information to
improve your business by using the resources available on the
Internet.
Industry News, Press
Releases & Announcements Wanted!
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New
Sponsor
Monitor Becomes a Powder and Bulk Dot
Com Sponsor
We are pleased to announce that
Monitor Technologies have become a sponsor of Powder and Bulk Dot
Com.
Monitor
Technologies LLC is a leading supplier of level, flow, particle
emission and aeration instrumentation for the worldwide powder and
bulk solids market. The experience and market knowledge gained over
the past forty years has earned Monitor a reputation for providing
high quality, reliable products.
In addition to offering a full line
of products, Monitor is committed to "setting the standard for
supplier excellence." Dedication to this ideal is documented by
our ISO 9001 certification and shown in the broad range of services
we offer to customers.
For more information, contact: Monitor Technologies LLC
44W320 Keslinger Rd.
PO Box 8048
Elburn, IL 60119
Telephone: 800.601.6302
Fax: 630.365.5646
Web site: Monitor
Technologies
The Open House organized by the
global Buhler Technology Group in December 2001 was a full success:
Specialists from the entire polyester industry met at the Group
headquarters in Uzwil, Switzerland, for a lively exchange of ideas.
All process operations involved in the polyester industry were
discussed: from melting, crystallization, drying, preforming of
blanks, and bottle production to recycling by reclaiming (washing,
sorting and shredding), melting, pelletizing and post-condensation.
Smooth
overall process
It became apparent in the course of
the event that a clearer organization of the interfaces between the
individual process operations would raise overall efficiency and
produce a smoother total process. The concentration of know-how
presented at the event helped suppliers better understand customers’
needs and thereby ensure optimal and consistent quality. The experts
attending the Open House, representing all process stages,
contributed specialist knowledge from various renowned companies
such as Inventa-Fischer, Netstal, Schmalbach-Lubeca, Resilux, Sorema,
PTI and EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne).
Live demonstration at Buhler
In a number of live demonstrations,
Buhler presented its process expertise in the fields of solid-state
polycondensation (SSP) and economic PET recycling – an innovation
from the Buhler Group. The guests were also offered insight into the
extruder and analytical laboratories. An impressive example of an
optimal plant layout was presented in the thermal processes lab. It
clearly proved that Buhler, the leading technology partner, invests
heavily in the future in order to help shape coming trends together
with its partners.
For more information contact:
Mr. Roman Salzmann
Manager Corporate Communications Bühler AG
Telephone: +41 71 955 33 99
Fax: +41 71 955 38 51
Web site: http://www.buhler.com/
The
Reading Room
Top Picks at Amazon.com
.
"The ultimate air
pollution control problem-solver kit. Now you can solve
virtually any air pollution control (APS) problem that
comes..."
"...simply
the best book in this subject on the market today. Other
organizations have tried to compete with this book and failed
to do this complex subject, justice"
"Powder Mixing is unique
in that it explores the relevant physics of the powder systems
including characterization procedures and rheology, and
contains an extensive review of different methods that have
been employed to study the structure of mixtures."
Powder
Mixing
by Brian H. Kaye
Hardcover, October 1997
Thank You!
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!
We Need Your 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.
Easy access and quick cleanup are
some of the features of Comet's E-Series corrosion free, stainless
steel single hopper loader. It is designed to provide rapid
transportation of free-flowing, virgin granules and regrind directly
to your injection molding machine. The hinged vacuum head ensures
quick cleanup time and easy maintenance.
The
integral single-phase suction motor creates a flow of air which
carries the plastic granules into the hopper through the material
line for a pre-selected time. The granules are then discharged
directly into the processing machine hopper. This cycle is repeated
until both the machine hopper and hopper loader are full.
Reliable Performance
All units have a microprocessor
control for setting and displaying loading time, loading function,
and mode selection, digitally. Fault diagnosis is provided as a
standard feature of the control. All models are built to the highest
standards from quality stainless steel providing consistent,
reliable performance. Design Features stainless steel construction,
fabric vacuum filter with stainless mesh backing, low noise vacuum
head, mechanical flap and loader head prepared for future
centralized system.
For more information contact: Comet Automation Systems, Inc.
2220 W. Dorothy Lane
Dayton, OH 45439
Tel USA: 800-328-5088
Tel: 937-296-9166
Fax: 937-296-9069
Email: info@cometauxiliary.com Web site: http://www.cometauxiliary.com
25,000
Visitors!
Powder and Bulk Dot Com
had lots of visitors in December
A
record-breaking, 25,000+ professionals visited
our web site last month!
That's about 1,000 people per business
day! They are looking for equipment and services
you offer! Banner advertising is a great way
to make your company stand out and reach these savvy material handling pro's.
Free Listings
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SME: The Minerals Marketplace
SME Annual Meeting and Exhibit
February 25-27, 2002
Phoenix, Arizona
The 2002 SME Annual Meeting and
Exhibit is the premier forum for the minerals industry and the ideal
way to reach leaders and decision makers.
With
over 5000 attendees annually, the SME exhibit has become one of the
largest annual exhibits in North America. The SME meeting has
established a quality mix of technical programs and timely exhibits
that bring together top industry decision makers each year to
advance mineral operations, policies, skill and procedure. SME
attracts influential and involved professionals who are dedicated to
the minerals industry.
The SME exhibit provides a rare
opportunity to showcase your equipment, technology or service to all
of your prime prospects in one place at one time.
Do You Know...?
Exhibitions are the #1 source for
people who make final purchasing decisions!
Exhibitions are used more in the
selling process than any other marketing tool.
Exhibitions are less expensive
than field sales calls for meeting with prospects!
Why Do Executives Attend SME Annual
Meetings?
Because SME is the defining event
in the minerals industry - it's important for them to attend.
Because SME is one of the best
venues for them to see what's new, in one place.
Because at SME they can see the
full range of minerals industry technology, and discover the
best ways to increase productivity and lower operating costs.
Because of the increasing move to
long-term user-supplier relationships, top management comes to
SME where they can meet and assess suppliers - and make
judgments about reliability, responsiveness, and service.
For more information contact: SME, Inc.
P.O. BOX 277002
Littleton, CO 80127
Telephone: 303-973-9550 and 800-763-3132
Fax: 303-973-3845
Web site: http://www.smenet.org/
Help
Forum
Hot Messages from the Help
Forum
People post their requests for help and offer their
suggestions to others in our open forum.
Mr. Rosenthal needs
granulating:
How does one determine the most
suitable and economic method of granulation needed (for a given API)
in the pharmaceutical tableting process?
(Click
here to post a reply)
Mr. Love needs design info on
pneumatic conveying:
I'm looking for design
info on pneumatic conveying to size the tubing. What's the ratio of
air/solids (plastic pellets 55 pcf) required for conveying? I will
be using a high pressure blower (8-12psi) & convey at 4500 fpm.
(Click
here to post a reply)
This
week's homepage photo is of the MARS, Metal Automated Removal
System, that automatically removes all types of tramp metal
from bulk conveyors without stopping the belt.
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 e-mail 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: news@powderandbulk.com
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"...simply
the best book in this subject on the market today. Other
organizations have tried to compete with this book and failed
to do this complex subject, justice"
