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Powder and Bulk Dot Com Newsletter
"For the materials handling & processing professional.."
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Vol. 1, No. 4, July 26, 1999
International Standard Serial Number (ISSN): 1526-9051
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Joseph Taylor, Editor, mailto:jtaylor@powderandbulk.com
Copyright 1999, Powder and Bulk Dot Com
This is a 100% opt-in newsletter with information for the
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Our goal is to provide information you can use to improve
your business by using the resources available on the
internet.
Please forward this newsletter to one of your friends,
Thanks, Joe Taylor
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Contents:
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> Contributors Wanted!
> Carpco Has A New Laboratory Equipment Catalog
> Your Top Picks From The Reading Room
> Columbia-Okura Offers Hybrid Robotic Palletizing
> Ask Joe Column!
> Banner Ads on Powder and Bulk Dot Com Work!
> Hot Messages from the Help Forum
> Call For Photographs!
> Search Engines Index Less Web Pages !
> From the Job Fair
> Subscribe & Unsubscribe Information
> ReferWare
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Contributors Wanted!
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Contributors make this newsletter better. Do you have
company news, a new product, a new service or other
information you would like to share with our subscribers?
If so please send it to,
mailto:news@powderandbulk.com
We give full credit to contributing authors.
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Carpco Has A New Laboratory Equipment Catalog
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Carpco, the newly acquired division of Outokumpu Technology,
Inc. has issued a new laboratory equipment catalog. The
52-page catalog features:
-Sampling Equipment
-Sample Preparation Equipment
-Gravity Separation Equipment
-Electrostatic Separation Equipment
-Magnetic Separation Equipment
-Froth Flotation Equipment
The catalog is full color and includes photographs of the
different separation machines in action. New to the catalog
are a line of superconducting magnetic separators for
laboratory use.
The complete catalog can also be found on-line. You can have
a copy of the printed version of the catalog by requesting
it at Carpco's web site.
For more information contact:
Julie Holloway
Outokumpu Technology, Inc.
Carpco Division
Phone: 904-353-3681
Email: mailto:labsales.carpco@outokumpu.com
....or visit the catalog's web site at:
http://www.carpco.com/laboratory
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Your Top Picks From The Reading Room
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We receive weekly traffic reports from Amazon.com for the
Reading Room. The one striking thing is that our visitors love
technical books over popular literature. (Who would have guessed
that!) Those looking for new technology information outnumber
people who browsed the New York Times Best Sellers list 20 to 1.
Your top three books from the Reading Room are:
"Materials Handling Handbook (McGraw-Hill)"
by David E. Mulcahy (Editor)
Hard Cover, 768 pages, September 1998
"Powder Technology Handbook"
by K. Gotoh, H. Masuda and K. Higashitani (Editors)
Hard Cover, 2nd Edition
"Batch Control: Practical Guides for Measurement and Control"
by Eli Nisenfeld, A.E. Nisenfeld, H. Leegwater (Editors)
Hardcover, May 1996
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!
You can visit the Reading Room and view the selections we
have made for you at:
http://www.powderandbulk.com/pb_services/readingroom.htm
Joe Taylor, Editor
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Columbia-Okura Offers Hybrid Robotic Palletizing
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Columbia-Okura announces hybrid palletizing. This innovation
achieves the high speeds of traditional palletizing, while
utilizing less space.
Hybrid palletizing uses a combination of traditional and robotic
techniques to gain the unique benefits offered by both. The
system uses conventional pallet dispensers and row formers,
when combined with robotic palletizing, allows for high-speed
product handling in existing production areas.
For more information contact:
Mr. Dick Sampson
Sales Manager
Columbia-Okura
301 Grove Street
Vancouver, WA 98668
Phone: 360-735-1952
....or visit Columbia-Okura's web site at:
http://www.columbiaokura.com/
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Ask Joe Column!
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What's the difference between uncooked and cooked feathers?
Find out in this week's Ask Joe! Column by John Stoltzfus
of J. S. Machines. His article is entitled "Cooked Feathers,
Cooked the Conveyor!"
You can read John's tortured tail at:
http://www.powderandbulk.com/pb_services/askjoe.htm
Ask Joe Archive
Many of you have asked to read the past ramblings of Joe
Marinelli and articles from our guest authors. You asked for
it, so here it is, the Ask Joe Archive. Articles are listed
chronologically by the year and month it appeared.
Web Address for Ask Joe Archive is:
http://www.powderandbulk.com/pb_services/ask_joe_archive/toc.htm
Guest Articles
Do you have an area of expertise in bulk materials
....or have you solved a difficult materials problem?
Share your knowledge with others by contributing an article
to the Ask Joe! Column. We welcome guest articles in the
Ask Joe! Column.
If you have a 400-500 word article and illustrations in the
form of .jpg or .gif files send it to us.
For more information, please contact Joe Marinelli at
his email address,
mailto:shtech@fmtc.net
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be supporting a unique and valuable resource that is well
regarded in the bulk materials handling community.
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In addition to banner advertising, all sponsors are recognized
on our home page with an additional link to their web site.
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mailto:powderandbulk@powderandbulk.com
.....or visit our banner ad sign-up page at:
http://www.powderandbulk.com/pb_services/bannerads.htm
.....or call Joe Taylor at 904-280-4656
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Hot Messages from the Help Forum
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It's been a busy week in the Help Forum and we have a number
of interesting postings to share with you!
The On-Line Materials Handling Help Forum is one of our
busiest pages. People post their requests for help and offer
their suggestions to others in an open forum.
Mr. Diego Pinto of Ecuador needs a sugar feed system
"We need to contact a fabricator of sugar feed systems, can
you help us? Our problem is: to transport 500 kg/day of
sugar(grain) from level 0 to level 7 meters and run about
20 meters.
We need to know what is the best system."
Regards,
Diego Pinto
Ecuador
Tel: 011-593-9-553-235
Fax: 011-593-2-414-795
Alternative Fax 011-593-2-394-267
mailto:dpm@uio.satnet.net
Mr. Rallison of International Specialty Products:
"I am looking for manufacturers of drum (30 & 55 gallon) dump
stations. The product in the drum is a very fine, dry, powder.
The drum needs to be loaded into a metal tote. I need to
transfer the product with no dusting. I can vent the tote."
mailto:rallison@ispcorp.com
Peter Wentworth in Illinois is looking for a screw conveyor:
"Would anyone happen to know where I could locate rather small
vertical screw conveyers? (roughly 1 cm. dia. by 25 cm. height).
Many Thanks,
Peter Wentworth
mailto:wentwrth@mtco.com
Malcolm Buck of the UK needs help with a Hogan feeder:
"Hi all, I'm looking for the manufacturer's address/tel number
etc. for a device called Hogan vibratory bin-discharger/feeder.
Please email me. "
Thanks,
Malcolm Buck
mailto:mbq@office.chirex.co.uk
Joe Finn is looking to handle aluminum-foil trims:
"I am looking for ideas on transferring chopped foil from the
bottom discharge of a cyclone to an adjacent briquetter - there
is a height limitation, so we are considering use of a mechanical
conveyor. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Is there a suggested ratio for CFM to pounds of material conveyed
to use in sizing trim removal ductwork?
I would like to receive information on trim system equipment such
as choppers, trim MH fans, balers, briquetters, air separators.
Please advise your web site address and I will examine and reply."
Thanks for your help,
Joe Finn
mailto:ubasuccess@yahoo.com
Phone: 336-681-0840
eFax: 630-604-8640
Can you offer assistance? If so, please feel free to contact
them directly at their email address.
The Help Forum is open for everyone to use and is located at:
http://www.powderandbulk.com/default.htm
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Call For Photographs!
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We would like to thank Mr. Richard Hollman of United Conveyor
Corporation for supplying the photograph currently appears on
our home page. The photo is of two submerged flight conveyors
serving to remove "clinker" or bottom ash material from electric
generation boilers in China. The two conveyors lift the clinkers
up and into a roll crusher. The crushed "clinkers" are then
conveyed to dewatering bin.
We would love to have your photo of a bulk materials process,
packaging, conveying or handling situation for our home page.
If you have a favorite action shot 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 in
the image tag under the photo! An image tag is the message
that pops up when one passes their mouse pointer over the
image on the web page.
Photographs will be changed every two weeks to give everyone
a chance to be included. Also, there is talk that we may
archive photographs with full-text description, photo
credit and a hot link to the photograph's owners home page.
Send your photograph and description to,
mailto:news@powderandbulk.com
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Search Engines Index Less Web Pages !
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Studies show that the extent to which search engines can index
the web is dropping. A 1998 study by NEC Research Institute
found that 33% of the Web was indexed by search engines but
the 1999 numbers have dropped to one sixth of the Web!
So who has the most indexed web pages available for searching?
Search Engine: Percentage of All
Web Pages Indexed:
Northern Light 15.5 %
Snap 15.5 %
AltaVista 15.5 %
HotBot 11.3 %
Microsoft 8.0 %
Infoseek 8.0 %
Google 7.8 %
Yahoo! 7.4 %
Excite 5.6 %
Lycos 2.5 %
Euroseek 2.2 %
How long does it take for a site to be indexed?
The study found on average it takes 4-6 months to be indexed
by a search engine. It was suggested that the cost of
maintaining larger databases is why search engines have
relatively low indexing figures.
As a footnote for you junior webmasters (me included!) out
there, you can check how many pages of your web site, or
for that matter anyone else's, are indexed on Altavista's
and Infoseek's search engine. Try typing this into the
search window, rather than putting in a keyword.
Type in: url:www.yourwebaddress.com
or url:yourwebaddress.com
The result will the number of your web pages that are indexed
on that search engine. You might be surprised by the results.
Also, you can check to see how many other pages are linked
to your home page Just change the "url:" to "link:"
Type in: link:www.yourwebaddress.com
or link:yourwebaddress.com
The results from this search will be a list of the web pages
that refer to that exact page, in this case your home page
The more popular the web site, the more links go to it.
We checked www.powderandbulk.com on Altavista and Infoseek
with the following results:
Altavista
Powder and Bulk Dot Com has 346 pages indexed by Altavista
and 613 pages have hyper-links to our site!
Infoseek
Powder and Bulk Dot Com 191 pages indexed by Infoseek
and 423 pages have hyper-links to our site!
Have fun!
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From the Job Fair
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The Job Fair is a free service of Powder and Bulk Dot Com.
You can post job opening for engineers, sales, reps or other
talented people you need. Or one can post their resume for
companies who are looking to add talented people 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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Joseph Taylor, Editor
3948 South Third Street
Jacksonville Beach, FL 32250
Phone: 904-280-4656, Fax: 904-273-1399
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