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Newsletter, Issue #1
July 5, 1999
International Standard Serial Number (ISSN): 1526-9051
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Contents:
-Interesting New Industry Web Sites
-We Have a New Bookstore
-Ask Joe Column!
-The Internet
-Hot Messages from the Help Forum
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Interesting New Industry Web Sites:
Buy-Filters Dot Com
Here is a new web site hosted on Yahoo's e-commerce sites that offers
the ability to buy filter cartridges such as Torit-Built and other major manufactures filters directly, online. We added the site to our directory
6/21. The site is well designed and easy to navigate.
Sympatec, Inc. (www.sympatec.com)
This is a German company that we have never heard of until recently.
They specialize in manufacturing laboratory-scale and industrial scale laser-based particle size analyzers with quite a wide operating range.
They are able to detect and measure particles from as small as 0.01
microns to as large as 8,750 microns. Measurement is by laser diffraction and
works on dry powders, cohesive powders, suspensions, aerosols and sprays. They also offer in-pipe samplers for industrial measurements.
Sympatec has sales offices world wide.
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We Have a New Bookstore!
Thanks to all of you that have bought books in our On-Line Reading
Room. Due to the increased demand and the advent of new books for
the materials handling pro, we have expanded our recommended book
list. And we have widened the aisles, too! From our main Reading
Room Directory page you can branch off to specialized pages focusing on:
-Air Quality and Air Pollution Control Books
-Particle Analyzers and Sampling Books
-Batching, Blending, Conveying and Feeding Books
-Engineering Handbooks and References
-Food and Grain Processing Books
-Business, Internet and Science Related Books
-Bagging and Packaging Books
-Pharmaceutical Process Technology Books
-Plastics, Polymers and Rubber Processing Books
-Bulk Materials Processing Books
In total we have added 20-30 newer publications in these areas and
related to bulk materials handling, processing and packaging. We are
also pleased to had added a fun section (all work and no play makes
Jack a dull boy) with the current New York Times Best Sellers List.
The hot fiction book this week is Hannibal, of "Silence of the Lambs"
fame and the Dalai Lama's book The Art of Happiness. All books for
sale from The New York Times Best Sellers List are 50% off....only
from Amazon.com.
Support our site by buying a great summer "read" from
Powder and Bulk Dot Com's Reading Room.
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Ask Joe Column!
This months column from Joe Marinelli is entitled "Silo and Bin
Failures" is how design and use of silos can cause structural failures to occur. Good
information to know.
Guest Articles
Do you have an area of expertise in bulk materials? We welcome guest
articles in the Ask Joe! Column. If you have a 400-500 word article (illustrations are ok),
please contact Joe Marinelli at his email address "shtech@fmtc.net".
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.
Articles are listed chronologically by the month it appeared.
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The Internet
A great web site you might want to check out is called Search Engine
Watch (www.searchenginewatch.com).
All of us at one time or another use search engines for finding information on the internet.
Search Engine Watch keeps tabs on the latest developments on all the
major search engines. Take a look and see how yours rates in the number of pages
indexed.
Did you know that Northern Lights is the largest search engine with over
150 million web pages indexed? Did you know that there is a new search engine
being by Stanford called "Google".
Also for the webmasters, they have a great monthly news about the latest
changes, month-by -month. We read it every month and love it!
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Hot Messages from the Help Forum
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.
You can visit the Help Forum by clicking on the its button,
"Materials Handling Help Forum" on any page of our web site.
Ernst Rand in Holland writes:
We are manufacturing powdered flavors. Some customers want a certain
flowability of their products, because they use certain dosage equipment for
adding our products to their (usually) snack products (crisps, extruded snacks etc.)
Is their a simple method to measure the flowability (so that we can adjust it by
adding more drying agents) of powders.
Kind regards, Ernie. email: Ernst.Rand@IFF.com
Fred Tarazon of Mazama International writes:
I have 101,000 lbs. of extra-fine sugar in bulk that I need to have this
repacked to 100 lb. bags and shipped to New Jersey. The sugar is at Baldwin, Florida.
I need to find somebody that will repack this sugar for me ASAP. I prefer if it's
someplace in Florida, the East Coast or even maybe near to New Jersey. The sugar is in rail cars right now. Please email me with some info so I may complete
this deal.
Thanks, Fred Tarazon Mazama Intl.
Phone 509-996-8113 email: mazamaintl@hotmail.com
Can you offer assistance, if so please feel free to contact Ernie or
Fred!
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