Charlotte, NC---Spiroflow Systems has developed a semi-truck filling system including a mobile bulk bag discharger with an integral aero-mechanical conveyor that can be quickly and easily positioned.

The mobile Spiroflow unit eliminates the need to build elaborate frames or gantries as well as the high cost of silo installation. One unit can quickly be set up by a single operator. The bulk bags are lifted into place as needed by a forklift. Adjustable conveying angle allows different size vehicles to be serviced without any loss in the filling speed offered, since the aero-mechanical conveyor's throughput is unaffected by angle, including vertical.

The system is dust-tight and can be used for sugar, flour and cement or any powder, granule or pellet transported by road. A variety of bulk bag dischargers are offered to handle a variety of poor-flowing products.

Aero-mechanical conveyors comprise a rope loop traveling through a tube with spaced discs secured to it, creating a moving fluidized air current virtually eliminating material degradation, with no cyclone or filter needed to separate the product from the air.

For more information contact:
Spiroflow Systems, Inc.
Telephone:  704-291-9595
Fax:  704-291-9594
Email:  info@spiroflowsystems.com
Web site:  www.spiroflowsystems.com

Uhingen, Germany -- One of the biggest manufacturers of citric acid in Belgium has begun to use an Allgaier vibrating-fluidized-bed-dryer for a continuous production. Within an air stream of about 60 °C heat, the moisture of the crystalline material is extracted and subsequently gets cooled down to 22 °C. This fluidized dryer is made of stainless steel with a length of more than 15 meters and a weight of about 35 tons.

Such a size of vibrating dryers in sanitary version was not available on the market yet, therefore a completely new construction was necessary. The dryers are equipped with CIP/WIP cleaning devices. CIP/WIP is an integrated jet cleaning system that enables automatic cleaning which means a considerable reduction of maintenance effort.

Further innovations are:

• Welded in outcrop plate, easy to clean
• Processing with conditioned air (dehumidified and warmed)

The integration of the dryer into complete arrangements or the connection with other components is no problem. Dust removal which is absolutely necessary is intended to be done by a pipe filter system.

For sieving of the pour-able citric acid dried product Allgaier also supplied the screening system composed of 9 tumbler screening machines. The sensitive crystals are separated into 6 fractions between 1,25 and 0,16 mm. The capacity of the dryer/screening arrangement is 20 tons/hour.

For more information contact:
Allgaier Werke GmbH
Postbox 40
73062 Uhingen
Germany
Telephone:  +49 7161 301-0
Fax:  +49 7161 32452
Web site:  http://www.allgaier.de/

Waterloo, IA -- Sahne Hope Full Grain Oil Foods Production Co. Ltd. has selected Roskamp Champion to provide the crushing equipment for a new oilseed crushing and extraction facility being constructed in Sanhe, China in Hebei Province.

Roskamp Champion is supplying the flaking and cracking mills used in the preparation plant. Roskamp Champion will supply the first 32-inch by 84-inch flakers (10 flakers, each capacity is 500TPD) to be used in China along with 12-inch by 72-inch crackers.

Shi Ke-rong General Manager of Sanhe Hope Full Grain and Jim Hughes General Manager of Roskamp Champion finalized the contract in early January, with equipment scheduled to arrive in Sanhe by the end of July 2003.

“We are pleased about our new relationship with Sanhe Hope Full,” says Hughes. “We were glad to expedite our production to help them meet their tight deadline.”

The Sanhe Hope Full facility is not only the largest in the Peoples Republic of China, but in all of Asia, and is expected to be operational in 2003. It will crush 5000 MTPD and will produce soybean meal and crude soy oil.

For more information contact:
Mr. Jim Hughes
Roskamp Champion
2975 Airline Circle
Waterloo, IA 50703
Telephone:  319-232-8444
Web site:  http://www.cpmroskamp.com/

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