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Fitchburg, MA -- Fantini Baking is
the first company to benefit from installing Lock's MET 30+
touchscreen detector with ADC software, following its launch in
Spring 2002. The Massachusetts-based baker was looking for a metal
detection system that could cope with different breads and
temperatures. Lock's ADC software allows changes in signals to be
identified and the detector to be adjusted, so delivering accurate
detection of the minutest particles of metal - whatever the product
or temperature.
Products
such as warm bread are notoriously difficult to inspect as they are
conductive and can interfere with the detector coil current. Combine
this with variations in temperature, moisture and salt content, and
the likely outcome is frequent false rejections. As a baker of
specialty breads, Fantini needed a detector capable of ensuring
consistently high sensitivity levels in the face of a range of
variables, including product temperatures of up to 110°F.
By taking signals from the metal
detector and displaying them on-screen in graphical format, ADC acts
as a 'window to the detection envelope'. The software's
easy-to-interpret images allow the user to fine-tune the detector
settings to match the product being inspected - so the tiniest
contaminants can be detected. Previously operated from a laptop, ADC
has been available via a user-friendly touchscreen operator panel on
the detector itself since Spring 2002.
"We make a variety of bread
loaves that present different signals to the metal detector,
sometimes changing from day to day due to change in temperatures in
our cooling process, and we need a system that will set up
easily," explained Reggie Bourassa, plant engineer at Fantini
Baking Company. "Lock's ADC technology allows us to do this by
viewing the detection field, so necessary changes can be done
immediately and accurately. Having ADC technology with a laptop was
great, but the new touchscreen option on the detector is even
better. The end result is the best possible sensitivities for all
metals."
Based in Fitchburg, Massachusetts,
and Oldham, UK, Lock Inspection Systems supplies metal detection and
checkweighing equipment to food manufacturers worldwide. A global
network of offices and distributors enables Lock to deliver the
highest standards of customer service and after sales care.
For more information contact:
Mr. Mark D'Onofrio Lock Inspection Systems Inc.
207 Authority Drive
Fitchburg, MA 01420
Telephone: 978-343-3716 or 800-227-5539
Fax: +1 978 343 6278
E-mail: mdonofrio@lockinspection.com
Web site: http://www.lockinspection.com/
Free
Testing
Gough Econ Opens New Test Facility
Charlotte, NC -- Gough Econ announced
this week the opening of their new test facility at their Charlotte,
NC operations.. With over 50 years of experience in material
handling and processing we are providing this facility to ensure
that the customer is provided with the very best possible solution
to their handling needs.
They
test all shapes and sizes of dry products from 10 lb. to 2000 lb.
bags on their bucket elevator, belt conveyor, vibratory feeder, and
screening equipment, which form the heart of every manufacturers
production process.
The facility can simulate real plant
environments to allow customers to determine with confidence the
reliability of Gough material handling equipment for their
application.
Gough invites companies to schedule a
free test on their product and learn more about Gough bucket
elevators and other innovative material handling products.
For more information contact:
Ms. Angela Gallagher Gough Econ Inc.
P O Box 668583
Charlotte, NC 28266
Telephone: 704-399-4501
Fax: 704-392-8706
Email: angelag@goughecon.com
Web site: www.goughecon.com
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Centrifuges
Market for Sedimentation Equipment
Will Exceed $5B by 2007
Northbrook, IL -- The world market
for centrifuges, clarifiers, dissolved air flotation systems, and
hydrocyclones will grow from just over $4 billion in 2002 to just
under $5 billion in 2006 and by 2007 will be comfortably over the $5
billion mark. This is the forecast provided by the McIlvaine Company
in the continually updated online report Sedimentation &
Centrifugation World Markets.
Clarifiers and thickeners will
generate the most revenues. These gravity settling devices are
widely used. They are found in every country from Australian mines
to Finnish sewage treatment plants. The second largest equipment
category is the disc centrifuge that is used as a dairy separator as
well as a purifier of pharmaceuticals, wine, and many other
products. Third on the list is the decanter centrifuge. It dewaters
sewage sludge and coal fines as well as food products.
Fourth place belongs to the
miscellaneous centrifuge segment. Basket and pusher centrifuges are
widely used in the chemical industry and are used in sugar and other
food processing applications as well. In fifth place is the
dissolved air flotation (DAF) system. This device is replacing sand
filters in municipal drinking water purification as well as cleaning
wastewater in chicken processing plants and drive-in car washes.
Last on the list with just 13% of the market is the hydrocyclone
which is used in minerals processing and power plant scrubber
wastewater cleaning.
The clarifier market became more
concentrated with GL&V purchasing first Dorr Oliver and then
Eimco. The resultant combination has a good share of the mining
market. But USFilter is the leader in clarifiers in the municipal
segment. Alfa Laval is the leader in both the decanter and disc
centrifuge category followed GEA Westfalia who is second in both
categories. Because of the high speed and demanding manufacturing
requirements there is less Asian competition in centrifuges than in
the other devices. The centrifuge market is dominated by U.S.
European and Japanese manufacturers. In contrast there are clarifier
and DAF suppliers in virtually every country.
Municipal wastewater is now the
largest application for sedimentation and centrifugation equipment
followed by the mining and food industries. However by 2006 the food
industry will be the largest segment. The pharmaceutical industry is
one of the smaller segments with projected 2003 revenues of $236
million but it is the highest growth segment. In 2006 projected
revenues are $288 million. This is in part due to the critical role
that disc separators play in the production of biotechnology
products.
There will be a substantial increase
in the purchase of clarifiers/thickeners and hydrocyclones by U.S.
power plants as they install flue gas desulfurization systems over
the next eight years. The biggest growth market, however, will be
China which is making huge investments to build wastewater treatment
plants. At the same time it is also experiencing growth in the basic
industries which are also major users of sedimentation and
centrifugation equipment.
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Allegan,
MI -- The new modular Material Master bulk bag discharger offers
features which maximize production efficiency. Automatically
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promote positive material flow, while a Flo-Lock discharge spout
closure system provides complete product flow shut off.
A Seal-Master bag spout chamber with
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spout clamp system seals the bag discharge spout for dust-tight
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For more information contact:
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Telephone: 269-673-2125
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Need help to prevent segregation of
individual ingredients in a PVC blend after lean phase conveying
into a holding silo. Find that as the silo is filled, the denser
ingredient (in this case Chalk), tends to separate out and stick to
the walls of the silo.
The material in the center of the
silo (mainly PVC resin with absorbed plasticizer) empties first with
the denser material (chalk) emptying last. This leads to a batch (
~10,000 kg) of PVC compound with low initial specific gravities and
nearing the last 2,000 kg, the density rises dramatically.
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Mr. Van der Veken needs help with
vacuum conveying:
We are a small company in Belgium who
builds installations for the bulk-industry. Now we have a project
with this problem.
On a height of 10 meters we have a
mixer with a batch of 1,500 kg product. Before they start to mix,
they have to add 80 kg very fine powder (i.e. colors and EDTA's).
When we blow it in with a pneumatic system, the air breaks the seals
from the mixer.
We can place a socking machine, but
then we have another problem: When the colors are into the mixer, we
start immediately to spray a liquid on the batch. So the spray is
coming into the filter and this one will become blocked. Now
we have to find some filter that is resistant to liquids.
I think we can work better with a
vacuum-transport, so we have no more overpressure into our mixer. We
have no experience with vacuum transport, so we are looking for a
company who does.
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