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Powder and Bulk Dot Com Newsletter
"For the materials handling & processing professional...."
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Vol. 2, No. 67, October 23, 2000
International Standard Serial Number (ISSN): 1526-9051
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Joseph Taylor, Editor, mailto:jtaylor@powderandbulk.com
Copyright 1999-2000, Powder and Bulk Dot Com
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Joe Taylor
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Contents:
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> Press Releases, Show Announcements and Industry News Wanted!
> Sponsors Message
> World’s Largest Aluminum Storage Domes for JEA in Florida
> Krupp Werner & PfJeiderer, Waeschle and Buss Merge Businesses
> Top Picks From Amazon.com
> Ask Joe Column!
> Keeping Production Engineers and Production Accountants Happy
> We had over 17,000+ Visitors and 246,000 Page Hits in September!
> Pneumatic Conveying Seminar Adds Focus on Plastics
> Hot Messages from the Help Forum
> Call For Photographs!
> From the Job Fair
> Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Sponsorship & Archive Information
> ReferWare
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Press Releases, Show Announcements and Industry News Wanted!
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World’s Largest Aluminum Storage Domes for JEA in Florida
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Fluor Global Services, a major service provider to JEA,
recently awarded a contract to Geometrica Inc. to supply and
install a pair of aluminum domes that will be among the
largest in the world.
JEA, the eighth-largest municipal electric utility in the
country, operates the Northside Generating Station in
Jacksonville, Florida, where the domes will shelter the
plant's fuel supplies of coal and petroleum coke. The domes,
which will have an innovative interior cladding system
that was developed by Geometrica to provide safer coal
storage, are scheduled for completion in late 2000.
Each aluminum dome will have a diameter of 400 feet and
a capacity of 60,000 metric tons of coal. Additionally,
the domes will have vehicle access and personnel doors,
water cannon hatches, and ground level and elevated conveyor
openings. The domes will be pre-assembled on the ground and
lifted in sections.
Geometrica’s invention of internal cladding, coupled with
their successful supply of storage facilities located near
coastal waters subject to marine related corrosion, heavy
winds and weather, led Fluor to choose it as the supplier.
Geometrica Inc. is a Houston, Texas-based manufacturer
specializing in the storage of bulk materials for the
cement, mining, power and agricultural industries. It
also manufactures architectural structures for commercial
and industrial construction.
Fluor Global Services provides operation, maintenance
and consulting services and is a Fluor Corporation company.
Fluor Corporation provides services on a global basis in
the fields of engineering, procurement, construction,
maintenance and operations, equipment leasing, consulting
and coal production. It is headquartered in Aliso Viejo,
California
For more information contact:
Geometrica, Inc.
908 Town & Country Blvd., Suite 330
Houston, TX 77024
Telephone: (713) 722-7555
Fax: (713) 722-0331
Web Site: http://www.geometrica.com/
mailto:sales@geometrica.com
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Krupp Werner & PfJeiderer, Waeschle and Buss Merge Businesses
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The merger will create a leading supplier of systems and
components for plastics processing. Industrial management by
Georg Fischer, and the expertise of West Private Equity/
WestLB as financial investors will ensure that the potential
appreciation in value of the new market leader will be fully
realized. The aim is a spin-off within 3-5 years, for instance
by floating the group on the stock market. The new group will
be formed as of October 1, subject to approval by the European
anti-trust authorities.
Georg Fischer Corporation is at present focused on four
industrial core businesses: Automotive Products, Piping Systems,
Manufacturing Technology and Plant Engineering. "By spinning off
our plant engineering activities," says Martin Huber, Chief
Executive Officer, "Georg Fischer is taking an important strategic
step." Werner & Pfleiderer, Waeschle and Buss are leading suppliers
to the plastics manufacturing and processing industry .Joining
efforts will enable the new company to appreciate in value and
generate above-average growth, based on its strong position in
growing markets as well as by exploiting synergies between the
merging companies, especially in the fields of consulting, sales,
services and logistics. Current combined sales of DEM 760 million
are expected to be raised to some DEM 1 billion over the next
five years, accompanied by a sustained increase of profitability.
The new group has a total of over 2,000 employees (Werner &
Pfleiderer: 1,100, Waeschle: 610, Buss: 320). Operational units
comprise 18 companies at 35 different locations. The most
important production plants are located in Germany, Switzerland,
the USA and India. The group has sales representations worldwide,
and by combining forces it will further strengthen its market
position and will gain maximum profit from cost and sales
synergies for the benefit of customers.
For more details, inquiries may be addressed to:
Waeschle Inc.
230 Covington Dr.
Bloomingdale, IL 60108
Telephone: 630-539-9100
Fax: 630-539-9196
Web site: http://www.waeschle.com/
mailto:info@waeschle.com
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Top Picks From Amazon.com
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We have updated and added about a dozen new books for the
materials handling professional to the Technical Reading Room.
Here are some of the new selections:
"Packaging: Specifications, Purchasing, and Quality
Control"
by Edmund A. Leonard
Hardcover, 4th Rev edition
"Food Packaging
Technology"
by G. Bureau (Editor), J.-L. Multon (Editor)
Hardcover, November 1995
"Corrugated Shipping Containers: An Engineering
Approach"
by George G. Maltenfort
Hardcover, revised edition, 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!
Thank you for your continued support of Powder and Bulk Dot
Com and for our Reading Room. You can visit the Reading Room at:
http://www.powderandbulk.com/pb_services/readingroom.htm
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Ask Joe Column!
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THIS WEEK'S ARTICLE
"Is My Pneumatic Conveying System Causing Segregation?"
Guest article by Richard Farnish, The Wolfson Centre for
Bulk Solids Handling Technology
You can read Richard's article at:
http://www.powderandbulk.com/pb_services/askjoe.htm
PAST Ask Joe! ARCHIVED ARTCLES
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, 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.
For more information, please contact Joe Marinelli at:
mailto:shtech@fmtc.net
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Keeping Production Engineers and Production Accountants Happy
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Compounds and Process Control
Production Engineers want precision, exact blends of specific
components, in the right place, in the right percentages at
the right time. Accountants want a healthy bottom line,
minimum outlay, the odd happy customer to keep the order books
healthy, but ultimately the highest return for the smallest
investment - and the lowest levels of masterbatch and expensive
additives possible to keep the end product on-spec.
The Mini S 9000, the newest TSM equipment on the market has
much to offer both camps. As an economic alternative to TSM's
Sigmat 9000NT, this central console can supervise all of TSM's
extrusion control systems, such as gravimetric blending and
extrusion control, line speed, film width and thickness
monitoring for extrusion lines up to 7 layers.
Like the Sigmat 9000, it also employs Windows NT-based
supervisory software and offers recipe storage, alarm/event,
and roll, shift or order reports. The Mini S9000 is also
accessible via plant network or web-browser with real-time
updates, as an integrated 10 base T Ethernet adapter card makes
connecting to a PC network easy - and also allows multiple
client access and data sharing of information and reports etc,
via a network adapter and client licences..
The system is packaged in a compact cabinet with touch screen
color TFT interface. with intuitive mimic based displays.
Because what is happening on the line is mimicked on the screen,
the operator intuitively knows the system almost as soon as
it is set-up.
The Mini S 9000 also controls materials handling and vacuum
sequencing -for up to 8 components on 7 layers - with
intelligent vacuum receivers so that the extruders are kept
fed and the line is always running at optimum levels.
Click here for a photo of the Mini S 9000:
http://www.tsm-controls.com/download/mini_s.jpg
Waste is virtually eliminated - wasted components, wasted
man-hours, wasted data wasted effort, and the expandable
nature of the system - its compatibility across all standard
protocols ensures that it will grow with the production
process, the future plant spend, and continue to
save money long after it has paid for itself.
For more information contact:
Mr. Diarmuid Cromie
Marketing Executive
TSM Control Systems
Ard Easmuinn, Dundalk,
Ireland
Telephone: +353-42-9335560
Fax: +353-42-9334422
Web site: http://www.tsm-controls.com/
mailto:dcromie@tsm-controls.com
- OR -
TSM Control Systems Inc.
1835 Briarwood RD., N.E.
Atlanta, Georgia 30329-1698
Telephone: 404-315-9111
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Pneumatic Conveying Seminar Adds Focus on Plastics
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The Pneumatic Conveying School which is being offered by the
University of Toledo on November 28 through 30, at Charlotte
NC, will include a special evening session for "Plastics".
The panel presentation will include Paul Solt, Pneumatic
Conveying Consultant, and Amrit "Tim" Agarwal of Union Carbide.
Both of these men have spent the majority of their life with
pneumatic conveying and will share their special understanding
of handling of plastics, both pellets and powder.
Bring your questions and get help from the panel and other
attendees,
For more information about the special panel meeting contact
Beth Nielson Smith at (419) 321-5149.
For information on the three day school contact University
of Toledo at (419) 321-5139 or visit their web site at:
http://www.learningjourney.cc/
Paul Solt
Pneumatic Conveying Consultants
529 South Berks Street
Allentown, PA 18104-6647 USA
Phone: (610) 437-3220
Fax: (610) 437-7935
Web site: Pneumatic
Conveying Consultants 
mailto:pccsolt@tidalwave.com
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Hot Messages from the Help Forum
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People post their requests for help and offer their suggestions
to others in our open forum.
Mr. Penrod needs help with cobalt oxide flow problems:
We are having problems maintaining the flow of Cobalt Ox that
is gravity feed from a static bin to a vibratory feeder. The
Cobalt Ox is rat-holing and bridging in the bin and at times
sticks in the 2" dia. bin orifice.
We are making 80 batches per day with 2 pounds of cobalt ox
per batch. What are the critical parameters (temp, moisture,
part size, etc.) that should be measured and controlled in
the cobalt ox?
What system modifications should be made to our process to
prevent flow problems?
Bret Penrod
Pilkington
140 Dixie Hwy.
Rossford, OH
Telephone: 419-247-4694 - office, 419-247-3259 - plant
Fax: 419-247-3326
mailto:bret.penrod@us.pilkington.com
Mr. Sanchez is looking for a molasses of sugar cane pelletizer:
We have the pleasure to write to you, in order to ask about
pelletizing machinery, used with molasses of sugar cane.
The principal characteristic of this material is following:
Brix per cent : 85-90 (solids concentration)
Pol per cent : 32.30 - 43.20 (sugar per cent
Pureza per cent : 38.00
Viscosity : 6.000 aprox. (at 30 degrade C.)
The tonnage of molasses to process in the year is about 25,000
metric tons. Please, send us all about this machinery to
following address:
Mr. German Sanchez
Industrias La Belgica S.A.
Casilla 130, Av.
Irala 585 - Piso 1, Ofic.. 101
Santa Cruz - Bolivia
Fax: 591 3 352169
mailto:belgimpor@scbbs-bo.com
These and other messages can be found in the Help Forum.
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Call For Photographs!
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This week's photo is of a man attempting to bang loose the
material bridge inside the sloping cone bottom of his silo
with a sledgehammer. His solution was the Laidig Conical
System Unloader, Model 4345 that appears in the cutaway
image to the right.
Photo submitted by John Houin of Laidig Industrial Systems.
http://www.laidig.com/
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,
mailto:news@powderandbulk.com
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