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Powder and Bulk Dot Com Newsletter
"For the materials handling & processing professional...."
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Vol. 2, No. 60, September 4, 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
This is a 100% opt-in newsletter with news and information
for the materials handling professional. The Newsletter is
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Hope you all have had a great summer, now its time to put
the "nose to the grindstone". Keep us in mind if you have
some interesting news about you or your company's activities.
We would love to hear from you!
Our goal is to provide information to improve your business
by using the resources available on the Internet.
Thanks,
Joe Taylor
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Contents:
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> Press Releases, Show Announcements and Industry News Wanted!
> Sponsors Message
> Exclusive Printing Inks: Topas Makes Them Possible
> CEMA's Monthly Statistics Report, June, 2000
> Top Picks From Amazon.com
> Ask Joe Column!, "Frequently Asked Questions"
> Free Application Guide to Rare Earth Magnets
> We had over 17,000+ Visitors and 240,000 Page Hits in August!
> Portasilo Bulk Handling Systems Leads with Pneumatic Conveying
> 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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Exclusive Printing Inks: Topas Makes Them Possible
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The importance of appealing designs in the packaging industry
is rising steadily. Indirectly, this also affects printing
ink manufacturers, whose products are expected to satisfy
increasingly unusual demands.
The company BASF Vernici e Inchiostri in Cinisello (Italy)
therefore produces its liquid inks on six high-capacity
Topas bead mills from Buhler.
Packagings are becoming increasingly exotic, with their
forms and colors having to be continuously adapted to the
breathtaking pace of change that marketing strategies are
undergoing. The company BASF Vernici e Inchiostri in
Cinisello near Milan is active in the field of liquid
printing ink production and has therefore felt the full
impact of this trend. The Italian affiliate of BASF
therefore searched for a flexible solution for the future.
Characteristics such as low product temperatures or resistance
to wear and corrosion thanks to the application of
ceramic materials of construction convinced BASF that
the Topas high-capacity bead mill was the right choice.
Topas is the ideal solution for the fine dispersion and
fine grinding of low- to medium-viscosity, water-based
and solvent-containing products. In other words, the
machine perfectly suits the customer’s application range.
Working closely together in an exemplary partnership, the
engineers from Buhler and BASF designed six entirely new
processing lines equipped with Topas high-capacity bead
mills. Today, these machines operate fully automatically
as part of the overall plant and are controlled from a
centralized location via a bus system. These adjustments
have made it possible for BASF to implement, among other
things, job and formulation management tasks as well as
to achieve a clear overview of the process operations.
Four machines are provided for production of the four
colors cyan, yellow, magenta and black. The other two
Topas units are reserved by the customer for overcoming
bottlenecks or processing specialty inks. The six
high-capacity bead mills give BASF the necessary flexibility
to cope with qualitatively and quantitatively demanding
jobs. With an annual output of 4000 metric tons of ink,
the company has not yet reached its capacity limits and
is therefore well prepared to handle additional order
volumes.
For more information contact:
Mr. Roman Salzmann
Manager Corporate Communications
Buhler AG
CH-9240 Uzwil
Switzerland
Telephone ++41 71 955 33 99
Fax ++41 71 955 38 51
Web site: http://www.buhler.ch/
mailto:roman.salzmann@buz.buhler.ch
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CEMA's Monthly Statistics Report, June, 2000
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NAPLES, FL. - August 21, 2000 - The Conveyor Equipment
Manufacturers Association (CEMA) reported that its June 2000
Booked Orders Index was 235, up 51 points, or an increase of
28%, from May 2000’s Index of 184 (1990 = 100).
The June 2000 Index represents an increase of 5% from the June
1999 Index of 223.June Booked Orders Indexes were 115 for
Bulk Handling Equipment* and 246 for Unit Handling Equipment.**
(1990 = 100) .
The Twelve-Month Index for Booked Orders was 207 in May. The
Index represents an increase of 1% from May 2000's Twelve-Month
Index of 206.
The CEMA Billed Sales (shipments) Index was 306 in June, up
55 points, or an increase of 22%, from the May Index of 251.
The June 2000 Index represents an increase of 35% from the June
1999 Index of 227.
June Billed Sales Indexes were 109 for Bulk Handling Equipment*
and 313 for Unit Handling Equipment** (1990-100). The Twelve-Month
Index for Billed Sales was 241 in June. The Index represents an
increase of 3% from May 2000’s Twelve Month Index of 234.
* Since Bulk Handling Systems booked and billed sales are
reported quarterly, they are averaged back to the two
preceding months to enable a running monthly index.
** Effective with the January 1999 report, sales for conveyor
chain were added to the booked and billed sales indexes for
Unit Handling Equipment.
For more information contact:
Conveyor Equipment Manufacturers Association (CEMA)
6724 Lone Oak Blvd.
Naples, Florida 34109
Telephone: 941-514-3441
Fax: 941-514-3470
Web site: http://www.cemanet.org/
mailto:cema@cemanet.org
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Top Picks From Amazon.com
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Time to advance your skills over the summer, check into these
great books to broaden your processing knowledge.
"Plant Layout and Material
Handling"
by Fred E. Meyers
Hardcover, January 1993
"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
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!, "Frequently Asked Questions"
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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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Free Application Guide to Rare Earth Magnets
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Erie, PA - Eriez Magnetics now offers a free, easy-to-use
application guide to rare earth magnets, describing Eriez’
state-of-the-art Erium® material and how it can be used in
a variety of applications, including grates, traps, rolls
and tube. And, the reference tool doubles as a ruler, with
both standard and metric scales.
For a free copy of the guide, call Eriez Magnetics at
888-800-ERIEZ or fax (814) 838-4960. Visit their web site
to order the guide online.
Eriez, recognized as "world authority in advanced technology
for magnetic, vibratory and metal detection applications,"
designs, develops, manufactures and markets advanced
technology equipment for magnetic separation, metal detection
and materials feeding, screening, conveying and controlling
applications.
For more information contact:
Mr. Keith Jones
Eriez Magnetics
P.O. Box 10608
Erie, PA 16514-0608
Telephone (toll free): 800-345-4946
Outside the United States: 814-835-6000
Fax: 814-833-3348
Web site: Eriez
Magnetics 
mailto:eriez@eriez.com
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Portasilo Bulk Handling Systems Leads with Pneumatic Conveying
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Portasilo will display the latest developments to the highly
successful PORTASILO SUPERFLO dense phase pneumatic conveying
system, the award winning ROTOFLO discharge system and the
innovative VIBROFLO vibratory discharger.
The PORTASILO SUPERFLO system is unique in its ability to
handle a large range of materials within a single vessel.
The system incorporates an on-line airflow control system,
which continuously monitors and adjusts the air distribution
to optimise conveying performance.
With the built in fluidising unit, the PORTASILO SUPERFLO
system can condition and homogenise products within the
vessel itself, reducing down stream mixing times and increasing
overall plant efficiency. This well proven equipment is designed
for 1.5 million cycles, which means a typical design life of
30 years - a 'fit and forget' solution to your pneumatic
conveying problems.
The Engineering Industry Award winning ROTOFLO discharge
unit is the versatile, efficient, precisely controlled,
reliable and cost effective solution to silo discharge
problems. It eliminates core flow, bridging, 'ratholing'
and stagnant areas in discharging even the most difficult of
particulate materials, without recourse to vibration or
aeration. Units can be readily retro-fitted to existing
storage installations.
Portasilo's innovative VIBROFLO vibratory discharge system
is robust and versatile, where a vibratory solution is
essential. The evolutionary design of the VIBROFLO discharger
eliminates the circumferential seal - the Achilles heal of
previous vibratory discharge devices. In doing this,
Portasilo has produced a dust free vibratory discharger,
which can be either round, square or rectangular. By
mounting to a conventional flange, the unit can be supplied
for both new installations or retro-fitted.
Portasilo Bulk Handling Systems offers a wide range of
handling and storage solutions for particulate materials,
based on over 45 years experience throughout process
industry. Planned maintenance services, tailored to
specific customer requirements, are available to ensure
equipment remains at peak efficiency, year after year.
For more information contact:
Mr. Chris Mason,
Group Information Officer,
Fulford Moor House,
Fulford Road, York,
YO10 4EY, England
Web site: http://www.portasilo.co.uk/
Tel: 01904 653040 x 4321.
Fax: 01904 682836.
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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. Loeffler need help with pulley lagging:
Trying to locate supplier or manufacturer for Lorig self
aligned pulley lagging. As I remember this was a US Steel
product used for belt training.
Frank Loeffler
Phone 281-338-2801
FAX 281-332-4404
mailto:loeeng@att.net
Mr. Ulrich needs help with load cells:
I would like to connect a load cell (10,000 lbs) to a digital
meter (which reads real time, with high & low peak indication)
the meter must also plug into a computer for real time
download onto an EXCEL spreadsheet. I need software that
provides real-time data acquisition plus cables .
Thanks,
Joe Ulrich
Fred Weber, Inc
mailto:julrich@fredweberinc.com
These and other messages can be found in the Help Forum.
Share your expertise with others:
http://www.powderandbulk.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl
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Call For Photographs!
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This week's photo is of two trucks with and without Poly Hi
Solidurs' TIVAR 88 Off Road Truck Liner Kit. Promotes bulk
material flow, and reduces abrasion and corrosion of the
dump body. Material is also used to line silos and chutes.
Photo is courtesy of Jeff Gaerte, Poly Hi Solidur.
Web site: http://www.polyhisolidur.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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From the Job Fair
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SALES REPS WANTED
Phoenix Technology Inc. is a dynamic engineering and systems
design company in the bulk material handling industry. We
are extremely competitive and quality minded. We recently
acquired our full fabrication and manufacturing capabilities
here at our Florida location.
We would like your firm or just yourself, to represent us in
the the following territories; New England - Midwest (CHICAGO).
We pay top commissions in the industry and protect your
territory. Please Contact
Mr. Gary Wildgoose
Phoenix Technology Inc.
10332 Pastel Lane
Port Richey, FL 34668
Telephone: 727-858-2913
mailto:gary.wildgoose@gte.net
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