Product News Munson Machinery: Stand-Alone Lump Breaker Utica (NY), United States – Munson Machinery has introduced a new De-Clumper Lump Breaker modelread more
Company News Duravant expands Food Processing Solutions Portfolio with Acquisition of PPM Technologies. Downers Grove (IL), United States – Duravant, a global engineered equipment and automation solutions provider to the food processing, packaging, and material handling sectors, has acquired PPM Technologies (“PPM”) from Stonehenge Partners. PPM is a manufacturer of high-quality conveying, coating, and thermal equipment headquartere…read more
Market News POWTECH and PARTEC 2019: powerful process engineering duo in Nuremberg Nürnberg, Germany – New formats and unrivalled technical breadth proved to be the recipe for success. This year too, POWTECH impressed once again as a leading international fair for the powder and bulk solids industries. Over three days, some 14,200[1] visitors enjoyed a first-class trade fair programme and made useful…read more
Company News Metso Outotec starts Operations – Partner for Tomorrow’s Aggregates, Minerals, Metals and Recycling Industries Helsinki, Finland – Metso Outotec, a unique new company offering sustainable minerals and metals processing and recycling technologies begins its operations today, July 1, 2020. Headquartered in Finland and listed in Nasdaq Helsinki, Metso Outotec employs over 15,000 professionals in more than 50 countries and its i…read more
Product News Minebea Intec: No chance for lateral Forces with the Weighing Module Novego Hamburg, Germany – With the new weighing module, Minebea Intec provides an innovative, hygienic and robust solution for weighing containers. In addition, during development there was a focus on simple installation. The hygienically-designed, long-lasting weighing module is now recommended for a range of industries.read more
Project News BHEL wins Order for 3x800 MW Coal-Fired Power Plant in Jharkhand, India New Delhi (Delhi), India – Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) has won a Rs.11,700 Crore (approx. USD 1.7 Billion) order for setting up a 3x800 MW supercritical thermal power plant in Jharkhand. The order for setting up the 3x800 MW Patratu Super Thermal Power Station Expansion, Phase-I has been placed on BHEL by Patratu…read more
Product News Minebea Intec: The Combics industrial scale with a measuring accuracy of 60,000 increments Hamburg, Germany – A new resolution level of 60,000 d is set to enhance the Combics industrial scales product range of Minebea Intec with immediate effect. By offering this extra level of precision, the global provider of industrial weighing and inspection technologies is specifically aiming to respond to the increasi…read more
Project News Dos Santos International: DSI Sandwich Belt High Angle Conveyors minimize Environmental Impact Marietta (GA), United States – In June 2015, U.S. based Dos Santos International commissioned its DSI Sandwich belt high angle conveyor with Zanella Engenharia e Industria de Maquinas of Curtiba, Parana, Brazil. To accommodate protected areas and reduce the plant’s environmental impact, Brennand Group requested a conveyor …read more
Company News Haver & Boecker at Powtech 2019: Packaging as a Key Factor of Success The Haver & Boecker Machinery Division will be exhibiting at this year's Powtech from April 9-11 under the motto ‘Perfect Flow for our blue planet’. The focus is on the question of sustainability and resource conservation. The packaging specialist from Oelde is presenting itself together with Ha…read more
Product News IEP Technologies: Explosion Isolation Flap Valves provide reliable low-cost Explosion Protection Ratingen, Germany – IEP Technologies recently introduced the IFV and IFV-M Isolation Flap Valves. These self-actuating devices are cost effective, easy to install, and reliable. Used in a wide range of industries where dust hazards may exist, such as food, wood processing, power generation, chemical, pharmaceutical …read more
Product News BossTek: New mobile Dust Suppression Design – rugged Construction, compact Size Peoria (IL), United States – BossTek announced the debut of the DustBoss® DB-30 FusionTM, the newest model in its growing family of self-powered dust suppression equipment. The new design is a versatile and transportable atomized mist unit, engineered with a workhorse electric motor and 30 KW generator.read more
Product News BossTek: Precise Additive Metering for combined Dust & Odor Control Peoria (IL), United States – In a move to deliver even greater performance and flexibility to its lineup of atomized mist cannons for odor management and wide-area disinfection, BossTek® has introduced a new model with a dosing pump to precisely meter additives such as surfactants, tackifiers, odor treatments and disinfectants…read more
Product News Munson Machinery: Variable Intensity Continuous Blender for Pastes, Slurries Utica (NY), United States – Munson Machinery has introduced a Variable Intensity Blender model VIM-124-SS with six injection ports, allowing liquid additions in small to large volumes to be combined with bulk food, chemical or pharmaceutical materials to produce pastes and slurries at high rates. Constructed of stainless stee…read more
Product News Russell Finex: Innovative Separation Solutions for Automated Food Processing Line Haitoglou enhances its automated tahini and sesame seed production line from start to finish with industrial screening, grading and filtration equipment. Haitoglou Bros SA is a global leader in the manufacture of sesame seed products, including tahini paste. The company processes up to 150 tonnes of…read more
Company News Vortex appoints exclusive Dealer for South Korea Salina (KS), United States – ortex Global, a solids and bulk handling components company, is pleased to announce the appointment of TSP (Total Solution Provider) Korea as its new representative exclusive to South Korea. With this appointment, TSP Korea will be responsible for creating customer relationships, arranging site visi…read more
Product News Flexicon: Stand-Alone Dust Collector removes Airborne Dust from Upstream Processes Whitstable, United Kingdom – A new Stand-alone Dust Collector from Flexicon removes airborne dust from upstream processes, and discharges it into containers positioned below the collection hopper, protecting operators and improving plant hygiene, while eliminating material waste.read more
Product News SWR Engineering: Emergency shutdown with AirSafe Schliengen, Germany – Filtering starch through a fine screen Application In this application starch is produced in a food manufacturer’s plant before being blown into a silo with a holding capacity of 25 tonnes. The material is then filtered through a fine screen before being transferred to a drying silo in a further p…read more
Company News DW Prouty joins BinMaster Network Lincoln (NE), United States – Dwight W. Prouty Company has been serving a diverse base of industrial manufacturers and power plants since 1969. The company will now offer the full line of BinMaster sensors and software solutions. The Mobile, Alabama-based company provides integrated industrial solutions for the chemical, food, p…read more
bulk solids handling Journal Product News Removing Aggregate from Barges: A flexible, mobile floating Barge Offloading Platform The utilisation of waterways is an easy, cheap and environmentally friendly way to transport solid bulk material like aggregate from A to B. A barge-mounted excavation simplifies the emptying process. Ideally suited for this purpose are cranes in balanced design as they minimize tilting of the suppo…read more
Product News Sick extends LMS Bulkscan non-Contact Belt Measurement to more Users Düsseldorf, Germany – SICK has extended its LMS Bulkscan laser scanner offering, so that more users can benefit from non-contact, continuous measurement of volume and mass throughput of bulk materials on conveyor belts. The SICK LMS111 Bulkscan provides highly-accurate, delay-free volume and mass flow measurements to ma…read more
Product News Flexco: New Y-type Secondary Cleaner ensures very high Cleaning Performance Material carryback is one of the main causes of potential problems in belt conveyor systems. To prevent this, operators rely on precleaners for coarse materials and secondary cleaners for fine cleaning, and in many cases these cleaning systems can remove more than 90% of carryback. The new Y-Type by…read more
Company News Brabender Technology at FAKUMA 2017 Duisburg, Germany – Brabender Technologie is commissioning its new Technical Center in Duisburg in time for FAKUMA. CEO Horst Vohwinkel explains the benefits of these new facilities: “This gives us entirely new opportunities, in terms of both the quantity and quality of the tests we conduct. To date we have suffered …read more
Product News Fairbanks Scales FB4000 Instruments enable predictive Cutoff Applications Kansas City (MO), United States – According to Fairbanks Scales, the company’s FB4000 Series of scale instruments is ideal for implementing predictive cutoff flow monitoring in a wide range of industrial filling applications, including grain loading, cement and asphalt mixing, food and beverage batching processes, and more.read more
Market News IPB China 2018: Powder & Bulk Solids Processing Conference and Exhibition ends on a high Note Nürnberg, Germany – The International Powder & Bulk Solids Processing Conference & Exhibition (IPB), held in Shanghai on 17-19 October 2018, once again demonstrated the professionalism of the POWTECH World family of events in the areas of powder and bulk solids. IPB China continued its 16-year history of success with s…read more
