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Featured Food & Drink 

Unique Micron Angle Disintegrator Offers Five-a-day Processing

Hosokawa Micron’s unique Angle Disintegrator, with 5-a day, streamlined processing options is helping manufacturers of soups, purées, sauces and dressings meet the market demand for increasingly authentic and quality fruit, vegetable purées and demand for the flavours of exotic and often difficult to handle spices and fruits. This multi-tasking machine offers 5 different processing options in one machine: pulping or... Read More
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K-Vision controller now supports two independent lines of feeders

Coperion K-Tron, Niederlenz, Switzerland, has added new features to its proven K-Vision™ software. The K-Vision controller is a graphical operator interface for controlling multiple devices such as feeders or feeder refill (vacuum receivers) in a process. With the release of K-Vision Software version 2.0, the K-Vision is now able to handle a total of 24 devices (e.g. KCM feeder controls... Read More
Bulk Materials Handling News 

Emerson Introduces New Motor Starter With Component-Level Protection for Improved Cost Performance

PlexPower™ designs are faster to install and easier to maintain and operate than traditional cast motor starters resulting in a 73% lower total cost of ownership Emerson has introduced a cost-effective, easy-to-install and simple-to-operate alternative to traditional cast and bolted motor starters in the form of its new Appleton® PlexPower™ solution.  Designed for hazardous, wet or corrosive locations such as oil refineries... Read More
Featured Valves 

Case Study: Vortex Global Provides Process Solution for Chemical Company

Based in Cheshire, UK, Tata Chemicals Europe is one of Europe's leading producers of sodium carbonate, salt and sodium bicarbonate, among other products. Tata Chemicals is the only manufacturer of soda ash and sodium bicarbonate in the UK. Their high-quality soda ash is used in the manufacture of glass, detergents and chemicals, and in several other industry applications. Their many... Read More
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Hosokawa Unveil £600k Investment in Smart Powder Processing

Hosokawa Micron has recently invested £600k in two new Control Systems incorporating the latest digital manufacturing technologies within their Contract Manufacturing Facility in Runcorn. ‘Our challenge to meet future contract processing demands through improved product quality and yields, minimise unplanned plant downtime and maximise plant availability and production flexibility is reflected throughout the processing industries. This investment demonstrates how we... Read More
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Custom Designed Pneumatic Conveying Systems

Dry, granular materials can be moved gently, reliably and with significant reduction in product degradation and/or system wear with a Dynamic Air pneumatic conveying system. Each Dynamic Air pneumatic conveying system is custom-designed to achieve the optimum performance characteristics at the highest efficiencies. Dynamic Air has developed 16 different pneumatic conveying concepts, utilizing both pressure and vacuum, for handling a... Read More
Featured Screening 

Industrial screeners for conveyor systems

Kemira Chemicals installs vibratory sieve to screen incoming raw chemical materials unloaded from dry bulk tanker Kemira Chemicals (UK) Ltd. (Kemira), part of the Kemira Oyj chemical industry group, is a producer of advanced chemicals for pulp and paper, water treatment, oil and gas and other industrial chemical applications. At its production site in Ellesmere Port, UK, Kemira produces a... Read More
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Auger Screw Spares for All types of Machine

Trantec are a leading suppliers of auger spares to the Bulk Solids Industry. From Powder Dosing Systems to Metering Screw Feeders to Filling Machines, Trantec have supplied an array of replacement auger screws and ancillary parts since 1997. Trantec particularly specialise in full flight augers, manufacturing these screws to very high precision at sensible prices. Not all metering feeder manufacturers... Read More
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‘M’ Series Metering Screw Feeders

Metering Screw Feeders are specially designed to continuously dose materials, from harsh granules to fine powders, at a constant volume to high accuracies. The feeder is made up of a feeder body, complete with rotating agitator and various control functions which provide constant or intermittent feeding to suit the nature of the products being handled. The agitator manipulates the product... Read More