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Focus
Solids Handling and Storage
Stainless-steel lump breakers
for sanitary processing
Nibbler GNB lump breakers (photo)
feature a hygienic design as standard
for safe installation in food, petfood,
bakery, nutrition, pharmaceutical
and other sanitary processing facilities.
Complying with FDA requirements
and certified as hygienic by
European Hygienic Engineering and
Design Group (EHEDG), the Nibbler
deagglomerators feature 316L stainless-steel
construction for productcontact
parts, continuously welded
seams throughout, food-grade drive
lubricant, and internals that are polished
to a highly smooth Ra ≤ 0.8
μm. The potential for contamination
is reduced by design, while cleaning
and changeovers move fast and easily.
The Nibbler GNB accepts material
from a bulk bag unloader, sack
tipping station or conveyor and automatically
cuts the material down
to as small as 1 mm in size without
generating fine particles or adding
heat history. - Gericke USA, Inc.,
Somerset, N.J.
www.gerickegroup.com
These bag fillers are accurate,
and have low maintenance
This company's bulk-bag fillers are
designed to fill any size bulk bag with
high accuracy, while offering years of
trouble-free maintenance. The Model
BBF loader (photo) features an inflatable
fill head that offers a dust-free
seal when loading; dust port with
dust cartridge; and manually adjustable
bag supports for varying bag
heights, which is especially useful for
low ceiling heights. Many options are
available. - Best Process Solutions,
Inc., Brunswick, Ohio
www.bpsvibes.com
High-temperature screw
conveyors for hot materials
The high-temperature Spiralfeeder
flexible screw conveyors (photo) accept
heated powders, pellets and
other bulk materials at infeed and
transfer them downstream. Often
set at the discharge end of fluidizedbed
dryers, ovens, rotary kilns and
other process-heating machinery,
the high-temperature conveying
systems feature a carbon-steel or
optional stainless-steel outer tube
and inner steel screw joined with
high-temperature silicone and Teflon
seals and gaskets throughout
the design. A proprietary approach
distances the drive mechanism
from the hopper to minimize exposure
to high temperatures. Suitable
for food and pharmaceutical ingredients,
chemicals, aggregates and
other materials, the heat-resistant
conveyor is recommended when
the material temperature at infeed
reaches 120°F. The screw conveyors
are proven to safely transfer a
variety of coarse and fine solid and
viscous materials with temperatures
up to 400°F. - Automated Flexible
Conveyor, Inc., Clifton, N.J.
www.afcspiralfeeder.com
Tension fabric buildings feature
structural steel frame
Combining rigid-frame engineering
with the benefits of tension-fabric
membranes, this company offers
fabric structures that are fully customizable.
This design concept
provides a high level of flexibility for
a wide array of applications and industries,
including commercial and
industrial warehousing, cold-storage
facilities, equipment and bulk material
storage, treatment plants and
many more. These fabric buildings
utilize a durable rigid frame in place
of the hollow-tube, open web-truss
" hoop " framing traditionally used for
fabric structures. The strength of the
structural steel frame provides several
engineering advantages, most
notably the ability to easily customize
buildings to the exact width, length
and height required. In addition to
long clear spans, the buildings have
straight sidewalls that maximize the
useable square footage inside the
structure. - Legacy Building Solutions,
South Haven, Minn.
www.legacybuildingsolutions.com
Cooling conveyor boosts
powder coatings productivity
This company has launched a new
range
of cooling
conveyors
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Best Process Solutions
Gericke USA
Automated Flexible Conveyor
for
powder-coating applications. This
addition is key to the availability of
Legacy Building Solutions
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