Vortex’s Pivoting Chute Diverter Offers Long Life Handling Abrasives
SALINA, KN – Vortex established its Titan Series product line in 2011 to address several abrasion concerns expressed across bulk material handling industries.
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Valves, Gates & Airlocks
Roller Gate Handling Ground Grains
Three Roller Gates are installed outdoors below a screw conveyor. They are installed at different points along the conveyor, serving as gates above three separate silos.
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Great Improvements Brought by WAMGROUP’s Butterfly Valves
PONTE MOTTA / CAVEZZO – Every year the industry worldwide increases its performance and quality standards for production processes. Particularly in sectors such as chemicals, plastics and food processing, improved process repeatability has become essential.
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Here Are Some Fail-Safe Food Safety Processes
Nobody likes finding mysterious items in their food, and nobody likes having to recall products due to contamination. And yet even things like machinery can contaminate products if processes aren’t in place to prevent that from happening.
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Air Leakage and Performance of Rotary Valves
CHIPPENHAM – All rotary valves leak air (or gas) even where there is no pressure differential as even the product entering the valve displaces air into the inlet area.
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Heavy Duty Rotary Valve For Powder
LANCASTER, PA – Efficient and reliable conveying of all kinds of powders needs high quality rotary valves. Pelletron’s PRM and PRH series powder valves are available for various differential pressure applications for 22psi up to 50psi.
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Megan Thompson (ACS Valves)Megan Thompson is President and COO of ACS Valves, industry-leading rotary valve manufacturers, located in Caledonia, Ontario. Megan is responsible for setting, and guiding the direction of the company’s global operations, sales, marketing, and product development initiatives.
Travis Young (Vortex Global Limited)Travis has 20 years of experience in the dry bulk solids industry and is the Vice President of Global Business Development at Vortex, an engineering and manufacturing company that specialises in process valves and loading solutions specifically for solids handling. Travis has worked on solution-driven ...
RotorCheck 5.0 Improves Safety and Convenience when Operating Rotary Valves
WEINGARTEN – Coperion will be presenting Version 5.0 of its proven RotorCheck contact monitoring system for rotary valves at booth 4-290 in hall 4 at Powtech 2017, which is taking place in Nuremberg from September 26 to 28, 2017.
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Anval Launches new Rotary Airlock Easy-Clean, RE Series
LONDON – Anval recently launched their new Rotary Airlock Easy-Clean, RE Series which was designed specifically for applications where quick cleaning or frequent removal of the rotary valve internals is necessary.
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Double Dump Airlock With Sanitary Features
Gemco Valve Project Manager, Jim Lenihan, recently returned from Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil where he supervised the commissioning of a double dump airlock on a vacuum dryer at the start-up of a Soy Protein Concentrate plant there.
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Top 5 Questions to Ask When Choosing a Material Handling Valve
Material handling valves come in all shapes, sizes, varieties, and with hundreds of available options. From rotary valves and knife gate valves to double dump valves and trickle valves the choices are nearly endless.
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