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Newsletter - Issue 26

PowderHandling.com.au - December 2008 Newsletter



Welcome...

 
....to the December issue of the PowderHandling.com.au online newsletter.
 
The end of the year is upon us once again  (I know, where did  the year go!) and it's a time of course when the lucky ones start to think about holidays, but some amongst us have to turn their attentions to annual maintenance shutdowns!
 
Well if you are looking for parts or service during the holiday period, the PowderHandling web site is a great place to start. Simply use the Equipment Directory to locate or search for a specific item or service, or if you know the name of the supplier you are looking for, use the Suppliers Directory to find their contact details. The web site will be available 24 hours a day over the Christmas period.
 
As we move into 2009, we will be introducing new features to the PowderHandling web site and we will be releasing details of our seminar program for the year. Our first event for 2009 will be in late February/early March and we are also planning to return to NZ again, around the middle of the year.
 
In each of our monthly newsletters this year, we have featured the Top 20 Suppliers for that month. As this is the final newsletter for the year, this month, we are featuring the Top 50 Suppliers for 2008
 
As this is our final newsletter for 2008, I would like to thank all our advertisers and sponsors for their support and thank all the visitors to the web site for your patronage throughout the year. I hope you all have a very Merry Christmas and a Happy and Prosperous New Year!!
 
Plese note that the our office will be closed on the 24th December and will re-open January 5th. Enquiries will continue to be forwarded to suppliers over this time.
 
If you think that our seminars or newsletter would be of interest to your colleagues and associates, then do them a favour by forwarding this newsletter to them. They can then subscribe to receive their own copy every month.

PowderHandling.com.au is a resource of Engineered Marketing Pty Ltd (ACN 131 506 780), providing "Marketing solutions for the Process Industries" www.engineeredmarketing.com.au

Paul Nutter
Director
Engineered Marketing Pty Ltd
Phone: 0431 022 066
 
 
 
 
Featured Article:

Torpedo In-Line Magnets

Aims Industrial supply Bunting® Torpedo In-Line Magnets (TIM) which provide permanent magnetic protection for vacuum systems. They clamp directly into flexible hoses to capture ferrous contaminants. The compact TIM is an ideal option for use between gaylords and vacuum loaders wherever overhead space is limited and prevents the use of a Bunting® Drawer Magnet.

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Product of the Month:

USDA Compliant Rotary Valves

DMN-WESTINGHOUSE has been designing and manufacturing rotary valves, diverter valves and other related components for the bulk solids handling industry for more than 30 years. Offering tailor made solutions for chemical, food, plastics and pharmaceutical industries, DMN-WESTINGHOUSE products are distributed worldwide.
 

Featured Company:

Celebrating 30 Years in the Industry

Maxworthy Fabrication Qld Pty Ltd is an independent and progressive privately owned steel fabrication business established in 1978, providing quality mechanical and fabricated equipment for bulk materials handling, storage, and transfer also servicing the construction industry and general fabrication.

Over the past thirty years, the company has proudly grown to where it is today employing a specialist staff of 20, comprising of boilermakers, fitters, welders and machinists....
 
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Latest Industry News:

Flexicon Triples Brisbane Manufacturing Space

Flexicon Corporation (Australia) Pty Limited have more than tripled their Brisbane operation by expanding into an adjacent manufacturing facility, it was announced by Ray Greene, General Manager, here.

The new plant adds approximately 2200 sq m to the company's existing 1000 sq m space, and will be dedicated to increasing manufacturing and engineering capacity, while the original facility retains manufacturing, test plant, sales and service functions.
 
 
More Articles & News:
 
Silopilot Makes Solids Inventory Measurement Easy
The new Silopilot FMM20 is a low-cost, versatile electro-mechanical level measuring device from Endress+Hauser. The uncomplicated, but ruggedly-constructed instrument is unaffected by silo geometry, dust, temperature, low dielectric values and static electricity.
 
Robot Palletising System For Christmas Island Phosphates
A high speed robot palletising system was recently sold by Accuweigh's Perth branch for palletising bags of phosphate stacked onto rope slings used for lifting the palletised loads into ships for transportation.

Oaky North Conveyors Rely on Dodge CST Controlled Start Transmission
The Oaky North mine located in Queensland's Bowen-Basin is currently delivering around 5 million tonnes per annum of high quality export coking coal for its joint venture operators Xstrata.
 
The Choice for Ducting is Clear
ClearFlex from Eximo is a lightweight and very flexible PVC ducting with a high bend radius which can be used for the suction of air, fumes and light dusts. ClearFlex offers excellent flexibility and good compressibility and is supplied in 10 m rolls or cut lengths to order.

Introducing the Fitz-cM Classifier Mill
The Fitzpatrick Company, well known supplier of the FitzMill Comminutor for over 70 years, is now introducing the Fitz-cM Classifier Mill.  Fitzpatrick brings their background of supplying high quality precision process equipment to Classifier Mill Technology.
 
New Premises Provide Customer Beneifts
Australian Filling & Packaging Machines new premises lets customers assemble and trial equipment prior to installation.  This includes powder fillers, conveyor systems, cap tighteners,  check-weighers & metal detectors and other equipment required to fully complete a system.

BeumerTechnology for Alternative Energy Sources
Dwindling resources and the resulting spike in the price of raw materials are lending ever more weight to the call for the use of alternative sources of energy. Global competition and higher production costs mean that the energy intensive cement industry in particular needs effective solutions for reducing the cost of energy.
 
Surface Area Analyzer the Micromeritics Gemini VI
Particle and Surface Sciences are pleased to announce that the Micromeritics Gemini VI Surface Area Analyzer boasts improvements that benefit those applications that require extended analysis time and greater stability.

Split Shaft Seals For Dry Powder Processes
MECO's AH-series custom shaft seals are designed to simplify installation, routine cleaning and maintenance. These patented seals are ideal for dry, abrasive powder processes in food, chemical and pharmaceutical industries, where frequent product changes and wash-downs are required.

Coding Your Way to Success
In earlier years small manufacturers had to use a rubber stamp, ticket price gun, hot foil coding, contract packer or preorder their labels with information pre-printed onto the labels such as used by dates and batch numbers.

Ultrasonic Thickness Gauge
Pacific Sensor Technologies Ultrasonic Thickness Gauge PST-TM8812 is used for measuring thickness and corrosion of pressure vessels, chemical equipment, boilers, oil storage tanks, etc.

New Sifter In Tripax Range
Tripax Engineering has introduced a new small sifter into its range of powder handling equipment.Constructed from stainless steel to food industry standards the small sifter has a capacity of up to 50 kg per minute.Its simple operation and sturdy construction will offer many years of production life.

Dust Collector Upgrade at Port Kembla Cement Plant
Morgan Cement, a large-scale cement manufacturing plant based at Port Kembla, in New South Wales recently called on Donaldson Australasia to make an upgrade to its bulk handling technology.
 
Clemex Powder Disperser
The Clemex Dry Powder Disperser, distributed by Particle and Surface Sciences Australia, is a powerful software-controlled dispersion unit for dry powders.
 
iBulk: Finding the Sweet Spot
When a client came to iBulk with a problem we, as always, went in search of the answer.  The question was how to screen 120tph of sugar into graded and caster sugar.
 
Stainless Swing Down Bulk Bag Filler Brings Fill Head To Operator
A new Flexicon bulk bag filler features all-stainless construction finished to industrial, food, dairy and pharmaceutical standards and a pivot-down fill head that enables the operator to connect empty bags at floor level and resume filling operations rapidly.

Eximo Screw Dust Collector
The Eximo Screw Dust Collector is a bag type dust filter, which is emptied by a screw conveyor mounted in the middle of the unit and which is designed for large particles as well as high air and waste volumes.
 
Miniature Overload Protected Torque Transducer
The Interface Model MRT2 Miniature Overload Protected Reaction Torque Transducer from AMS Instrumentation & Calibration, features low deflection and high torsional stiffness.

The Plus in Screening
The Interface Model MRT2 Miniature Overload Protected Reaction Torque Transducer from AMS Instrumentation & Calibration, features low deflection and high torsional stiffness.

Budpak's Bulk Bag Fillers For S.A. Zircon Mine
Bud-Pak recently installed a gross weigh bulk bag filler at the Mindarie Zircon Mine Site in South Australia, for filling bulk bags with Zircon. The bulk bag filling station is designed to handle free flowing heavy mineral concentrate at a rate of 10 x 2000kg bulk bags per hour.

 
Top 50 Most Visited Suppliers in 2008:

The rating for our top 50 suppliers in 2008, is based on the number of times each companys listing on the Suppliers Directory of the PowderHandling web site has been viewed by users of the web site.


The 50 most popular companies on the Suppliers Directory in 2008 were:-

1.
Nu-Con Group
2.
Kinder & Co
3. Bulk Materials Handling
4. WAM Australia
5. Accuweigh
6. Fresco Systems
7. BudPak
8. Flexicon Corporation
9. Caps Australia
10. Active Weighing Solutions
11. Tetra Pak Marketing
12. Chemical Plant & Engineering
13. Klausen Process Machinery
14. Trelleborg Engineered Systems
15. Sallmann Engineering Services
16. Hisen Sampling Equipment
17. Rendertech
18. AIMS Industrial
19. Donaldson Australasia
20. JW Industrial Instruments
21. Matcon Pacific
22. BulkNet
23. NDA Engineering
24. Eximo
25. BFM Global
26. Kockums Bulk Systems
27. NTR Engineers
28. MikroPul Australia
29. Rotor Tech Developments
30. Innovative Conveying Systems International
31. WJB Engineering
32. JS Melbourne Controls
33. Control Automation
34. Downfields Engineering
35. Kelba (Australia)
36. Aust-Mech
37. Control Overload
38. Bulk Handling Global
39. Tuthill Australia
40. Endress Hauser Australia
41. Bulk Materials Engineering
42. Gardner Denver Industries
43. Particle & Surface Sciences
44. Ernest Fleming Machinery
45. Fanquip
46. Baldor Australia
47. PDA Blower Company
48. CAS Enterprises
49. Polex Environmental Engineering
50. Flow Force Technologies
 
If your company does not feature in the top 50 rankings, contact us to find out how you can get better exposure to your target market in 2009.
 
Platinum Sponsors:
 
           
 
 
Want to become a Platinum Sponsor? Contact us to find out more.
 
 
Final Thought:
 
"A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
 
Contact Details:
 
For more information, contact Paul Nutter on 0431 022 066 or by email at paul@engineeredmarketing.com.au
 
 

Platinum Members

Visit Nu-Con Group of Companies's Profile
Visit Pressure Systems Pty Ltd's Profile

Gold Members

Visit Fresco Systems Australasia's Profile Visit Ansac Pty Ltd's Profile Visit Bulkquip Pty Ltd's Profile Visit WAM Australia Pty Ltd's Profile Visit Dust Collector Rentals's Profile

Sponsors

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