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Featured Article:
Cost Effective Silo Weighing Systems Increase Plant Efficiency
 Accuweigh's Adelaide branch recently fitted silo weighing systems to four existing granulation silos at Pope's Woodville plant in SA, to automatically warn operators of low product levels in each of the silo weighing systems.
Most industrial silos are fitted with multiple support legs (usually 6-8) which makes it very costly to fit load cells. To minimise project costs, pairs of the original eight support legs were modified to share a common load point which was ...
Product of the Month:
Flexicon Lime Feeder
 The Flexicon Lime Feeder simultaneously meters and conveys lime to pH neutralization tanks and pools from silos, bulk bags, 23 kg bags or any source.
Equipped with AC or DC variable speed drives, it conveys lime vertically, horizontally or at any angle; over short or long distances; over, under or around obstructions. The rugged flexible screw is the only moving part contacting lime, minimizing maintenance. It is available integrated with Flexicon bulk bag unloaders...
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Impact Weighers to India
 Adelaide manufacturer Flow Force Technologies celebrated another export success to India recently with the shipment of 6 combined impact weigher/samplers to Chennai, India for use in a mineral sands dry mill. This is Flow Force's 3rd export Order to India in recent years.
Some of the features of the units supplied include: a) built-in sweep sampler; b) manual local or automatic remote operation of the sampler; c) rated for hot mineral sand up to 120C;...
Latest Industry News:
'Ripple Mill' now available from Satake Australia
 Bulk materials processing specialists Satake Australia has acquired the manufacturing and product support rights to the 'Ripple Mill' previously manufactured by Pellet Technology Australia Ltd.
The Ripple Mill is a low speed mill for the efficient cracking of palm nuts and is also used for dehulling soy, coffee beans, oats and the pre-grinding of coal, chemicals and minerals.
"The Ripple Mill is an important addition to our processing equipment portfolio. We are now...
Product Segregation - Featured Seminar Presentation:
The topic of Product Segregation is one which is important across all sectors of the Powder Handling and Processing Industry and our next seminar, which is being held on the 27th November in conjunction with our associate web site PharmaProcessing.com.au, features an excellent presentation on this important subject.
ASSESSING THE RISK OF SEGREGATION IN POWDER HANDLING
Dave Drew, Pharmaceutical Director - Matcon Group Ltd, UK
- Definition of segregation
- Types of segregation
- Effects of segregation
- Blending risk
- Product transfer risk
- Powder flow
- Process design steps to resolve segregation
Further information on this seminar, including details of the full agenda, the seminar venue and an on-line registration form, can be found on the seminar web site.
More Articles & News:
Silo Unloader
The Hydrascrew is designed to bottom unload circular silos by means of a rotating screw revolving 360 deg. around a central pivot point in the silo base through which the product is discharged.
Load Zone Replacement Impact Bars
The force of material dropping on to a conveyor belt at a conveyor loading or transfer point can cause severe damage to the belt. Conventional impact rollers offer support across the width of the belt, but not along the entire length of the loading zone.
Local Suppliers Gain Support from Multinational
While most businesses merely discuss the concept, air and dust filtration specialist Donaldson Australasia initiates a close involvement with its local area by partnering with various small businesses to meet its needs.
NanoSight Technology
Particle and Surface Sciences are pleased to announce the launch of NanoSight Technology. NanoSight will provide a new range of products to enhance and broaden the range of particle characterization systems already offered by Particle and Surface Sciences Australia.
Heavy Duty Weighbridge For Extra Mass Permit Vehicles
Accuweigh is to supply a special build weighbridge to Rocla's Sand Quarry in Ellenbrook WA for weighing vehicles with extra mass permits.
AMS Introduces New Product
The Beamex® MC4 is a new compact-sized documenting process calibrator. Being a multifunction calibrator, the MC4 is suitable for calibrating various process parameters, such as pressure, temperature and electrical signals. As the MC4 is a documenting calibrator, calibration results are automatically stored in the MC4's memory.
High Performance Ducting Keeps The Mining Industry Clean
The mining industry relies on a number of things to keep viable. Not least of which is the proper analysis of samples - a highly important function where even the smallest amount of contamination can give the wrong result in any given exploration.
Capping Your Production Costs
The Semi-Automatic Cap Tightening (AC-1) machine is air operated, fully torque adjustable and has a variety of chucks and attachments to suit just about every screw top closure.
Shipping Container Weigher
Accuweigh's QWM branch recently supplied a shipping container weigher to allow Australian Char to accurately load shipping containers with carbonised brown coal at their production plant in the Latrobe Valley.
Gas Displacement Pycnometer for Density Analysis
For the measurement of density analysis, the Accupyc 1340 features improvements in design that allow the volume of small amounts of sample to be accurately detected and measured with enhanced reliability to within a fraction of a microliter.
Robot Palletizer Eliminates Manual Stacking of Bentonite
Budpak recently sold a robot palletizer for stacking filled bags of sodium bentonite to Arumpo Bentonite based in Mildura. The Fuji-Ace EC-61 robot palletizer will be fitted with a dust jacket for palletising 300 x 25kg bags of bentonite per hour.
Ugly Ducting Becomes the Swan
Eximo has completed the transition from tired old Speedlock to become officially nationally known as Eximo.
New from Pacific Sensor Technologies
New from Pacific Sensor Technologies the PST-PRTEMP1000IS Pressure and Temperature Recorder by Madgetech data loggers Intrinsically Safe For Hostile Environments.
Top 20 Most Visited Suppliers:
The rating for our top 20 suppliers, 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 20 most popular companies last month on the Suppliers Directory were:-
1.  Nu-Con Group
2.  Kinder & Co
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Winston Churchill
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