Solids and Powder Processing Equipment Reference Materials

Description: This article examines several guidelines to help you conduct successful mixing trials. Mixing trials can be performed at your plant using trial rental equipment or at the mixer manufacturer's ...

Description: Unanticipated demand spikes, product line expansions and process improvements generally spell good business. But they may also spell the sudden need for processing equipment. When new equipment is too ...

Description: Replace a double-arm kneader in many applications, cut operating costs substantially, and increase production. Double planetary mixers have generally been considered appropriate for mixing materials ...

Description: As with any other mixer or blender, the process of specifying a powder induction system for your application is best accomplished working closely with your mixer manufacturer, in a testing laboratory. ...

Description: Many of the advantages of mixing, blending and drying under vacuum have been recognized for years. But until recently, vacuum has also been widely misunderstood. Many processors have considered vacuum ...

Description: To provide at least a practical understanding of the effect of surfactants on liquid-liquid dispersions, a simple experiment was conducted at the Ross Test & Development Center with the objective of ...

Description: A US firm entered a joint venture with a factory in China to make concrete blocks. To mix the mortar they selected a horizontal batch blender for resistance to abrasion, easy cleaning, and compact ...

Description: A processor of gourmet coffee beans moved into new facilities with a capacity of more than a million pounds a year. The plant includes two new Munson rotary batch mixers for gentle blending and flavor ...

Description: A blender of fine teas installed a rotary mixer manufactured by Munson Machinery to keep up with increasing demand. The mixer is fast, yet gentle to avoid damaging the product, and easy to clean ...

Description: A manufacturer of environmental products containing powdered microbes, enzymes and nutrients chose a Mini Mixer from Munson Machinery to provide fast, uniform and gentle blending. ...

Description: A company dedicated to producing environmentally friendly cement-based products uses a Rotary Batch Mixer from Munson Machinery for dry blending of non silica based sands and byproducts of coal ...

Description: A manufacturer of products from high-density tungsten-based alloys switched from purchasing blended metal powders to buying raw powders for in-house blending using rotary batch mixers from Munson ...

Description: New England Coffee installed a Munson rotary batch blender to meet increased demand because of its gentle, but fast and thorough, blending of coffee beans with added liquid flavorings. ...

Description: General Cable produces insulation and jacket materials for wiring products by blending temperature-sensitive thermoplastic resin pellets with solid and liquid additives in a rotary batch mixer from ...

Description: When a concrete and ready-mix producer moved to a new plant, the mixing process was redesigned to include batching with a rotary batch mixer for greater quality control over the ingredient ...

Description: A manufacturer uses a Munson rotary drum mixer for thorough mixing of a polymer-cement coating, and a paddle mixer with incorporated choppers to blend PVC with wood fibers and other ingredients. ...

Description: Powder metallurgy now provides about 10kg of the components of an average car. The most important raw material in this process is high-performance iron powder, prepared into press-ready premixes. ...

Description: Paddle blenders from Munson Machinery at the world's largest independent compounder of cellulose help meet the growing demand for scented plastics. ...

Description: Givaudan Flavors Corp. processes natural ingredients including roots, bark, beans and nuts on a mass scale, placing high demands on its Munson size reduction equipment. ...

Description: A beverage producer has used a rotary batch mixer made by Munson Machinery to blend 10 million pounds of tea per year for about 15 years, and expects it to continue far into the future. ...

Description: The leading supplier of hard plastic melamine school furniture molds components from a mixture of resin, wood flour and pigments. A Munson ribbon blender with an integral "intensifier bar" cut ...

Description: A new manufacturing plant producing concrete mixes containing coal combustion byproducts achieved profitability with a mixer producing 100% uniform blends rapidly while preventing product degradation ...

Description: A supplier of specialized animal feeds improved its research lab's quality control with a new rotary batch blender that's easy to clean out completely between batches of test formulations. ...

Description: When Bonide Products, Inc., moved to new and larger facilities, an important consideration was the selection of mixing equipment to achieve a homogeneous mix that meets government standards. ...

Description: A manufacturer of pharmaceutical glass relies on Munson Glass Batchers for thorough mixing of multiple ingredients including sand, cullet and other ingredients, some in quantities of 1% or less. ...

Description: A rapidly-growing nutraceuticals manufacturer installed a rotary batch mixer from Munson Machinery to increase capacity and reduce labor and downtime while achieving 100% mixing uniformity. ...

Description: A manufacturer of nutritional supplements selected a Munson rotary batch mixer to increase capacity, minimize cost per volume of material, achieve uniform blends and meet FDA standards in limited ...

Description: A supplier of ferrous and non-ferrous powder metals added a Munson rotary batch mixer which handles batches from 22.5 tons down to 2.25 tons with equal efficiency and 100% batch uniformity. ...

Description: An industry leader in inoculants, a mixture of live soil fungi and bacteria, needed a blending system that would ensure equal and thorough distribution of both organisms. ...

Description: A Romanian producer of metallurgy and welding powders improved efficiency by installing Munson rotary batch blenders for gentle, thorough mixing of various batch sizes of many compositions. ...

Description: The world's largest manufacturer of parts made by powder metallurgy relies on a rotary batch mixer from Munson Machinery to process millions of pounds of powder every year. ...

Description: A manufacturer of dental products, needing increased capacity, found that a Munson ribbon blender was the most economical mixer capable of efficiently blending dissimilar ingredients in a range of ...

Description: A bulk sweetener formed in 3x6x9-inch bricks each 5-7 pounds, brittle but tough and sticky if it gets hot or wet, needed to be reduced to pieces ¼ inch in diameter or smaller. ...

Description: An aerospace and defense contractor fabricates parts from tungsten heavy alloys and other refractory metals. A Munson screen classifying cutter allows them to reclaim and reuse scrap materials. ...

Description: A major plastics thermoformer installed 20 screen classifying cutters from Munson Machinery Co. to assure efficient granulation and sizing of its process scrap. ...

Description: Indonesia's first state-of-the-art organic cinnamon-processing plant includes a Munson screen classifying cutter and rotary continuous mixer for high-quality processing with minimum dust. ...

Description: When replacing coal with an alternative fuel comprised of recycled waste materials, a cement producer chose flexible screw conveyors to convey and weigh pulverized fuel ash to the fuel preparation ...

Description: This disclosure deals with a new booth filter that has demonstrated improved paint retention characteristics when compared to booth filters that are currently available. This new filter incorporates a ...

Description: Many industries benefit from the gentle, rapid distributive mixing that is unique with the Rollo-Mixer® solids processors by Continental Products Corp. The Rollo Mixers ability to agglomerate, ...

Description: Technological advances in Hot Isostatic Pressing (HIP) are creating a new generation of application opportunities to improve the performance and durability of critical parts and materials. New press ...

Description: The speed of manufacturing demands systems that can keep plants in production. Many factors can result in production slowdowns; however, most of these challenges can be overcome with the proper ...

Description: Properties inherent to peristaltic pumps, and features designed into Masterflex® digital pump drives, make these pumps ideal for laboratory and process dispensing applications. Accuracies in the ...

Description: In order to ensure successful operation of a mixer in a specific application, it is necessary to select the proper size mixer, operating speed amd propeller. We offer numerous possibilities. ...

Description: The use of nano-particles in bulk solid materials has led to enhanced ability of these materials. There is a movement in industry to create large size particles (agglomerates) with a high degree of ...

Description: Engineers must often control the mass flow rate from a handling system by using a volumetric feed device. This poses several problems. Accurate control requires three conditions: consistent bulk ...

Description: In process design, the solution to a segregation problem can be attacked from two angles. The process can be modified to accommodate segregation patterns caused by the various mechanisms or changes ...

Description: Some 15 years ago, DBR recognized that Cambridge Viscosity's technology had characteristics of significant value in analyzing live oil, including requiring very small sample volumes to produce highly ...

Description: Many of today's products contain or are in the form of emulsions. It is but natural that, as a mixing company, we devote a special report on preparing stable, high-quality emulsions. An emulsion, made ...

Description: The Whirlwind air classifier with a dynamic mechanical rotor, provides two advantages over gravitational inertial classifiers and wash screws. First, very little aggregate is lost during the fines ...

Description: Military and law enforcement personnel use aiming assistance products from Laser Devices to make their weapons more accurate. Laser Devices supplies the DoD with laser and infrared aiming devices and ...

Description: Solid-solid product formulations are mixed to meet a variety of objectives. These include blending of ingredients (such as in the preparation of animal feeds, fertilizer, glass batches, food products, ...

Description: Efficiencies inherent in conveyor belt systems are widely recognized in the food processing and related industries. But damage can occur when delicate, small footprint products are transferred between ...

Description: The high-shear rotor/stator mixer (HSM), once relegated to a relatively narrow niche of mixing applications, has become a mainstay in many applications in the chemical process industries (CPI). The ...

Description: Alpenrose Dairy goes beyond being a producer of high quality dairy products; it is a family fun center. There is Alpenrose Stadium, "Dairyville", the Quarter-Midget Racing Arena, an Outdoor Velodrome, ...

Description: What do restaurant grease trap waste and bat guano have in common? Jay Minear, owner of DJ Environmental, can handle both. By using a sophisticated system to pretreat and dewater grease trap waste and ...

Description: King Quarry - Northern Wisconsin's foremost producer and supplier of natural stone products, was established in 1958 and is located in the picturesque community of Sugar Camp, Wisconsin. King Quarry ...

Description: Quad City Brick & Stone, Bettendorf, IA processes Indiana Limestone, Wisconsin Limestone, Rustic and Cocoa to produce face brick, cut stone and retaining walls. To expand capabilities and increase ...

Description: The Tewksbury Water Treatment Plant in northern Massachusetts is using a vacuum filtration/dewatering system to dewater up to 8,000 gpd of settled residuals produced during the clarification of 3mgd ...

Description: Did you know that song of the larger volume stone shops will consume well over 200 gpm of water daily? That's a lot of water. So what do you do with 20,000 to 100,000 gallons or more of wastewater a ...

Description: In any screening application, achieving top-quality product and peak efficiency requires careful screen selection. This article explains how to choose the right woven wire screen for your application. ...

Description: Whether your screener scalps, removes fines, or grades material, the machine's failure can have costly consequences. A torn or otherwise compromised screen can force you to reprocess material, scrap ...

Description: Rheology modifiers, commonly referred to as thickeners or viscosifiers, are everpresent in most products. The use of these additives cut across several process industries including food, ...

Description: In processing plants around the world, ribbon blenders are used to mix many thousands of products, from fertilizers and plastic resins to flavored coffees and cosmetics. The ribbon blender is one of ...

Description: As competition in virtually all industries intensifies and becomes more global, all manufacturers Are trying to do more with less in order to remain competitive. On the process line, that means ...

Description: Since most industrial processes don't take place in a beaker, we must always consider the real world behavior of high-shear batch mixers in large vessels. Thinking on a molecular level, we ask, "How ...

Description: Crest Foods Company Incorporated, located 90 miles west of Chicago in Ashton, IL is an independent food manufacturing company established in 1946. Crest Foods has three business divisions: Contract ...

Description: Low profile separators help material processors meet the demanding expectations of today's marketplace. Quality of packaged materials must be unquestionable with the demands of society today. The ...

Description: This article will demystify the set-up and operation of a round vibratory screen separator. The effect of the input control parameters: top weight force, bottom weight force and lead angle are defined ...

Description: Screen blinding occurs when the screen mesh openings are blocked or closed by the material which is being screened. Near size particles become trapped or build up on the wires effectively blocking the ...

Description: Nanotechnology requires extreme high resolution and accuracy and at the same time long travel range. Improvement in accuracy can be achieved with mechatronic design principals and integration of piezo ...

Description: For many years, the problem of odour control has plagued the sewage treatment industry, but speciality chemical distributor Univar is pioneering a use for potassium permanganate to eliminate these ...

Description: When evaluating a dry solids feeder manufacturer, with the intent to purchase equipment, there are a number of factors that should be taken into consideration before making a decision. The following ...

Description: Acrison manufactures a number of different model dry solids metering mechanisms which, in their basic configuration, are identified as volumetric feeders. However, many of these model feeders (or ...

Description: AC Motor - AC Motors may be operated at a constant speed, without variable speed control, or may be furnished with a variable frequency controller for variable speed control. Variable speed AC Motors ...

Description: The following selections encompass a very small segment of the many thousands of products and materials successfully metered by Acrison's various model volumetric and gravimetric dry materials ...

Description: Brick and Tile Corporation of Lawrenceville located in Lawrenceville, Virginia is a manufacturer of bricks for building both residential and commercial structures. Due to high demand of their ...

Description: Carbon black, titanium dioxide, metal powders, fly ash, and fumed silica are just a few examples of materials we've learned to handle well over the last 40 years. ...

Description: Our line of streamout feeders can spread seasonings and other ingredients across conveyors ranging in width from 8 inches to more than 60 inches. In the production of pasta, tortillas, breads, snack ...

Description: Ingredient-wise, pet food recipes are using more enrichments, flavorings, colors and fillers, added at higher accuracies than ever before. It's why our MECHATRON® screw feeders, DEA weighbelt ...

Description: Sanitary-grade equipment produced from certified materials that can precisely meter ingredients at rates ranging from 5 grams per minute to tons per hour and thereafter, cleaned-in-place. Those ...

Description: For over 40 years, Schenck AccuRate has worked closely with both large and small plastics compounders providing superior feeding systems for resins and additives. From feeding colors to wood flour, ...

Description: As the use of FIBCs (Flexible Intermediate Bulk Containers) or bulk bags in the transportation and processing of bulk materials continues to grow, so does the research and study of how to improve ...

Description: Over the past forty years, Acrison has established itself as an industry leading authority in dry bulk solids handling, specifically the precision metering of dry solid ingredients by volume or weight ...

Description: Our client, a federal governing agency in Colombia, mandated by a decision by the Ministry of Health, was to prepare and implement a program to standardize on equipment to fortify and enrich the ...

Description: Lani Belgium specializes in short runs of crisps - typically up to around 1000 packs of any one flavor. It doesn't have dedicated lines for each flavor so its feeders are continually being cleaned, ...

Description: Salting in the cheese industry is a high precision task, that can either make or break the quality of the finished cheese - particularly as the product is under the considerable scrutiny of an ...

Description: Acrison International has recently commissioned a new BDF weigh feeder at Jackdaw, the leading nylon compounder in the UK, bringing the total of Acrison feeders within this harsh environment to 16. ...

Description: Acrison International have recently commissioned two loss in weight feeders and two volumetric feeders on the self raising flour line at millers, W Nelstrop & Company Ltd. The remotely controlled new ...

Description: Buddy's Plant Plus Corp. sought to optimize its production of water-soluble fertilizer and to reduce labor costs at its Ballinger, TX, plant. Loss-in-weight feeders and enclosed continuous blenders ...

Description: When the UK's leading chocolate manufacturer, Cadbury Trebor Bassett, wanted to upgrade its Bournvita plant at Chirk, the company set very stringent specifications for the equipment to replace its ...

Description: Next time you sling on your jeans, consider the expertise involved in the denim laundry business. A specialist range of detergents, enzymes, softeners and other chemicals are used to wash jeans ...

Description: DuPont de Nemours in Dordrecht, Holland has picked Acrison International for the supply of a number of loss-in-weight feeders on its Delrin® production lines. The investment in new equipment ...

Description: As the world's number one producer of acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) plastics, General Electric Plastics is by no means a small manufacturing facility. The Ottawa, Ill., plant supplies the ...

Description: Tara Foods, Albany, Ga., makes peanut butter for retail and institutional markets. Kroger distributes most of the peanut butter under the Kroger brand name, but Tara Foods also makes peanut butter ...

Description: Jackdaw Polymers, leading supplier of nylon-based compounds to the technical moulding industry, has installed 3 Acrison feeders in its prestigious new pilot plant facility. The pilot plant will handle ...

Description: Bandex S.A., located in San Luis, Argentina, manufactures disposable containers and plates from expanded polystyrene (EPS). The production line extrudes and thermoforms virgin polystyrene, recycled ...

Description: For any edible product, consistent colouring is an absolute imperative - and this is as true for pet foods as it is for our own food. It was the challenge of ensuring accurate colour with minimal ...

Description: When upgrading to a new plant, a plastics compounder chooses scale-based, loss-in-weight feeders like those that have contributed to the company's top-quality products for more than 20 years. We ...

Description: Compounding giant Spartech Polycom has selected Acrison International as feeder supplier for its new plastic pellet production line at its Donchery site in France. This line represents the largest of ...

Description: A manufacturer of spray applied fire-resistive materials upgrades from volumetric to loss-in-weight feeders for improved process and quality control. Isolatek International, headquartered in Stanhope, ...