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A Clean Solution: Industry-Specific Chain Hoists
Description: Many industries, such as the food industry, pharmaceutical industry, medical technology, cleaning technology or clean room technology, place special hygienic requirements on the work equipment used, ...
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Benefits of VFD Control vs. 2-Speed Control for Cranes and Hoists
Description: When comparing variable frequency drives (VFD) to 2-speed control for use in cranes and hoists, there are a variety of factors you should take into consideration. These range from load control and ...
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Crane Modernization: What are the benefits?
Description: Overhead cranes are used everywhere. From automotive production facilities to power generation plants, cranes are used day in and day out to keep businesses running. To ensure the highest levels of ...
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How Crane Monitoring Technology Can Improve Uptime
Description: As cranes and crane controls have become more sophisticated, so too has the information we can obtain from them. Not only do cranes lift and move materials that we as humans cannot, but they also ...
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Incorporating Smart Solutions into the Steelmaking Process
Description: From steel production to distribution, innovative technology helps increase your safety, uptime, and productivity. ...
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Overhead Crane Types: What's Best for Your Application?
Description: When choosing a crane for your application, it's important to understand the different types of cranes available and the features and benefits they provide. Once you have that information, you'll be ...
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Safety & Crane Controls
Description: Columbus McKinnon Material Handling Experts Jon Walters, Casey Cummins and Bob Schmitt Discuss Safety & Crane Controls ...
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Semi Vs. Fully Automated Auto-Dispatch Technology: What's the difference
Description: In a semi-automated configuration, auto-dispatch technology enables automated movement while also utilizing human assistance for precise actions. This keeps the operator closely involved in the ...
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Shackle Inspection Checklist: Six Items to Inspect Before Use
Description: Improper use or care of shackles can result in serious accidents that not only injure employees but damage property as well. To avoid this, shackle inspection is critical. In accordance with ASME ...
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The Challenges of Implementing Crane Automation
Description: Implementing automation in your facility can significantly impact the safety, uptime, and productivity of your systems and processes. Deciding where to integrate automation, determining the return on ...
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The Road to Progress: Bringing DC Crane Control into the 21st Century
Description: Direct Current Constant Potential (DCCP) control technology dates back to the late 1800s and the principles behind its simple design have not changed since then. However, just as we've progressed from ...
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The Truth about Ambient Temperature Ratings for Variable Frequency Drives
Description: Used for everything from controlling simple hoist motions to an entire crane system, variable frequency drives (VFDs) are an integral part of intelligent motion control systems. One important aspect ...
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Understanding Safety and Design Requirements of Below-the-Hook Lifters
Description: When it comes to below-the-hook lifters, there are standards in place, including ASME B30.20 and BTH-1, that outline the design, manufacture, use and inspection of this equipment. ...
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Berryhill Foods finds Sweet Success with Eriez Metal Detectors
From: EriezDescription: While Berryhill’s customers vary, their exacting standards do not. These customers demand stringent adherence to safe quality assurance measures, particularly when it comes to detecting and ...
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Improve Safety, Speed and Efficiency on Cutting & Burn Tables with Permanent Lifting Magnets
From: EriezDescription: Permanent lifting magnets are powerful magnetic devices that make quick work of loading and unloading burn/laser tables and, when properly installed and operated, provide greater safety than many ...
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Selecting the Optimal Enclosed Track System
Description: Whether you're modifying your manufacturing processes or building a new plant, choosing the right lifting system to get the job done is important. While a large overhead crane system is one way to go, ...
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Six Ways to Attack Metal Contamination to Improve Product Purity and Avoid Recalls
From: EriezDescription: The responsibility for product purity is shared by processing plants and their suppliers. Every participant throughout the process must ensure foreign contaminants are not present in the end products ...
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Lean Production: Exploring the Definition, Explanation, and Benefits
From: item America, LLCDescription: Whether you’re looking for a basic introduction to lean production or want to refresh your memory – this easy-to-follow explanation will bring you up to speed with lean. ...
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A Guide On The Distribution And Processing Of Dried Beans
From: Cablevey ConveyorsDescription: Dried beans are an important staple in many cultures around the world. They have been a part of diets for centuries, and they continue to be popular in many countries today as they are low in fat but ...
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How Is Industrial Hemp Processed?
From: Cablevey ConveyorsDescription: Industrial hemp is a versatile and sustainable resource that can be used in many industries. From hemp milk to hempcrete, hemp fiber, and biofuel, there are thousands of uses of the Cannabis Sativa ...
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Minimizing Cleaning & Maintenance Issues With A Tube Conveyor System
From: Cablevey ConveyorsDescription: According to research conducted by Cablevey in partnership with Ascend2, 54% of industrial businesses view cleaning and maintenance as their number one challenge when conveying materials. Why is this ...
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Reducing Material Breakage With A Tube Conveyor System
From: Cablevey ConveyorsDescription: In many industries, the integrity of the materials or products being conveyed is of utmost importance. This is especially true in the food processing industry, where materials are particularly ...
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Safe, Gentle, Hygienic Conveyance for Frozen Food Processing
From: Cablevey ConveyorsDescription: Maintaining safety and quality in frozen foods is a delicate process that involves the entire frozen food cold chain ...
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Tubular Drag Conveyors: Cable vs Chain Systems
From: Cablevey ConveyorsDescription: A closer look at these systems will help food manufacturers better understand which system would best support their dry food processing requirements. ...
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Why You Don't Need Much Floor Space For A Tube Conveyor System
From: Cablevey ConveyorsDescription: Did you know that 31% of managers at industrial facilities cite layout and space requirements as one of the top 3 factors that limit their ability to convey materials? That statistic is staggering ...
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Smart Manufacturing: Understanding the Benefits of Diagnostics and Analytics with Chain and Wire Rope Hoists
Description: When people think of automation for cranes and hoists, they often think of automating crane and hoist movement in a facility. But, there is another important benefit automation technology can provide ...
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How To Avoid Mechanical Failure With IIoT
From: RegalRexnordDescription: Mechanical failure has been, and continues to be, a major source of frustration within the industry - causing unplanned downtime, unexpected gaps in production and lost revenue. Advances in technology ...
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Interesting Machine Sales | Oyster Nursery Automates Sorting
From: Kason CorporationDescription: In one of our most recent machine sales, we provide an efficient, automated sorting solution for one enterprising oyster nursery based in North Carolina ...
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Types of Rollers and How They Are Used
From: MISUMI USADescription: Rollers are widely used components that serve the simple yet surprisingly diverse functions of facilitating and processing material and product movements in manufacturing and/or industrial settings. ...
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Common Questions About Dock Lifts
From: Advance Lifts, Inc.Description: Is it okay to operate the dock lifts on other than the standard 230 volt/60 cycles/3 phase power? Yes. Motors and electrical components are designed to operate on 208V/220V/230V/-240V / 440V/460V/48OV ...
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How To Select A Proper Dock Lift For Your Operation
From: Advance Lifts, Inc.Description: Hydraulic Dock Lifts have two advantages over other means of unloading trucks. 1) Level unloading from the bed of a truck is safer than any other alternative and 2) Loading Dock Lifts are the only ...
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Why Use Dock Lifts
From: Advance Lifts, Inc.Description: THE FOUR (4) PRINCIPAL REASONS FOR USING DOCK LIFTS ...
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Why Use Rail Transfer Bridges
From: Advance Lifts, Inc.Description: The primary use of rail transfer bridges is to span from floor to floor or dock to dock over railroad tracks. ...
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Custom Eriez® Feeder Plays Integral Role in Automated Pre-Roll Cannabis Unit
From: EriezDescription: Eriez' vibratory feeders are ideally suited for precise material metering applications. This case study with Accelerant Manufacturing showcases this technology in a new application: cannabis pre-roll ...
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Eriez® Feeders and Metal Detectors Improve Efficiency and Purity in Almond and Nut Processing
From: EriezDescription: Integrating Eriez' vibratory feeders and metal detectors into an almond and nut processing application improves efficiency and product purity. This case study with Valley Welding and Machine Works ...
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Shelf Life Instruction Sheet for Qualtek Electronics Heat Shrinkable Products
Description: According to our experience, the guidelines of Qualtek heat shrink products shelf life is listed in Table 1. ...
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What Are Some Good Tips For Choosing The Right Conveyor System?
From: Cablevey ConveyorsDescription: Choosing the right conveyor system can be a difficult task. Making the wrong decision could cost you in terms of money, time, and efficiency. ...
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Eriez® 76C Vibratory Feeder Helps Prevent Chipping and Breaking of Drying Tablets for Van Air Systems
From: EriezDescription: With more than 65 years of experience developing desiccant formulas at its production facilities in Lake City, PA, Van Air Systems is the original and leading manufacturer of several deliquescent ...
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How to Choose the Best Specialty Grain Conveyor
From: Cablevey ConveyorsDescription: Specialty grains (rye, oats, millet, amaranth, etc.) are delicate and need to be handled with care, which means they require a specially made conveying system. If not, then the grain will break easily ...
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How to Maintain the Quality and Safety of Frozen Foods
From: Cablevey ConveyorsDescription: Freezing is one of the most cost-effective ways of extending the long-term shelf life of many foods. ...
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Technologies and Equipment Involved in Frozen Food Packaging and Processing
From: Cablevey ConveyorsDescription: Freezing is a food preservation method that has been used for thousands of years. Today's frozen food technologies encompass numerous types of equipment and processes to preserve food. ...
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What are the Different Types of Nut Conveyors?
From: Cablevey ConveyorsDescription: Conveyor systems for food processing come in all shapes and sizes. They can even be custom-built depending on a range of factors, including the type of material that needs to be moved and the ...
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What is the Benefit of Using a Conveyor System in the Food Industry?
From: Cablevey ConveyorsDescription: Conveyor systems are mechanical material handling equipment that moves a wide range of products. ...
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What is the Best Equipment to Process Hemp?
From: Cablevey ConveyorsDescription: Hemp, a plant from the Cannabis Sativa species, is used to produce a wide variety of industrial and consumer products. Hemp was removed from the Controlled Substances Act when the 2018 Farm Bill was ...
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Commonly Used Specialty Grains in Food Processing
From: Cablevey ConveyorsDescription: In the food processing industry, many different types of grains can be used to create a variety of products. Bulk grains are those that are processed in larger quantities. Commonly, these are wheat, ...
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How to Avoid Common Issues with Specialty Grain Conveying
From: Cablevey ConveyorsDescription: In the past, grains such as wheat, corn, and soybeans have been processed with various machines, from grinders to sieves and centrifuges ...
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The Definitive Guide to Specialty Grain Conveyor Systems in Food Processing
From: Cablevey ConveyorsDescription: The food processing industry is always looking for new ways to make its processes more efficient. Each product type has a conveyor system that works best for that specific food. ...
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What are the Sanitary Standards for Conveying in Food Processing?
From: Cablevey ConveyorsDescription: In the food industry, a number of different methods can be used to move material from one point to another. Employees can work by hand, meaning that they physically carry the materials from place to ...
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Which Conveyors are the Most Sanitary for Food Processing?
From: Cablevey ConveyorsDescription: Food plants all over the world depend on conveyor systems for transporting materials. Manual material transportation is no longer an option for most of the food industry, and these systems must be ...
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Shedding Light on SPCC Secondary Containment Requirements
From: New Pig CorporationDescription: The SPCC rule requires facility owners or operators with more than 1,320 gallons of above-ground oil storage capacity or 42,000 gallons of underground oil storage capacity to have a written plan that ...
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Steel Drums 101: Which Steel Drum Should I use?
From: New Pig CorporationDescription: Many plants use steel drums in their processes. The way they are used is as varied as the thousands of types of manufacturing plants they are found in. Some of the most common uses are bulk ...
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Heat Shrink Applications & Heat Shrink Technology
Description: Qualtek heat shrinkable products include Polyolefin, Silicon, Telon, Viton, Kynar, Halogen-Free, high temp, single wall, double wall and adhesive lined tubing with varying shrink ratio, colors and ...
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How to Choose the Best Conveyor System for Fragile Materials
From: Cablevey ConveyorsDescription: In this article, we discuss all these aspects in detail to assist you in choosing the best conveyor system for fragile materials. ...
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Which Conveyors Are the Best for Fragile Materials?
From: Cablevey ConveyorsDescription: What are the best conveyors for conveying fragile materials? Which ones minimize material loss, degradation, and breakage? Which conveyors can be configured to work in a variety of environments? ...
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Fragile Materials - The Importance of Safe Conveying
From: Cablevey ConveyorsDescription: The conveyor system you choose for fragile materials impacts the quality of your final product. The more damage is done to the material, the lower the quality of the end product is. Your business ...
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How Tubular Drag Conveyors Compare to Other Conveyor Types
From: Cablevey ConveyorsDescription: Compared to other types of conveyor systems, tubular drag conveyors have several advantages, including ensuring a dust-free environment (reducing the risk of a dust explosion) and preventing foreign ...
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The Ultimate Guide to Tubular Drag Conveyors
From: Cablevey ConveyorsDescription: In order to make the right decision before investing in a new conveyor system for your production facilities, there are several factors to consider: How tubular conveyors work The differences between ...
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What Are Fragile Materials In Food Processing?
From: Cablevey ConveyorsDescription: By definition, fragile materials or products are those that easily break or fracture when handled roughly. What does this mean for the food processing industry? ...
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What are Tubular Drag Conveyors and How Do They Work?
From: Cablevey ConveyorsDescription: Tubular conveyors have been around for over five decades. They are crucial for a wide range of industries, including the food and beverage industry. This type of conveyor is an excellent material ...
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What Industries Can Tubular Drag Conveyors Be Used In?
From: Cablevey ConveyorsDescription: Tubular drag conveyors have been around for decades. However, their technology is advancing rapidly, and food manufacturers all across the globe are scrambling to incorporate them into their ...
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Production Scissors Lifts Application Guide: A White Paper
From: Advance Lifts, Inc.Description: The basic information necessary to select an appropriate lift for an application. ...
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Selection Criteria For Scissors vs VRC's
From: Advance Lifts, Inc.Description: Scissors Lift Advantages and Vertical Reciprocating Conveyor Advantages ...
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3 Ways Plastic Beats Metal
From: AirClean SystemsDescription: When making a large purchase, consumers are looking for quality, longevity, and functionality. If faced with the choice between a plastic or metal version of an item, most would think metal would be ...
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Industry Report: Intelligent Lifting Devices
From: Gorbel Inc.Description: As technology continues to transform the world of manual materials handling, more and more businesses are exploring the benefi ts of Intelligent Lifting Devices (ILDs) over manual lifting and ...
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What are the Food Safety Transportation Standards?
From: Cablevey ConveyorsDescription: Regulations and guidelines serve to improve food safety, prevent the spread of foodborne illnesses, and lower health risks. ...
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The Sanitary Compliance Guide for Frozen Food Processing and Packaging
From: Cablevey ConveyorsDescription: Food safety is a discipline that came about from a need to prevent foodborne illnesses. According to the CDC, every year, around 48 million Americans get sick from a foodborne illness. ...
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What are the FDA Regulations for Frozen Food Packaging?
From: Cablevey ConveyorsDescription: Food packaging offers a variety of benefits to manufacturers and consumers alike. It is a vital element of food safety because it protects food products from outside contamination and prolongs shelf ...
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What are the Guidelines for Producing and Packaging Frozen Food in a Sanitary Way?
From: Cablevey ConveyorsDescription: If not handled properly, food can become a breeding ground for various microbial pathogens - viruses, bacteria, fungus, and mold. It can transmit a range of diseases that can even result in the death ...
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Remembering Your Safety Training When it Counts Most
From: Andax IndustriesDescription: Organizations will face a growing shortage of experienced workers and talent gap just from the shift of Baby Boomers retiring. Although there may be valid logic and even short-term cost savings for ...
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A Complete Guide on the Biomass Energy Industry
From: Cablevey ConveyorsDescription: This guide shows green energy potential by looking at nonrenewable and renewable energy and paying particular attention to a promising renewable energy source - biomass. ...
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Biomass Energy Processing and Production
From: Cablevey ConveyorsDescription: Energy consumption around the world, but especially in industrialized societies, has been on the rise. It is estimated that most energy consumed in the world comes from non-renewable sources. Numerous ...
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Modern Equipment Used in Food Processing
From: Cablevey ConveyorsDescription: When it comes to the food processing production cycle, the equipment used can be broken down into several stages. These are characterized by specific functions during which individual unit operations ...
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The History of Biomass as a Renewable Energy Source
From: Cablevey ConveyorsDescription: Likely, most people reading this have probably come across the terms at least once or twice before. Despite the popularity of these terms, there is still a lot of uncertainty and misinformation ...
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What is Biomass?
From: Cablevey ConveyorsDescription: When it comes to energy, biomass is reserved for organic matter used as a source of energy. There are many organic materials used in bioenergy, but the majority come from plants or animal sources. ...
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Bulk Bag Discharger Ups Efficiency of Cocoa Powder Line
From: Flexicon CorporationDescription: From locally grown cocoa beans, Singapore-listed JB Cocoa manufactures and markets cocoa butter, cocoa powder and cocoa mass. Located 30 km (19 miles) from the port of Surabaya in the province of East ...
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Bulk Bag Unloading System Improves Productivity and Cleanliness for Packaging Operation
From: Flexicon CorporationDescription: GSC Packaging operates a state-of-the-art contract packaging facility, producing pouches, stick packs, envelopes and other flexible containers for packaging of food products and nutritional ...
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Bulk Bag Weigh Batching Controls Compensate for Terra Cotta Ingredient Variations
From: Flexicon CorporationDescription: To streamline batching and mixing of clay blends for different products, the company installed five bulk bag dischargers and five pairs of flexible screw conveyors from Flexicon to automatically ...
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Fruit Grower Turns to Hemp, a Dryer and Conveyor for Higher Yields
From: Flexicon CorporationDescription: On the western slopes of Mesa County along the Colorado River is the city of Palisade. Known primarily for its fruit trees and vineyards, it holds the title "Peach Capital of Colorado," but small ...
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Goya Foods Ups Output with 16 Automated Bulk Bag Dischargers
From: Flexicon CorporationDescription: Founded in 1936, Goya Foods has become the largest Hispanic-owned food company in the US. It imports ingredients from around the world to create more than 2,500 food products of Latin cuisine ...
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Hannah's Sweets Improves Manual Sack Dumping, Plant Hygiene, with Material Handling System
From: Flexicon CorporationDescription: To reduce manual bag handling and dust, and prevent pallets from entering the hygienic mixing room, the company installed a Flexicon bag dump station and pneumatic conveying system integrated with an ...
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Humanitarian Food Relief Increased Sevenfold with Bulk Handling System
From: Flexicon CorporationDescription: Breedlove Foods, Inc. produces nutritious food products for humanitarian relief in the aftermath of hurricanes, earthquakes and other catastrophic events. The non-profit company produces shelf-stable ...
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Weatherable Bulk Bag Discharger Aids Bio-Cleanup Project
From: Flexicon CorporationDescription: In 2018, bio-remediation specialist XDD Environmental won a contract to design and build a system that treats contaminated groundwater at a New Jersey site. Operating since April 2019, the system ...
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Yalumba Winery Converts to Bulk Bag Discharging of Granular Tartaric Acid
From: Flexicon CorporationDescription: Today's wine business is global and highly competitive, requiring successful wineries to respond not only to consumer preferences but also to unforeseeable fluctuations in the supply and market price ...
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Engineering Almond Processing Company Chooses Gentle, Clean Conveying
From: Cablevey ConveyorsDescription: Hilltop Ranch Inc., Ballico, Calif., a family-owned almond processing corporation that processes 50 million pounds of almonds each year, recently chose Cablevey Cable Conveyor Systems. Industry ...
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The Evolution of the Processed Foods Industry
From: Cablevey ConveyorsDescription: From farm to fork, from field to plate, from seed to shelf... More and more people are looking to learn as much about their food as possible in today's day and age. Consumers want to know where their ...
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What Are Processed Foods?
From: Cablevey ConveyorsDescription: From minimally processed food such as a salad mix or a bag of frozen fruits and vegetables to ultra-processed foods like instant meals or snack foods, processed foods make up a huge share of most ...
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Application Story - Custom Lift Table
From: Joyce/Dayton Corp.Description: Choose from the links below to download catalogs, operation & maintenance manuals, and product brochures for Joyce/Dayton products. If you need further assistance, see our Products section, or contact ...
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Application Story - Loading and Undloading Cruise Ships
From: Joyce/Dayton Corp.Description: Choose from the links below to download catalogs, operation & maintenance manuals, and product brochures for Joyce/Dayton products. If you need further assistance, see our Products section, or contact ...
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Dumping from Safety Cages Eliminated with Flexible Screw Conveyors
From: Flexicon CorporationDescription: SMK Nutra Makers, a formulator and contract manufacturer of dietary supplements and nutritional products, improved production of a protein shake sports drink by switching from manual dumping of a ...
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Hemp Processor Improves Product Quality, Reduces Waste
From: Flexicon CorporationDescription: Manitoba Harvest looked to improve the efficiency of its raw hemp seed processing operations, and the packaging of finished products for shipment to retailers. Hulled hemp seeds tend to clump and ...
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Simplicity Drives Malt Conveyor Specification at Madrid Brewery
From: Flexicon CorporationDescription: Need a simple yet effective conveying solution for a dry bulk material? Flexicon Europe rapidly provided just that to the Cervecera Peninsula craft brewery through Flexicon's Quick Ship Program. ...
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Proactive Containment Boosts the Bottom Line
From: Andax IndustriesDescription: The goal of this document is to help identify critical features that management should consider when choosing the right tool to empower employees faced with managing the risks and challenges from ...
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The Ultimate Guide to Food Processing and Processed Foods
From: Cablevey ConveyorsDescription: Food processing equipment represents an umbrella term that covers numerous machines, components, and systems used to cook, handle, prepare, preserve, package, and store different types of processed ...
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Benefits of Tarca Track
From: Gorbel Inc.Description: Increased load carrying capacity and track life- the lower section of Tarca® track is specially rolled from high carbon billet and welded to a structural steel web and top flange. This ...
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Benefits of Work Station Cranes
From: Gorbel Inc.Description: Gorbel® Work Station Cranes are a proven way to improve productivity, increase quality, and provide a safer work environment. More and more companies are using workstation bridge cranes to ...
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Bridge Cranes or Gantry Cranes or Monorails: Which is Best for You?
From: Gorbel Inc.Description: When it comes to moving extremely heavy or bulky items around your industrial facility, the best equipment to do the job will usually be an overhead crane. Because these machines avoid obstructions by ...
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Exploring the Top Advantages of Enclosed Track Workstation Cranes
From: Gorbel Inc.Description: A growing number of businesses are gravitating toward enclosed track workstation cranes to boost warehouse efficiency. With their lighter weight construction, low-maintenance design, and ease of ...
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How to Leverage the Power of Intelligent Lift-Assist Devices
From: Gorbel Inc.Description: What changes is your warehouse implementing this year to increase your operational efficiency? A lot of warehouses will be looking at factors like implementing the ABC system, optimizing receiving ...
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How to Select a Crane
From: Gorbel Inc.Description: Basic Questions You Should Ask Before Selecting an Overhead Crane System ...
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The Evolution of the Material Handling Landscape
From: Gorbel Inc.Description: As a plant manager or engineer, you likely strive to maximize productivity and worker safety while minimizing product damage. Achieving all these goals simultaneously has become increasingly ...