Material Handling and Packaging Equipment Reference Materials
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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 ...
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Accuride in Action: Making the Home of the Future a Reality
Description: The home of the future is an unending topic of speculation. But can it be more? Can it be a reality? Yes, it can-look no further than Virginia Tech's bold and visionary FutureHAUS. ...
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Accuride in Action: Moving Engineering Forward with Micado
Description: When designing a solution for more efficient aircraft production, Austrian-based smart engineering company Micado utilized Accuride's heavy-duty 9301E slides and CBHANDLE locking handle system to help ...
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Creative Home Office Design Ideas That Will Inspire Productivity
Description: Transform Your Space into a Functional and Organized Home Office with These Creative Ideas ...
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Home Design and Renovations for 2021: What Houzz's Annual Study Hints at for the New Year
Description: With 2020 in the rearview mirror, many of us are left feeling uncertain about what the new year holds. While we can't predict the future, the annual Houzz & Home Study offers some valuable insight, ...
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Slide Terminology
Description: Just in case you don't live and breathe slide products, the following information will help you gain a better understanding about the phrases we use when determining your ideal movement solution, how ...
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Custom Dock Lift for Stage Level Receiving
From: Advance Lifts, Inc.Description: This building is used for theatrical, musical, dance, and other events and the purpose for the lift is to unload trucks to the stage level. ...
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What Is A Grain Conveyor?
From: Cablevey ConveyorsDescription: Conveyor systems have had somewhat of an interesting journey throughout the history of industrial technology ...
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Best Practices in Shredding Municipal Solid Waste (MSW)
From: Vecoplan, LLCDescription: CHOOSING YOUR SOLID WASTE SHREDDER ...
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A Guide on the Production and Processing of Breakfast Cereals
From: Cablevey ConveyorsDescription: Breakfast cereal is a type of processed food made of grain and intended to be eaten with milk as a main course during the morning meal. The two main types of breakfast cereals are defined by the way ...
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Conveying Systems Comparison - Essential Considerations
From: Cablevey ConveyorsDescription: There are many types of conveying systems for you to consider when you need to gently convey dry materials, like breakfast cereal, coffee, snack foods, nuts, powders, grains, pet food, and more. ...
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Dust Explosions in the Process Industry
From: Cablevey ConveyorsDescription: Dust explosions are devastating safety incidents that may occur in a wide array of industries such as petrochemical, food, paper, and pharmaceutical. These severe incidents may result in numerous ...
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How Beer Brewing Has Evolved
From: Cablevey ConveyorsDescription: Nowadays, the beer brewing industry is all about sleek stainless steel, convenient automated equipment, and minimal physical effort on the brewer's part. ...
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How Do Dust Explosions in the Process Industry Occur?
From: Cablevey ConveyorsDescription: Unfortunately, combustible dust explosions have caused catastrophic damages and loss of life in process industries across America recently. ...
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How Do You Process Coffee Beans for Distribution?
From: Cablevey ConveyorsDescription: Growing coffee beans from seed to harvest is just one part of the entire process of delivering a specialty cup of coffee to the consumer. After harvesting the coffee plant, the real work within the ...
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How Do You Produce and Process Specialty Grains During Beer Brewing?
From: Cablevey ConveyorsDescription: Specialty grains are the main ingredients in beer recipe kits. While barley is the most common of these brewing grains, the umbrella term of specialty grains is quite complex ...
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How Grain Tube Conveyors Work
From: Cablevey ConveyorsDescription: Businesses operating in the specialty grain industry will need to rely on grain conveyor systems that are not only efficient but also safe and capable of moving significant volumes of material while ...
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How to Improve the Beer Brewing Process
From: Cablevey ConveyorsDescription: The beer industry has long been dominated by big players. For decades, commercialized beer was the norm, and there was little innovation in terms of the brewing process and the taste of beer. ...
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How to Maintain Quality in Dried Bean Processing and Distribution
From: Cablevey ConveyorsDescription: Due to their exceptional nutritional value, common dried beans are an important food worldwide. The industry has undergone wide production distribution expansions from its origins in South and Central ...
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How to Maintain the Quality and Integrity of Breakfast Cereals During Processing
From: Cablevey ConveyorsDescription: The birth of the breakfast cereal began with granula - not granola - a dry, whole-grain cereal created by baking graham flour and bran together and crumbling it. ...
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How to Prevent and Control Dust Explosions
From: Cablevey ConveyorsDescription: Dust explosions are severe safety issues affecting process industries that handle materials that generate combustible dust. According to the data collected by the US Chemical Safety Board, explosions ...
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Modern Beer Brewing Equipment
From: Cablevey ConveyorsDescription: Considering that beer is one of the oldest drinks ever produced (dating back to at least 3000 years BC), it is understandable that the beer brewing equipment and processes have changed over the ...
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Technologies and Equipment in Processing Snack Foods
From: Cablevey ConveyorsDescription: Although people usually classify snacks into two groups (sweet and salty), these dietary products may also be categorized according to the food processing technique applied in their production ...
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Technologies and Equipment Involved in Breakfast Cereal Production and Processing
From: Cablevey ConveyorsDescription: Breakfast cereal is a type of processed food made from grain and intended to be eaten as a main course. In most cases, it's served with milk, but it's not uncommon for people to eat it with yogurt or ...
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The Complete Guide on Coffee Beans Processing
From: Cablevey ConveyorsDescription: People often discuss how the region or cultivar affects the way coffee tastes, but what is equally important is how coffee is processed. ...
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The Complete Guide on How to Brew Beer Better
From: Cablevey ConveyorsDescription: Ever since its inception in the 1980s in the US, the craft beer industry has been on a steep incline. ...
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The Complete Guide on Snack Foods
From: Cablevey ConveyorsDescription: When people talk about snacks, they usually think of small portions they have between the meals. ...
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The Evolution of the Coffee Bean Industry
From: Cablevey ConveyorsDescription: On a global level, we drink about 2.25 billion cups of coffee every day. That is about 70 cups of coffee every second. No wonder coffee is one of the most valuable, legally-traded commodities in the ...
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The Evolution of the Snack Foods Industry
From: Cablevey ConveyorsDescription: Snacks play a more significant role in today's society than one might realize because snacks are more than just a little bite between meals. ...
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The Ultimate Guide to Grain Conveyor Systems 2021
From: Cablevey ConveyorsDescription: During grain handling and drying operations, the material needs to be protected against any physical and/or chemical deterioration. Therefore, it's critical to choose a grain conveyor system capable ...
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Tubular Drag Conveyors: Cable vs. Chain
From: Cablevey ConveyorsDescription: Although similar in the functionality for food processors, tubular chain and cable drag conveyors have distinct differences in components and operation. ...
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What Are the Different Kinds of Snack Foods?
From: Cablevey ConveyorsDescription: Any kind of ready-to-eat food that does not require time-consuming preparation can be referred to as snack food. Throughout history, people have had small portions of fruit and vegetables or nuts ...
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What is the Origin Story of the Breakfast Cereal?
From: Cablevey ConveyorsDescription: Very few people in the western world don't know what breakfast cereal is. However, for those of us that don't know, breakfast cereal is a type of packaged food product that's typically made out of ...
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Where Do Specialty Coffee Beans Come From?
From: Cablevey ConveyorsDescription: Specialty coffee uses single origins coffee beans that are freshly roasted and perfectly brewed. ...
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Why Are Dust Explosions Dangerous?
From: Cablevey ConveyorsDescription: According to OSHA's definition of combustible dust explosions, any combustible material can burn rapidly when in a finely divided form. If such a dust is suspended in the air in the right ...
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Turning Waste Into A Valuable Resource
From: Vecoplan, LLCDescription: VECOPLAN WASTE RECOVERY SYSTEMS PLAY A KEY ROLE IN TURNING WASTE TO ENERGY ...
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Meat Packaging (MAP) Case Study - Food & Beverage Packaging
From: Environics, Inc.Description: the history of meat packaging using modified atmosphere packaging in recent years. Specifically, it reviews the shift to pre-packed vs on site packaged meats ...
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Accuride in Action: Creating Contact-Free PPE Storage with IVM Sustainable Micrologistics
Description: To enhance the functionality of this mechanized shelf, IVM required a reliable movement solution. The company turned to Biotek, an Accuride distributor of engineering solutions, who recommended our ...
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Using Spark Blankets in Rail Maintenance
Description: A spark blanket is a type of fabricated part used in rail grinding, welding, and maintenance. Engineers may use spark blankets at multiple touchpoints from initial installation to eventual replacement ...
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KFTN Jack Screw Maintenance
From: Joyce/Dayton Corp.Description: See the steps to remove and replace the lifting screw in our keyed for traveling nut machine screw jacks. ...
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Lifting Screw Replacement
From: Joyce/Dayton Corp.Description: Watch the different techniques used to remove and replace screws in Translating and Keyed jacks. ...
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Accuride in Action: Finding Clarity with LVI
Description: About one in four people around the world suffer from visual impairment. Such impairments hinder those affected from activities most take for granted - like reading. Luckily, companies like LVI work ...
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Accuride in Action: Storing Wine in Style
Description: Offices, factories, and homes: You'll find Accuride movement solutions at work in virtually any space. You'll also find them in some very creative designs. One of those comes from an up-and-coming ...
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How to Package Optical Products Safely
Description: Excessive packaging objects will increase transportation costs, simple packaging will increase product insecurity, too complicated packaging will increase labor costs, and incomplete packaging ...
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Going Great Lengths for Customers
From: Joyce/Dayton Corp.Description: Today, they are a leader in the manufacture of coiled tubing equipment, which can be custom designed with different mast lengths and equipment. Screw jacks are used to raise the mast beams on the rear ...
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Raising the Roof on an Outdoor Theater
From: Joyce/Dayton Corp.Description: "The inherent design of the 50-ton machine screw jack from Joyce/Dayton doesn't let it backdrive under the weight of the roof panels ... a critical factor in controlling the roof safely." ...
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Designing and Manufacturing a Custom Cabinet With L-Block Shield and Cave
From: MarShieldDescription: MarShield was approached by Lawrence Livermore Laboratory to design and manufacture a custom cabinet so they could store their sources underneath. The cabinet also required a L-block shield and cave ...
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New $4 Million Pharmacy Part of Resurgence at Westerly Hospital
From: BakerDescription: Westerly Hospital recently unveiled their new $4 million pharmacy facility. Can you spot Baker's BioChemGARD cabinets in this article? ...
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Handheld Systems Installs Screws in Tight Spots
Description: Assembly Process: Automatically feed and drive, one per cycle, an M4 x 20mm long torx drive pan head screw to required 4.8 Nm torque to secure a fan clutch housing. A radial torque arm was required to ...
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In-Line Conveyor Screwdriving Station Pushes Productivity Limits
Description: When volume production becomes a problem, automating with a Visumatic Assembly Machine can be the answer -taking assembly from the Dark Ages to Automation overnight. ...
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Tabletop Assembly Machine Tackles Tight On-Center Spacing
Description: A tabletop assembly machine installing two screws per part. This straight forward platform has a simple control and basic operator interface. The portable Visumatic tabletop system is a fast-payback ...
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How to Measure for a Spiral Cage Belt
From: RegalRexnordDescription: Although there are many benefits, the spiral cage is a complex structure and measuring for the length of belting needed is more involved than a straight-running conveyor. Accuracy is important to ...
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Identifying the Specification of Woven Mesh Metal Conveyor Belts
From: RegalRexnordDescription: Given its common use, wire mesh belts can look almost identical when running on a production line. When it comes time to replace or repair a wire mesh belt, it is important to know how to identify the ...
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Cargo Fire Containment: Covering the Basics
Description: Global trade is built on our ability to safely supply commodities all over the world. This depends upon secure transport between different regions, to ensure that goods from one market can be readily ...
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Rules For Stacking Tilters/Upenders Lifts
From: Advance Lifts, Inc.Description: Many applications call for combining lifting and tilting functions. Bin-tilters are an example of doing this to feed operators bin contents at a convenient fixed height. In other applications, the ...
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Work Access Complete Design Guide
From: Advance Lifts, Inc.Description: This is a complete application guide for designing work access platform lifts ...
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Work Access Platform Lifts Application Guide
From: Advance Lifts, Inc.Description: Safety is the prime purpose of all work access lifts. They are designed to move production personnel, their tools and materials to ergonomically sound work positions to enhance both worker safety and ...
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Case Study: Assembly Line Work Platform
From: Lift Products, Inc.Description: As a result of this custom work lift platform, the customer was able to meet and exceed production goals for the new transformer assembly line. ...
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Case Study: Fluid Cylinder Production
From: Lift Products, Inc.Description: As a result of this custom engineered and fabrication upender, the customer was able to access all sides of the die during production without below hook rotation thereby increasing safety as well as ...
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Case Study: Lift Table Interchange
From: Lift Products, Inc.Description: The application for this unique lift table has to do with multiple conveyor lines moving large pallets of corrugated material though the system. The convergence of 3 conveyor lines that are at ...
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Case Study: Power Transmission Manufacturing
From: Lift Products, Inc.Description: A large manufacturer of power transmissions recently presented an interesting problem to Lift Products. The manufacturer needed to lift a heavy machine operator, negotiate (2) integrated obstructions, ...
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Exterior Wall Graphic Installation on Concrete Athletic Stadium
From: MactacDescription: When California University of Pennsylvania started a rebranding campaign, local large format digital printed and graphics installation company, 84 Sign Shop, knew it could really help the University ...
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GHS SOS! The Label Maker's Chemical Drum Compliance Survival Guide
From: MactacDescription: Chemical drum labels are changing - are you? ...
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5 Project Plans with Accuride Slides
Description: We hope these projects inspire you to create something for your home or workspace! ...
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Accuride Heavy-Duty Movement for Ever-Demanding Industry
Description: Countless applications rely on Accuride heavy-duty movement solutions. Those solutions handle max loads from 170 to over 1,300 lbs ...
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Accuride in Action: Holmberg Cases
Description: Available in materials from aluminum to ABS plastic, HBC offers cases able to carry as much as two tons. Many HBC cases include movable compartments for smaller items. Supporting these compartments ...
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Accuride in Action: The Wark Group
Description: The challenge when designing this trailer was finding a way to access the storage drawers underneath the fridge when necessary, while also keeping everything tidy and compact when not in use. The ...
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Swivel Arm
Description: The basis for this industry leading technology is the unique feed head design of our screwdriving systems. ...
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Cracking the Code - Explaining UN Ratings
From: New Pig CorporationDescription: You probably know that you need DOT packaging or some kind of special container to ship dangerous goods. You may even know that these special containers require a UN rating. But do you know what UN ...
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Lead Lined Cabinets Custom Designed for Your Needs
From: MarShieldDescription: Lead lined cabinets are utilized across a wide variety of industries including hospitals, nuclear medicine and the nuclear power industry. Some of the applications of shielded cabinets are for storing ...
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How to Measure for a Spiral Cage Belt
Description: Although there are many benefits, the spiral cage is a complex structure and measuring for the length of belting needed is more involved than a straight-running conveyor. Accuracy is important to ...
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Identifying the Specification of Woven Mesh Metal Conveyor Belts
Description: Given its common use, wire mesh belts can look almost identical when running on a production line. When it comes time to replace or repair a wire mesh belt, it is important to know how to identify the ...
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Aero Mechanical Conveyor Conveys Brake Shoe Lining Materials
From: Spiroflow Systems, Inc.Description: Installing a traditional rigid screw conveyor between the first bag dump station and a mixer. ...
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Aero Mechanical Conveyor Streamlines Workflow in Historic Brewery
From: Spiroflow Systems, Inc.Description: Creating a materials handling system that would have no effect on the quality of their beers. ...
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Asphalt Manufacturer Double Capacity & Improve Processing
From: Spiroflow Systems, Inc.Description: Bulk Bag Unloaders used to discharge major polymer additives into the asphalt production process. ...
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Bulk Bag Unloader Alleviates Back Problems for Operators At Major Industrial Coatings Manufacturer
From: Spiroflow Systems, Inc.Description: Company who produces coatings for architectural finishes needed a better way to process one of the functional chemicals used to produce its paint based product. ...
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Bulk Bag Unloader Helps Manufacturer Deliver High End Motorcycles in Top Condition
From: Spiroflow Systems, Inc.Description: How to design and install a material handling system that is extremely gentle which can handle the very fragile granular mineral clay and deliver it undamaged to the pouch filling machine. ...
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Bulk Bag Unloader Safely Discharges Explosives Powders
From: Spiroflow Systems, Inc.Description: A company located in Baxley, Georgia needed to unload an explosive powder from Bulk Bags ...
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Bulk Material Handling System Helps Recycle Water Bottles into Fiber
From: Spiroflow Systems, Inc.Description: How a Box Dumper and two Bulk Bag Unloaders deliver flake material into mixing silos ...
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Conveyor System Improves Batching Consistency for Chemique Adhesives
From: Spiroflow Systems, Inc.Description: Introducing a conveyor system to automate the batching of chemique ...
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Flexible Screw Conveyors Resolve Dust & Containment Problems for Agricultural Producer
From: Spiroflow Systems, Inc.Description: Solving dust & containment issues. ...
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High Accuracy Bulk Bag Filler Provided to World's 1st Industrial Scale Nanotube Manufacturing Facility
From: Spiroflow Systems, Inc.Description: Bulk Bag Fillers with weighing platforms that use weigh-scales or load-cells ...
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Kaolin Producer Ramps Up Production with Semi-automated CTE Bulk Bag Filling System
From: Spiroflow Systems, Inc.Description: How the most difficult to fill products can safely be packaged in stable, uniformly filled bulk bags. ...
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Lime Dosing System Operates in Extreme Outdoor Conditions
From: Spiroflow Systems, Inc.Description: Company needed a safe, efficient, reliable and accurate bag unloading, conveying, storage and dosing of Hydrated Lime (Calcium Hydroxide) into a liquid stream in preparation for an upstream process. ...
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Mobile Bulk Bag Fillers Help Recycle 36,000 Tons of Sulfur in Alaska
From: Spiroflow Systems, Inc.Description: Bulk Bag Fillers incorporate an NTEP approved weigh platform and integral powered rollers for fast and easy removal of filled bags. ...
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Mobile Bulk Bag Unloading System Transfers Chemical Powders to Dockside ISO Tankers
From: Spiroflow Systems, Inc.Description: Transfer chemicals such as Barite, Bentonite and Calcium Carbonate directly into highway transportable ISO tanks on the dockside as bulk bags were unloaded from porting ships. ...
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Shower Tray Manufacturer Increases Capacity with Bulk Bag Unloaders
From: Spiroflow Systems, Inc.Description: Finding a totally enclosed dust-tight Bulk Bag Unloader for a manufacturing plant which produces adhesives for a variety of industries. ...
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Spiroflow Dosing System Keeps Water Sweet
From: Spiroflow Systems, Inc.Description: Powdered Activated Carbon (PAC) dosing system. ...
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Spiroflow Eliminates Dust & Streamlines Material Handling for Pharmaceuticals
From: Spiroflow Systems, Inc.Description: How to eliminate dust and reduce the amount of material handling for the raw ingredients handling operation of a leading pharmaceutical company. ...
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Spiroflow Solves Cement Handling Problem for Security Products Company
From: Spiroflow Systems, Inc.Description: How to provide a completely closed robust system that could reliably convey their cement material without material build up and excessive wear on equipment. ...
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Sugar Packaging Line Solution
From: Spiroflow Systems, Inc.Description: How a bulk bag discharger would empty sugar into a larger surge hopper fitted with a bin activator. ...
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Tubular Cable Drag Conveyors Help Coffee Maker Expand Production
From: Spiroflow Systems, Inc.Description: How a conveying system can transfer coffee from 11 roasters to bagger hoppers above the packaging equipment. ...
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Waste Management Company Treats 50,000 Tons of Waste Each Year with Spiroflow Equipment
From: Spiroflow Systems, Inc.Description: A mechanical conveyor transfers product from the Bulk Bag Unloader to a very large mixing tank. ...
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Water Treatment With 'Dosing System In A Box'
From: Spiroflow Systems, Inc.Description: Containerized Dosing System that must be housed in a 20ft/6m ISO container ...
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What Happens When Something Goes Wrong?
From: Spiroflow Systems, Inc.Description: Design of a Cableflow Tubular Drag Conveyor ...
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Selecting the Ideal Conveyor
From: Spiroflow Systems, Inc.Description: Selecting the ideal conveyor can become a daunting task for the buyer who may not be aware of the advantages of the individual types. A product feasibility test is always advisable to determine the ...
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Accuride in Action: Driving Bus Conversions Forward in the Great White North
Description: Nestled in Canada's Saskatchewan Province is a growing business called Paved to Pines. Started by two college friends, Paved to Pines is making its mark in a burgeoning niche: bus-to-camper ...
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Atchison Topeka Transfers Powdered Foods from Bulk Bags to Tanker Trucks Dust Free
From: Flexicon CorporationDescription: Atchison Topeka improved the efficiency of its UK operations by consolidating multiple food distribution centers into a single facility that transfers powdered food ingredients from bulk bags into ...
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Automated Bulk Bag Weigh Batching of Salt and Whey Replaces Manual Bag Dumping, Boosts Margarine Production 50%
From: Flexicon CorporationDescription: Manual operations give way to automated milk preparation for margarine blending in a new sanitary process room at Canbra Foods, Inc. Automated controls improve quality as supervisors monitor and ...
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Automated Line Improves Sanitary Filling of Bulk Bags with Coffee Creamer Powder
From: Flexicon CorporationDescription: Anchor Products' new, automated packing line for filling bulk bags with sodium caseinate eliminates aeration experienced with a rotary sack filler, and cuts dust and packaging waste by 90%, while ...