Material Handling and Packaging Equipment Reference Materials
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Bulk Bag Filler Speeds Packaging at Kennedy Rice Mill
From: Flexicon CorporationDescription: According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), the total 2012 U.S. rice harvest is estimated at 196.3 million hundredweight (8.9 million metric tons). The vast majority of this crop comes ...
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Bulk Bag Unloader, Flexible Screw Conveyor Help Soap Maker Expand Production
From: Flexicon CorporationDescription: To scale up production and sales, Bradford Soap redesigned its material handling system from manual bag dumping to automated bulk bag unloading to deliver large quantities of raw material. The company ...
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Bulk Food Processor Boosts Capacity 3 Fold With Flexible Screw Conveyor
From: Flexicon CorporationDescription: Food and Spice Product Manufacturing Ltd. increased production of vegetable puree products from 5 tons/week to 15-20 tons/week after installing a new bulk solids handling system consisting of flexible ...
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Bulk Handling System Gives Baker Big Gains in Productivity and Economy
From: Flexicon CorporationDescription: When Simmers of Edinburgh Ltd., a specialty cookie maker, set out to modernize its process plant, the company looked for ways to improve the handling of bulk oatmeal bags used in preparing several ...
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Bulk Transfer System Triples Output of Dry Food Additive
From: Flexicon CorporationDescription: An automated product transfer system consisting of a bulk bag unloader and flexible screw conveyors tripled output of Drywite Ltd.'s dry ingredient for treating cut potatoes for mass consumption of ...
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Drum Filling and Discharge Stations Improve Blending Efficiency, Safety
From: Flexicon CorporationDescription: An automated drum transfer system enabled Metrode Products Ltd to blend separate batches of dry and wet batches simultaneously, improving worker hygiene and boosting production of welding-electrodes ...
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Flexible Screw Conveyor, Circular Separator Help Package Powdered Milk at High Rates
From: Flexicon CorporationDescription: Transylvania Vocational Services (TVS, Inc.) needed to unload 55-lb bags of dry powdered milk having various densities, convey it, and package it in 2-lb bags at a rate of 90 lb/min. ...
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Mobile Flexible Conveyor Cuts Dispersion Time by 30% at Paint Manufacturer
From: Flexicon CorporationDescription: A flexible conveyor and hopper on wheels slashed mixing time by 30% to speed throughput in manufacturing Transtar Autobody Technologies, Inc.'s automotive paints and primers. Compared to the previous ...
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Norwegian Confectionery Maker Improves Safety, Stops Dust, Discharges Bulk Bags Automatically
From: Flexicon CorporationDescription: Nidar AS, Norway's leading supplier of candy/confectionery, manufactures 150 products under 35 brands on 10 production lines. The company's plant was built in 1950 and has been updated regularly with ...
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Sealed Bulk Bag Discharger/Conveyor System Stops Dust, Cuts Cycle Times, Boosts Quality of Deodorant Chemicals
From: Flexicon CorporationDescription: In producing blue in-tank toilet bowl deodorants, Willert Home Products decreased batching time by 20%, improved accuracy of batches to 0.01%, and eliminated dust from the work area by using an ...
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Solidified Pitch Loosened with Bulk Bag Conditioner
From: Flexicon CorporationDescription: Morgan Advanced Materials & Technology Ltd needed a better way to loosen solidified pitch received in bulk bags. The solution came in the form of a BLOCK-BUSTER® Bulk Bag Conditioner, which ...
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Aquarium Systems Cuts Maintenance in Half with Flexible Screw Conveyors
From: Flexicon CorporationDescription: Aquarium Systems, a manufacturer of synthetic sea salts for hobbyists who keep salt water fish in home aquariums, had a unique problem: Several of the bulk ingredients used in making the salt caused ...
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Automated Powder Unloading Halves Batching Time
From: Flexicon CorporationDescription: In producing epoxy mastic, Polymeric Systems, Inc. cut batching time from 3.0 to 1.5 hours by switching from manual dumping of 50-lb (28 kg) bags of dry inorganic powder to automated weigh batching ...
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Automatic Bulk Bag Discharging and Powder Metering Improve Efficiency, Safety at Well Known Chemical Producer
From: Flexicon CorporationDescription: Improved production efficiency combined with intrinsically safe standards of operation for powder handling within a hazardous area are among the benefits gained by installing a fully automated bulk ...
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Bulk Bag Filler Triples Capacity at Netherlands Mineral Supplier
From: Flexicon CorporationDescription: One of the world's major producers of hydrated alumina (AL[OH]3) is TOR Processing & Trade B.V., a branch of TOR Minerals International (www.torminerals.com). From its specialty mineral processing ...
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Bulk Bag Unloaders Clean up Nutritional Products Packaging Line
From: Flexicon CorporationDescription: To operate under HACCP and other international certifications, the Orthomol Company shifted to clean room production and needed to upgrade from manual packaging to automated filling of granulated ...
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Bulk Handling System Eliminates Dust, Reduces Material Waste, and Streamlines Production of Corrugated Board
From: Flexicon CorporationDescription: The manufacture of corrugated board used in promotional and point-of-sale packaging solutions can be messy and wasteful without an integrated bulk handling and dust collection solution such as that ...
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Chemical Powders De-Lumped with Bulk Bag Conditioner
From: Flexicon CorporationDescription: DSM Coating Resins Spain S.L. is the world's largest producer of polyester resins and one of the largest producers of specialty emulsions. To produce saturated polyester resin powders used in ...
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Conveying spice blends to packaging machines without segregation, contamination
From: Flexicon CorporationDescription: World Flavors Co., Inc. blends and packages a variety of seasonings, powdered coffee and drink mixes, requiring process equipment that can prevent segregation of blended products and be sanitized ...
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Drum Dump and Conveying System Speeds Hairspray Manufacture
From: Flexicon CorporationDescription: In manufacturing hairspray, Statestrong Ltd. improved product stability, increased throughput, and eliminated dusting by installing an enclosed system consisting of a drum dumper, hopper and flexible ...
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Dual Bulk Bag Filling/Palletizing System Fills 30 Tons/H of Copper Concentrate
From: Flexicon CorporationDescription: Vale Canada Limited operates one of the largest integrated mining facilities in the world here, mining and processing ores containing nickel, copper and other metals. ...
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Dumping and Conveying a Feather-Light Material Dust-Free
From: Flexicon CorporationDescription: Synthetic amorphous silicon dioxide, otherwise known as "fumed silica," is one of the lightest substances known. Bulk density is 3 lb per cu ft (38 kg/cu m) with average particle sizes from 0.2 to 0.3 ...
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Eco-Friendly Cat Litter Pellets Moved Gently With Flexible Screw Conveyor
From: Flexicon CorporationDescription: Cat litter is usually made from sodium bentonite clay, a material that is relatively inexpensive and highly absorbent, but obtained by environmentally harmful strip mining. ...
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Flexicon Weigh Batch System Cost Effective for Lenox China
From: Flexicon CorporationDescription: Lenox China is well known as a maker of fine china which is sold through company stores and other retail outlets. The company has been in business for more than a century. ...
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Food Ingredient Distributor Enhances New Manufacturing Revenue Stream with Bulk Bag Handling Equipment
From: Flexicon CorporationDescription: KB Ingredients has sourced, mixed, packaged, and distributed ingredients to the baking and food processing industry since 2003, and currently operates a production facility in New Jersey and an ...
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Heavy-Duty Bulk Bag-Filling Station Handles Abrasive Zircon and Rutile
From: Flexicon CorporationDescription: Tronox Western Australia operates the world's largest fully integrated titanium ore and titanium dioxide (TiO2) project, covering the spectrum from mining of mineral sands through extraction and ...
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How Flexicon Flexible Screw Conveyors Help Batch, Blend and Feed Powdered Chemical Blends to packaging lines
From: Flexicon CorporationDescription: Floralife Inc. makes flower foods, pretreatments, and other chemicals used on cut flowers. The chemicals are packaged in bags ranging from 6 to 50 pounds as well as in 100-pound fiber drums, and are ...
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Investment Casting Sand and Flour Conveyed from Bulk Bags Automatically, Dust-Free
From: Flexicon CorporationDescription: O'Fallon Casting is a major manufacturer of thin-walled, nonferrous investment castings. O'Fallon's investments in automation have helped it grow. The company began using robots to move the patterns ...
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LangeTwins Winery Cuts Labor and Dust of D.E. Filtration with Flexicon Bulk Bag Weigh Batch Discharger
From: Flexicon CorporationDescription: The Lange Twins, Randall and Brad, trace their family history back five generations to their great-grandparents, Johann and Maria Lange, who emigrated from Germany to Lodi, California and rented a ...
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Lubricant producer triples capacity with bulk unloading/conveying system
From: Flexicon CorporationDescription: M & I Materials Ltd. posted increases of up to 194% in throughput of a lubricant it manufactures for electrical transformers, due primarily to the addition of a bulk bag unloader and a flexible screw ...
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Producing Peanut Butter without Jamming
From: Flexicon CorporationDescription: As is typical of peanut butter manufacturers, Sanitarium Health Foods blends several peanut varieties to give their brand a distinct flavor and aroma. The company purchases shelled and cooked peanut ...
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Scrap Tires Reduced to Crumb Rubber with Help of Bulk Bag Dischargers
From: Flexicon CorporationDescription: According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, approximately 290 million scrap tires are generated in the United States each year. As recently as 1990, most of these scrap tires took up space ...
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The Incredibly Versatile Floor Mounted Jib Crane
From: Kundel Industries, Inc.Description: Floor mounted jib cranes are the industry's most versatile crane. ...
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Dutch Compounder Cuts Labor, Improves Productivity with Bulk Bag Dischargers, Flexible Screw Conveyors
From: Flexicon CorporationDescription: An investment in bulk bag dischargers and flexible screw conveyors by compounder Styron Netherlands BV is increasing productivity, worker safety and plant cleanliness. ...
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Glorybee Foods Conveys Ingredients Having Disparate Particle Sizes and Bulk Densities without Separating Blends
From: Flexicon CorporationDescription: GloryBee Foods, founded in 1975 as a one-man operation selling honey, is a leading manufacturer and distributor of organic food products. The family-run business still sells honey and other liquid ...
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Mechanical and Pneumatic Conveyors Both Prove Best for New "Chocolate Dodger" Process at Burton's Biscuit
From: Flexicon CorporationDescription: Burton's Biscuit Co., a leading U.K. producer of biscuits and snack products, is best known for their "Jammie Dodger" sandwich made of two shortbread biscuits with jam in the centre. To build on the ...
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Offset, Gravure Ink Pigments Weighed by Bulk Bag Discharging Systems
From: Flexicon CorporationDescription: From its humble beginnings in 1971, with a rented press and a borrowed binder in an abandoned millwork factory in Pewaukee, Wisconsin, Quad Graphics (www.qg.com) has grown to become a $4.8 billion ...
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Seed Processor Contains Dust with Bulk Bag Discharger, Flexible Screw Conveyors
From: Flexicon CorporationDescription: South Pacific Seeds (SPS, www.southpacificseeds.com.au) ranks as one of the world's largest vegetable seed companies. In the 2011-2012 crop year the company produced 3,230 tons (2,930 kg) of seeds ...
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Stamping Journal Feature Article on IMI Magnetic Transporters®
Description: Industrial Magnetics' Low Profile Transporters®, used for the efficient transfer of steel blanks or parts in automated press-to-press, station-to-station, or robotic pick-and-place applications, ...
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Bulk Handling System Keeps Explosives Plant Clean
From: Flexicon CorporationDescription: Minnesota Explosives Company manufactures bulk explosives that are used to blast taconite rock into small pieces, the first step in recovering iron ore. To produce the explosive compounds, sodium ...
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Garnet Fed From Bulk Bags to Waterjet Automatically
From: Flexicon CorporationDescription: Established in 1974, this large manufacturer of machinery began cutting its carbon steel, stainless steel and polycarbonate sheet on a waterjet in 2001. ...
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Mobile Discharging of PAC from Bulk Bags Helps Solve Pesticide Overload Fast at WTW
From: Flexicon CorporationDescription: When a water treatment works in northern England faced a spike in pesticide concentration exceeding the allowable concentration limit for the incoming water, the site was forced to shut down. The ...
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Weigh Batching from Bulk Bags Ups Efficiency for Building Products Maker
From: Flexicon CorporationDescription: A fire here gutted a 9000 sq ft (837 sq m) building on the property of the Canadian head office and manufacturing and distribution center of the Henry Company, a manufacturer of commercial and ...
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Choosing The Right Conveyor For Bulk Bakery Ingredients
From: Spiroflow Systems, Inc.Description: There are many bulk material handling equipment solutions to solve processing challenges faced by bakery manufacturers. Chris Brennan from Spiroflow highlights some available options for processors ...
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How to Mark Parts Precisely even within Limited Space
Description: Due to traceability reasons, many parts and products have to be marked with codes. Finding room on a product to place traceability content is often a challenge. Manufacturers and designers tend to use ...
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Pneumatic Vacuum Conveyors Vs. Aero Mechanical Conveyors (AMCs) - Which Is Best?
From: Spiroflow Systems, Inc.Description: In this short article, we cover how pneumatic vacuum conveyors and aero mechanical conveyors work; describe their similarities and differences, and explain how to determine the best solution for a ...
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What is a MOPA Laser and What is it Used For?
Description: The term MOPA is an abbreviation for Master Oscillator Power Amplifier. The master oscillator produces the beam while the optical amplifier is used for boosting the output power.MOPA lasers (like ...
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How Laser Marketing Systems Enhance Your Operation
Description: Identifying Efficient Ways to Improve Production and Process Automation ...
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Labeling for Stand Up Pouches
Description: As packaging trends come and go, there is simultaneously a consistent need for innovative ways to label the packaged products. Continuous improvement of labeling processes is just one area of ...
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Lasers in manufacturing and packaging
From: Epilog Laser Corp.Description: It is said that there is strength in numbers. That old adage also applies to numerical tracking, which, along with other types of marking systems, is a cornerstone of the manufacturing and packaging ...
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Bulk Bag Weigh Batch System Cuts Labor, Dust, Disposal Associated with Manual Bag Dumping
From: Flexicon CorporationDescription: Nutec Ltd., a contract manufacturer and packager of animal feed and medicinal products, converted from manual dumping of 44 lb (20 kg) bags of raw material to automated, dust-free discharging of 1.1 ...
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Flexible screw conveyors help double output in confined bottling and packaging area of milk powder and powder drink mixes
From: Flexicon CorporationDescription: When sales of a product line decrease, expand. That approach paid dividends for Dairy Industries Jamaica with the help of flexible screw conveyors, which allowed the company to expand its product line ...
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CIBAO - Another Success Story
Description: On November 20, 2018 by invitation of Cementos CIBAO, a valued partner and client, HBU attended the inaugural ceremonial ribbon cutting for their new HAVER & BOECKER Packing and Palletizer dispatch ...
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Bulk Bag Filling Solution to Extend Product Shelf Life
From: Spiroflow Systems, Inc.Description: Traditionally when bag filling, the bag is inflated with air before filling commences. Filling it with nitrogen instead eliminates any oxygen within the bag, and after fill the bag can be left ...
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How do you convey a difficult product?
From: Spiroflow Systems, Inc.Description: If your product has certain characteristics that make it difficult to handle you may be asking yourself - how do you convey a difficult product? The right conveyor for your application is based on a ...
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5 Holiday Gifts You Can Make with a Laser
From: Epilog Laser Corp.Description: 5 Holiday Gifts You Can Make with a Laser Impress your friends and family this holiday season with these easy-to-make projects. October 31, 2018 by Amy Dallman It seems as though the moment Halloween ...
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Franchising vs. Starting a Business: How a Laser Machine Can Provide Autonomy and Success
From: Epilog Laser Corp.Description: Franchising vs. Starting a Business: How a Laser Machine Can Provide Autonomy and Success Learn how starting a laser business may be the best option for entrepreneurs. May 24th, 2018 by James Stanaway ...
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A clean and efficient procedure for the creation of durable high-contrast marks
Description: Metal component manufacturers apply direct markings to their products for a variety of reasons: Beyond legal regulations, there is also the need to permanently mark parts with excellent legibility to ...
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Technologically advanced, small in size, greatly effective
Description: Direct marking is required for reusable, reprocessed dental devices (such as instruments); however, many manufacturers of single-use or general-use dental products - ranging from implants to complete ...
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What does the "W" in a UN mark stand for?
From: CurTec USA, Inc.Description: Find out what the W code means in a UN rating code string. ...
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Drums for TerraCycle's new eco e-commerce platform Loop
From: CurTec USA, Inc.Description: Learn about how Terracycle is partnering with CurTec and P&G to solve the problem of disposal diapers and feminine care products using container that can be re-used over 100 times. ...
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What is the Substrate of a Carton and how does it Impact Packaging Tape Choice?
Description: In the packaging industry, the substrate of a carton refers to the type of material that the carton you are sealing is made out of. The most common type of substrate is corrugated fiberboard. ...
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Plastics More Sustainable Than Expected
From: CurTec USA, Inc.Description: Plastics are popular and have a multitude of applications. They make our lives easier, cleaner, safer and more pleasant through products such as complex smartphones, flexible food storage bags, ...
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Selektope® inventors develop revolutionary dissolvable biocide packaging system
From: CurTec USA, Inc.Description: Swedish antifouling bio-tech innovator I-Tech AB has developed a new 'drop-in, dust-free' dissolvable packaging system to enhance the way the active agent Selektope® is added to marine coatings ...
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How Tubular Drag Conveying Reduces Waste
From: Cablevey ConveyorsDescription: As material is moved through a conveyor, it faces multiple opportunities for degradation due to poor inlet design, product shearing, conveyor speed, temperature changes, friction-induced separation, ...
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Tubular Drag Conveyers Keep Rice Intact
From: Cablevey ConveyorsDescription: Leaders in the business of processing rice know that this delicate grain can be successfully transported on conveyor belt systems, but only when those systems are designed to handle goods gently. ...
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Brittle Pasta Handled Gently, Automatically with Box Dumpers, Tubular Cable Conveyors
From: Flexicon CorporationDescription: To move brittle pasta from Gaylord containers to three packaging lines at high rates without product breakage or dust, Quality Pasta Company installed two Open-Chute Box Dumpers and three ...
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Bulk Bag Dischargers Double Productivity of Fruit and Spice Ingredients
From: Flexicon CorporationDescription: Seven bulk bag dischargers have doubled productivity, from 35 tonnes to 70 tonnes (38.5 to 77 tons) per day, in an expansion project that increased Prosur's factory space from 3,000 m2 (32,000 ft2) to ...
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Bulk Bag Dischargers, Flexible Screw Conveyors Double Output at Peanut Butter Facility
From: Flexicon CorporationDescription: Two bulk bag dischargers and five flexible screw conveyors have doubled peanut butter production capacity at Once Again Nut Butter's new 37,000 sq ft (3440 sq m) dedicated peanut butter facility. The ...
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Bulk Bag Filler Boosts Pale Ale Malt Packing Output with Reduced Labour
From: Flexicon CorporationDescription: Thomas Fawcett & Sons Ltd required a more efficient system to pack pale ale malt into 350 kg (772 lb) to 1,000 kg (2,205 lb) bulk bags, sold across the UK and internationally. ...
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Flexible Screw Conveyor Moves Whey Powder for Animal Nutrition Products
From: Flexicon CorporationDescription: To move powdered products containing whey and other ingredients from a blender to a packaging machine, the plant continues to rely on a Flexicon flexible screw conveyor it purchased more than 22 years ...
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Re-Bagging Of Granular Sugar Improved With Bulk Bag Weigh Batch Discharger
From: Flexicon CorporationDescription: Welcome Food Ingredients Ltd required a more efficient system to re-bag granular sugar used to manufacture their sauces, pastes, dressings and dips for food industry customers. ...
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Case Study: Roller Supported Cable Carrier System
Description: At the Manzanillo International Terminal (MIT) in Colon, Panama, several container cranes are in operation around the clock. This requires a particularly high level of robustness and availability for ...
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Cobot Screwdriving System for Advanced Assembly
Description: Visumatic's VCM-3X.2 collaborative robot fastening system is a complete feed-and-drive package for use by machine builders. This article explains the complete system, including an automatic feeder, ...
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Application Spotlight: Flexible Packaging
Description: Flexible packaging is at the forefront of important packaging trends in product protection, design and performance, consumer convenience, and sustainability, all of which positively impact the ...
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Hazards in the Flexible Packaging Process
Description: The majority of flexible packaging is printed using either the rotogravure or the flexographic printing process...The key hazard in these processes is an explosion from the buildup of solvent vapors ...
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Deciphering Markings Molded in Plastic Drums
From: CurTec USA, Inc.Description: Many manufacturers of molded plastice include 'material clocks' or mold indicators in discrete locations on their containers. Find out what these mean and how they are used for quality control. ...
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How Can Packaging Help Keep Pigs Healthy?
From: CurTec USA, Inc.Description: When a high value product arrives damaged, everyone in the supply chain looks bad, not to mention the cost of cleaning up spilled hazardous materials and the threat to human and environmental safety a ...
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Plastic Drums as Rainwater Processing Tanks
From: CurTec USA, Inc.Description: Brewing beer from rainwater? Totally possible and being done! The German engineering company Intewa has developed a revolutionary new micro filtering technique to filter bacteria and other harmful ...
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About to Cut Wood for a Project? Follow This Advice Before You Start.
Description: Even if you can make a perfect cut, you waste that skill without proper measuring and marking. Fail at these two things and the rest of the project is might as well fail, too. Here's how to avoid ...
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Factors in Product Shelf Life
From: CurTec USA, Inc.Description: How do you maintain the optimum quality of your products for as long as possible? This brief article gives four key considerations ...
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How Long is a UN Packaging Test Report Valid?
From: CurTec USA, Inc.Description: Does the UN hazmat marking and the test certificate behind the mark ever expire? Well that depends! Find out what factors go into determining if your package has expired its UN rating certificate and ...
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Reference Guide for Chemical Resistance of Six Plastics
From: CurTec USA, Inc.Description: What chemicals can a plastic container resist and how well? This convenient technical resource gives an easy to ready guide for six plastic types and over 200 chemical compounds. ...
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Better Results & Lower Costs Lead Fastmile Logistics to Use Rubber Pallet Bands Move Quickly & Safely In The Warehouse With Cost Effective with Pallet Bands
Description: This is Why Moving Quickly & Safely In The Warehouse Proves Cost Effective with Pallet Bands ...
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Preventing Static Issues in Plastic Containers
From: CurTec USA, Inc.Description: Avoiding contamination of employees during cleaning and dust extraction operations is an important issue for pharmaceutical companies. Using conductive CurTec drums, Krahnen has developed a special ...
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The Hidden Issues of Pharmaceutical Packaging
From: CurTec USA, Inc.Description: When changing packaging, the first thing a pharmaceutical manufacturer will think of is registration: the process of acquiring approval to market a product. It is a challenge in itself, but you also ...
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Additive Manufacturing (AM) Metal Powders Require Careful Packaging
From: CurTec USA, Inc.Description: 3D printing has revived the demand for an ancient niche product, namely powdered metal. These extraordinary and expensive materials such as nickel, titanium, cobalt but also graphene, require special ...
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Hazmat Shipping Violations - The Four Most Common
From: CurTec USA, Inc.Description: Each year upon initial inspection 54% of hazardous materials are rejected for shipment. "In most cases, these hazmat violations are repetitive and easy to avoid," says Maxence Wittebolle, Director of ...
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Preventing Tablets from Breaking Down in Shipping
From: CurTec USA, Inc.Description: When making tablets, it is not only important that they contain the correct amount of active ingredients and excipients, they also need to look attractive or 'elegant' if you will. People will ...
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Are Food Enzymes Compatible with Plastic Packaging?
From: CurTec USA, Inc.Description: Review a case study on how DSM Food Specialities packages food enzymes. Learn how to help food manufacturers to get more out of their raw materials. ...
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Even Mud from the Moors Requires Good Packaging
From: CurTec USA, Inc.Description: Packaging is of great importance for the quality perception and customer acceptance of a product. Nobody wants to buy or use a product that is damaged or contaminated. Zehentmayer manufactures dietary ...
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How do you Protect UV Sensitive Materials with Packaging?
From: CurTec USA, Inc.Description: UV curable lacquers are high value liquids that require clean, safe and secure packaging. These lacquers are part of the range of coated films and blended liquids that MacDermid Autotype manufactures ...
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Packaging Specialty Chemicals
From: CurTec USA, Inc.Description: Read how one company found suitable packaging for its innovative new chemical system. Is it sometimes worth spending more money? ...
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Protecting Nutritional Supplements for Bulk Shipment
From: CurTec USA, Inc.Description: Recently Isochem needed a solution for shipping a Vitamin E derivative in an intermediate sized jar type container. Why did they select 'packos'? ...
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Providing Safe Collection Containers for Medical Hazmat
From: CurTec USA, Inc.Description: Medentex from Bielefeld (Germany) is a full service provider in the area of dental waste collection. They use CurTec screw top drums and jars as collection containers for waste containing mercury, ...
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Reusable and Sustainable Alternatives to Disposable Plastic Bags in Powder Processing
From: CurTec USA, Inc.Description: Packaging plays an important role in satisfying supply chain needs. In order to guarantee safe storage and internal distribution of pharmaceutical powders, Unither decided to replace one-way ...
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When to Choose a Custom Solution for Packaging
From: CurTec USA, Inc.Description: Synthon was looking for a new high-quality package for its tablets and capsules. They developed custom packaging that is not only easier to use and recognize but also able to reduce supply chain ...
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Label Applicator Cuts Labor Costs for Bottled Water Supplier
From: Loveshaw, an ITW CompanyDescription: Due to the warm and humid environment, employees of Rusco Packaging would utilize fans to cool their areas. Depending on the proximity of the fan to the labeler, some labels which were being tamped ...
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How Should Packaging Tape be Stored?
Description: A roll of tape is susceptible to damage before it even gets to the packaging line. The proper storage of packaging tape can make the difference between a strong carton seal and tape failure that leads ...
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Material Specifications for ASE, American Standard and Metric Hardware & Handles
From: RAF Electronic HardwareDescription: MATERIAL SPECIFICATIONS ...