Dry Processing

Bulk-bag filling system

By Wayne Labs, Senior Contributing Technical Editor

Flexicon’s mobile bulk-bag filling system features an integral metal detector/separator, tilt-down flexible screw conveyor for dust-free filling, Twin-Centerpost bulk-bag filler, air displacement vent and programmable controls housed in a SS NEMA 4X enclosure with a touch screen that graphically displays filling functions. The system detects metal in the free-fall stream of material entering the filler and ejects it through a chute that discharges into a removable drum at the rear of the unit.

Flexicon Corporation; 888-353-9426; www.flexicon.com

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Wayne Labs has more than 30 years of editorial experience in industrial automation. He served as senior technical editor for I&CS/Control Solutions magazine for 18 years where he covered software, control system hardware and sensors/transmitters. Labs ran his own consulting business and contributed feature articles to Electronic Design, Control, Control Design, Industrial Networking and Food Engineering magazines. Before joining Food Engineering, he served as a senior technical editor for Omega Engineering Inc. Labs also worked in wireless systems and served as a field engineer for GE’s Mobile Communications Division and as a systems engineer for Bucks County Emergency Services. In addition to writing technical feature articles, Wayne covers FE’s Engineering R&D section.