Dry Processing

Flexible screw conveyors

By Wayne Labs, Senior Contributing Technical Editor

Hapman’s Helix 300 Series stainless steel (SS), flexible screw conveyor earned the USDA Equipment Acceptance Certificate for use in USDA dairy grading branch facilities. The Helix P300 Series poly-component conveyor is FDA approved, featuring a UHMW polyethylene discharge and hopper that resists stains and is easily sanitized. The Helix 300 includes quick-release, tri-clover connectors for dismantling the unit without tools. The P300 model can be easily dismantled for cleaning and has an automatic power safety cutoff on the SS grate and heavy-duty SS frame.

Hapman; 800-427-6260; www.hapman.com

KEYWORDS: conveying

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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.