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Product Focus: Mixing and blending

Bulk bag discharger with dual flexible screw conveyors

Flexicon

December 14, 2021

The BULK-OUT BFF Series discharger features top-mounted receiving cups and a removable bag-lifting frame for forklift loading of bulk bags.

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Debunking misconceptions about tubular drag conveyors

Cable and disc systems gently and precisely convey blends for a range of materials and conditions

November 30, 2021

The knowledge gap about conveyor types can result in extreme consequences when delicate materials or precise blends must be reliably conveyed.

Conveying ready-to-eat meals through production processes

Conveying Systems

Smart conveyors enable gentle handling and high throughput in ready meal production

Intelligent conveying systems maximize uptime, minimize product damage, and maintain industry standards for cleanliness

Todd Eckert

October 12, 2021

This increasing demand for frozen ready meals has pushed manufacturers to implement more streamlined and cost-efficient technology for processing and packaging, to increase uptime and throughput.

Dry processing products

Elevated conveyor conserves floor space

Multi-Conveyor

October 8, 2021

The series of powered mild-steel conveyors by Multi-Conveyor includes a unique gravity conveyor to transport tall plastic products.

Dry processing products

Mobile bulk bag discharger

Flexicon

October 6, 2021

The Mobile Bulk Bag Discharger with Mobile Flexible Screw Conveyor allows dust-free discharging of bulk solid materials and conveying to downstream process equipment or storage vessels throughout the plant.

New Plant Products

Dorner redesigns AquaPruf Conveyor with added food safety features

September 24, 2021

Dorner has redesigned its AquaPruf Conveyor, the latest iteration of its popular selling AquaPruf sanitary conveyor platform. The redesigned AquaPruf hygienically engineered stainless steel conveyor incorporates several upgraded design features to give users a platform that meets the latest sanitary standards and requirements of the food industry today.

New Plant Products

Permanent magnet AC synchronous (PMAC) motors

August 24, 2021

The VFsync line is designed for use in conveyor systems, greenhouse equipment, bottling equipment, bagging equipment, packaging machines, and industrial pumps and mixers.

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Field Reports

Enclosed Wet Cleaning Improves Food Safety, Increases Product Changeovers

National Frozen Foods Corp. installed a tubular cable conveyor system from Cablevey Conveyors to improve cleaning efficiency

Sharon Spielman

August 17, 2021

When National Frozen Foods Corp., a national processor of frozen vegetables since 1912 that processes more than 400 million lbs. of product annually, was looking to meet higher compliance standards while increasing the speed of packaging, they found a solution in a tubular conveyor system.

New Plant Products

Distributed drive system

June 16, 2021

Sinamics G115D, designed for horizontal conveyor applications, is comprised of the motor, drive and gearbox in one unit and is offered in two versions—wall-mounted and motor-mounted.

Dry Processing Technology

5-lane accumulator

June 9, 2021

New series of mild steel constructed conveyors for varying height and width products travel through dual belt merge, enclosed pneumatic diverts, massive lane accumulation, combiners, single file technology and more.