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Flexicon’s automated plantwide, weigh-batching system simultaneously weighs up to seven major ingredients received in bulk bags and unlimited minor ingredients received in 50-lb. (23kg) sacks, pails or boxes, and conveys weighed batches to a downstream blender that feeds a bulk bag filler and a paper sack filling machine.

Eriez ProGrade magnetic separators are available in standard magnetic plates, grates, traps and tubes.

The Readco Containerized batch mixer is a dry powder blending and processing system that can reduce batch mixing cycle times by 50 percent or more.

Meese Orbitron Dunne Company’s Ship Shape sanitary, bulk forklift containers are rotationally molded in a single piece from 100 percent USDA/FDA-approved, linear low-density polyethylene (LLDPE) to permit contact with food and beverage ingredients and finished products during storage, processing and transport without concern for contamination and without requiring an internal plastic liner.

National Bulk Equipment’s agitator hopper handles bulk materials known to generate combustible dust.

Industrial Magnetics’ portable magnetic separation solution, the cart-mounted Pneumatic Line Housing (PLH), improves product purity and protects processing equipment from tramp metal damage; its portable design allows it to be used in multiple applications within the same facility. 

Thayer Scale’s line of volumetric powder feeders handles a wide range of material bulk densities at low to medium feed rates.

Faster fill times are nice, but a host of other considerations also are part of manufacturers’ value calculations. Those needs are evident in the systems being developed.

Processors have special needs when it comes to staff and materials entering and leaving, as well as separating critical operations and zones in the plant.

Held May 12-18 in Düsseldorf, Germany, the triennial exhibition featured innovations that packed a punch.