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New managing director at Aumund27.11.2017 Aumund Fördertechnik has appointed Jens Müller, 54, joint managing director with responsibility for financial control, IT, HR, general administration, purchasing and production.
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Protecting paper sacks from weather damage27.11.2017 Beumer Group has introduced the BEUMER bag-in-bag system which quickly and reliably packs filled paper bags individually or in groups with a weather-resistant plastic film.
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Grass seeds bagged, palletised and wrapped27.11.2017 Concetti has recently delivered a complete automatic bag filling, palletising and pallet wrapping line to the Lincolnshire, UK, plant of Germinal GB, a leading supplier of forage and amenity agricultural seeds.
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40th birthday for Vortex20.11.2017 Vortex this month celebrates 40 years of designing and manufacturing slide gates, diverter valves and iris diaphragms for use in gravity flow, dilute phase and dense phase pneumatic conveying applications.
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Biggest mixing plant ever13.11.2017 Promixon recently delivered a giant hot/cold mixing combination to a major US manufacturer of luxury vinyl tiles (LVT) which are widely used for flooring.
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High-speed bagging carousel13.11.2017 STATEC BINDER has introduced the CIRCUPAC fully automatic bagging carousel which has a filling capacity of up to 1200 bags/h.
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Cassette dust filter certified as explosion safe06.11.2017 Infastaub recently introduced the latest generation of its Infa-Micron MKR cassette dust filters which are particularly suitable for demanding processes in chemical and pharmaceutical industries where dusts can occur which are either toxic or hazardous to health.
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Key Beumer appointment06.11.2017 Beumer Group has named Guido Hesse, 50, as director in charge of customer support at its head office in Beckum, Germany.
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FIBC made from PET bottle flakes06.11.2017 Starlinger presented a golden FIBC made from 100% PET bottle flakes at the 34th conference hosted by the Flexible Intermediate Bulk Container Association (FIBCA) which took place in the second week of October in Hollywood, California.
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Explosion-proof bag dump station06.11.2017 Flexicon Europe has introduced a new bag dump station with explosion-proof electrical system which contains dust emitted from manual dumping activities, compacts empty bags and conveys the material to a downstream process – if necessary at an elevated level.
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| Oktober - 2017 |
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Determining venting capacity of valve bags30.10.2017 Beumer Group has developed the BEUMER Bag Tester, a device which is easy to transport and enables users to determine precisely the venting capacity of any type of valve bag – including all paper and plastic layers, and glued areas.
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Cleanable airlock is ideal for food applications30.10.2017 Schenck Process has introduced the Global Cleanable Airlock (GCA) which has been designed for applications where dry, raw or finished products are being handled in a process where inspection or system clean-out are required.
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Inclined screw feeding without back-spill30.10.2017 Ajax Equipment has supplied copper chemicals producer Bardyke Chemicals with a 4m long inclined screw feeder for its factory in Blantyre, South Lanarkshire.
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POWTECH India23.10.2017 The well established Powder and Bulk Solids India event, part of the POWTECH World global network of trade fairs and conferences related to mechanical process engineering, has been renamed POWTECH India.
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Freeman Technology opens German office23.10.2017 UK-based powder characterisation specialist Freeman Technology has expanded its global operations with the establishment of an office in Germany.
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Bulk flow transmitter09.10.2017 Berthold Technologies has introduced the new DuoSeries LB 472 radiometric bulk flow system, which is used for precise determination of flow rate and mass flow in bulk handling industries.
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This year’s POWTECH was the most international so far09.10.2017 The 20th edition of POWTECH, which took place 26-28 September in Nuremberg, brought together 835 exhibitors from 29 countries in its six halls at the modern exhibition complex of the event’s owner and organiser NürnbergMesse GmbH.
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| September - 2017 |
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Schenck Process under new ownership25.09.2017 IK Investment Partners announced on 21st September that it had reached an agreement with private equity funds managed by Blackstone to sell Schenck Process, a global market leader in measuring and process technology.
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Dosing highly flammable dusts25.09.2017 AZO has upgraded its DOSITAINER® by adapting it to a discharge base, thereby making it suitable for use with flammable dusts and fine powders.
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Drum mixers gently blend Indian snack foods25.09.2017 Lindor reports that four of its L1000 drum mixers are homogenising tons of ethnic snacks (namkeen) daily for Haldiram’s, India’s largest sweets and snacks manufacturer.
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Upgraded vibratory conveyors18.09.2017 Key Technology has introduced new features to enhance performance of its vibratory conveyors for food processing and packaging lines.
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Unifying control for separators and decanters11.09.2017 GEA has decided to make its GEA IO control generation available for the company’s entire range of separators and decanters, in order to reduce complexity and to focus on user-friendliness.
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World’s largest tyre recycling plant11.09.2017 Zeppelin Group has started construction for its long-term collaborative partner Pyrolyx AG of the biggest tyre recycling plant ever built.
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Latest developments in vacuum pumps04.09.2017 Busch Vacuum Pumps and Systems will present on Stand 3A-305 at POWTECH its series of Mink MV claw vacuum pumps as well as its dry COBRA screw vacuum pumps, which are well suited for processes in which a high vacuum level is required.
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Flexicon launches German language website04.09.2017 Flexicon has introduced a German website to support its sales office opened just over a year ago in Aschaffenburg, north-west Bavaria, which is headed by regional sales manager Christian Löchler.
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| August - 2017 |
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Fast, hygienic open-mouth bag filling28.08.2017 Premier Tech Chronos will be featuring its latest hygienic open-mouth bagging system at POWTECH (Stand 1-223), 26-28 September, in Nuremberg.
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Active and passive explosion protection28.08.2017 IEP Technologies part of the Hoerbiger Group’s Safety Solutions Division, will on Stand 1-319 at POWTECH present a broad range of protection equipment and services for applications and industrial plants at risk of explosion.
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High-pressure rotary valve is now ATEX 2014/34/EU compliant28.08.2017 DMN-Westinghouse will at POWTECH be featuring latest versions of its HP high-pressure rotary valves which have recently obtained compliance with the ATEX Directive 2014/34/EU for equipment intended for use in potentially explosive atmospheres.
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World’s first hygienic beam load cell14.08.2017 Eilersen Electric has developed a new series of digital load cells in a hygienic (aseptic) design for dynamic weighing, process weighing, filling, packaging and general weighing applications targeted primarily at food and pharma customers.
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Bagging machine with emphasis on hygiene07.08.2017 Behn + Bates Maschinenfabrik has recently introduced the new ROTO-PACKER® ADAMS® CARE-LINE EDITION bagging machine which has been designed to fill powder-type products into single or double layer PE tubular film bags.
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| Juli - 2017 |
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Bagged milk powder with residual oxygen below 2%24.07.2017 GEA in the second quarter of 2017 won a contract to supply a complete milk powder processing plant to Open Country Dairy in New Zealand including modified atmosphere packing (MAP) that consistently provides a residual oxygen (RO) level in the sealed 25kg bags of just two per cent at the time of packing.
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Air-supported belt conveyor24.07.2017 Poeth has designed a new AirConveyor which is said to require 75% less maintenance costs after around three years’ operating time and consumes significantly less energy compared to other types of conveyor.
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Reglassing of process vessels24.07.2017 De Dietrich Process Systems is offering a service whereby older or damaged glass-lined steel equipment can be refurbished to an as-new condition using the company’s enamel spraying technology.
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Eco-friendly silo venting24.07.2017 WAMGROUP, some 20 years ago introduced the SILOTOP® which has since become a global benchmark for silo venting and dedusting applications.
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Hosokawa agrees service and spares provision for IIT equipment31.07.2017 Hosokawa Micron announced in late July that it had signed an agreement with Hippisley Ltd to acquire the intellectual property rights of Gateshead-based International Innovative Technologies Ltd (IIT) which had been put into administration earlier this year.
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Brabender opens new test centre31.07.2017 Brabender Technologie is planning to commission its new technical centre in Duisburg in time for the FAKUMA plastics industry exhibition.
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Giant starch silo in Poland31.07.2017 Mysak Group has recently built the country’s largest potato starch silo in Trzemeszno which has a capacity of 10,000t.
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Food-grade IBCs and drums for Suiker Unie products17.07.2017 Schütz reports that its Foodcert intermediate bulk containers and drums are currently being used by Dutch sugar producer Suiker Unie for storage and transport of dry sugars as well as syrups.
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Pfizer Germany converts to continuous production17.07.2017 Coperion K-Tron has supplied two feeding systems to Pfizer Manufacturing Deutschland GmbH in Freiburg, Germany, as part of a project to expand its existing plant and switch to continuous production.
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Asia’s largest milk powder production facility10.07.2017 GEA reports that its Indian office has received a major order from the AmulFed Dairy (formerly Mother Dairy) in Gandhinagar, India, a unit of Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF).
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Portable railcar vibrator03.07.2017 Martin Engineering recently launched a portable vibrator that activates the free flow of bulk materials from closed-top hopper railcars.
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Transferring meat by screw conveyor03.07.2017 Van Beek points out that screw conveyors can provide a cleaner, more efficient and safer means of transporting meat from one process machine to another, compared to belt conveyors and elevators.
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Reliable and economical moisture measurement of RDF03.07.2017 Liebherr-Mischtechnik reports that cement plants are increasingly employing its Litronic FMS II continuous moisture measurement system to monitor the quality of RDF (refuse derived fuels) such as PET plastics, composite packaging, wood chips, tyre scrap, technical rubber waste, paper and sludge.
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| Juni - 2017 |
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Schütz inaugurates new Polish factory26.06.2017 Schütz, on 22nd June officially opened its new 23,000m2 Schütz Polska Sp. z o.o. factory which is situated in Zory, some 35km south of Katowice.
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Bag placer improves bagging capacity26.06.2017 Beumer has released further technical details about its new bag placer for valve bottom bags and flat valve bags which was unveiled at interpack in May (see EBS News for week of 20 March 2017).
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Mauser Poland celebrates 5th anniversary26.06.2017 Mauser-Werke reports that its Gliwice-located subsidiary Mauser Poland, which serves customers with an extensive product range of composite intermediate bulk containers and plastic tight-head drums, has undergone continued business expansion since its opening in 2012.
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Fully testable silo protection systems19.06.2017 Hycontrol has installed integrated SPS silo protection systems at the Leeds site of Everbuild Building Products Ltd to ensure the ongoing safe and reliable pneumatic filling of two 10m high silos used to store finely powdered dolomite.
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ISO certification for Dinnissen19.06.2017 Dinnissen Process Technology reports that it has worked hard in recent months to achieve its goal of full ISO 9001:2015, ISO 14001:2015 and ISO 27001:2013 certification.
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Apollo opens factory in Thailand12.06.2017 Apollo Group in the second week of June officially opened a new production facility in the capital of Thailand, Bangkok.
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Micro-ingredient weighments system for petfood05.06.2017 Game Engineering has delivered a further micro-ingredient weighments system to a petfood manufacturer which already reports considerable improvements in product consistency.
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Cryogenic screw heat exchanger05.06.2017 Van Beek has developed a cryogenic screw heat exchanger which is designed to prepare bulk material for grinding prior to further processing.
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Digital sorting of nuts and dried fruit05.06.2017 Key Technology has recently incorporated Pixel Fusion™ into certain models of its VERYX® sorters to meet the most stringent requirements for product quality and purity.
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