Flexicon Europe, Whitstable, UK, has introduced an ultra-heavy-duty bulk bag filling system designed to palletise and fill bulk bags with difficult-to-handle bulk materials such as

filter cake, metal powders and abrasive minerals. The system integrates a Swing-Down® bulk bag filler with a Flexicon pallet dispenser and powered chain conveyor, allowing safe, high-capacity filling of all popular bulk bag sizes, including those with wide-diameter spouts to accommodate irregular materials.

When a filling cycle is initiated by push button or contact closure, pallet dispenser forks lower the stack of pallets on to the chain conveyor, withdraw from the bottom pallet, and raise the remaining pallets, allowing the conveyor equipped with photoelectric eyes to move the dispensed pallet into position below the filling station.

The system is offered with the company's own steel-tube flexible screw conveyor integrated with the user's upstream process equipment or other material source. Last year Flexicon launched a heavy-duty bulk bag filler with Twin-Centre Post frame also design for arduous applications (see Industry News for week of 30 September 2013).  www.flexicon.co.uk

 

 

Flexicon ultra-heavy-duty bulk bag filling system showing (right) the Swing-Down fill head with wide-diameter spout seal