News items November 2014

Powerful size-reduction absolutely reproducible with digital gap width setting via display The premium model of the FRITSCH Disk Mill for efficient fine grinding of hard-brittle to medium-hard solids: Even safer due to the automatic locking of the collecting vessel and grinding chamber, even easier to operate due to the convenient motor-driven grinding gap adjustment with digital gap display. A well-designed display shows all of the parameters. Ideal for medium particle sizes in the areas of mining and metallurgy, ceramics industry, rocks and soils, glass industry, soil research. In the Disk Mill, the material to be ground is comminuted by pressure and shearing action between two counteracting grinding disks with coarse interlocking teeth. The ground material automatically falls down through the pre-set grinding gap into the collection drawer. The desired final fineness can be defined reproducibly by simply adjusting the digital setting of the gap width. Efficient premium fine grinding - Easy, motor-driven grinding gap adjustment with digital gap

• Manufacturer of special-purpose machinery L.B. Bohle Maschinen + Verfahren GmbH maintain L.B. Bohle expands its management team Investing in the future: Bohle Technology Center to be opened in March 2015 Despite a reserved investment climate in the pharmaceutical industry, L.B. Bohle Maschinen + Verfahren GmbH has used the 2014 financial year to prepare itself for the future – with a multi-million euro investment. “We might not have been able to escape the effects of the difficult market environment,” states Lorenz Bohle matter-of-factly, “but we have retained our leadership position and invested further in innovation.” At Plant 3, further progress has been made in gradually establishing lean production, meaning that production processes have been successfully optimised within a very short period of time. A sales offensive in Asia and South America, but especially in the recovered US market should see an acceleration in incoming orders across the entire product range. Platform for knowledge transfer Starting in March 2015, the Bohle

DEPRAG ensures the selection of the correct motor design for any application Winding drives can be found in many production processes: they wind continuous materials before or after their handling on spirals, rolls, reels or balls. The spectrum of material to be wound ranges from base paper of up to 10 metres wide or thin film with a thickness of 6 μm, to carbon fibre threads with low elasticity and high durability against tearing. Every material to be wound places different requirements on the winding drive due to their specific features in terms of surface, hardness, tensile strength, cross-section profile or thickness. Reams of paper with a roll diameter of around two metres for example are wound at a high speed of up to 2000 m/min. Films are a sensitive material which must be wound or unwound very precisely. The winding of metals on the other hand means that large masses are in play which influence the winding process. Pneumatic motors are safe and robust drive systems providing a drive solution for winding processes. A pneumatic vane

SMC, the world’s leading provider of pneumatics, has rolled out the CG1-Z, an updated clean-profile, round air cylinder. Customers benefit from reduced assembly and maintenance costs, with greater operational flexibility, thanks to the CG1-Z’s many new features that include the ability to make fine adjustments to the auto switch position by simply loosening the attached screw. A transparent auto switch bracket improves the visibility of the LED colour indicator, which is all part of SMC’s focus to refine and improve the performance and functionality of its products so they deliver competitive advantages. Available with female and male threads, the CG1-Z also saves space when using a female thread which is up to 52mm shorter than its male counterpart. With many mounting options, the CG1-Z can also be mounted directly by using a square rod cover, removing the need for brackets, again saving valuable space and installation time. It has a bore range of Ø20

With the new display module PLICSLED, the switching status of a sensor can be read from afar, even in strong sunlight. The module is compatible with all sensors of the plics® family with relay output: VEGASWING series 60, VEGAVIB series 60, VEGAWAVE series 60, VEGACAP series 60 and VEGAMIP series 60. Since external wiring is unnecessary, the time needed for installation is reduced to a minimum. Power is supplied via the relay electronics. The second relay output is used to control the switching status display. Depending on the module version, the switching status is displayed in the colour combination red-green or yellow-green. PLICSLED is installed directly inside the plics® sensor housing, which gives it a high degree of protection from dust and water ingress.

Over 70 years the German manufacturer ”Gebrüder Lödige Maschinenbau GmbH” has been a very progressive designer and producer of mostly horizontal mixers for a variety of applications and industries. Recently Lödige launched a new website full with information and tips on mixing, granulating, drying and coating. On this new website you will find the right solution for your problem within a few mouse clicks. Through the type of industry in which you operate or through the process you want to run you will soon find the ideal machine. Visit Lödige’s website and you will be surprised to by the convenient and useful source of information for anyone who is interested in process technology. Eskens Process Solutions represents Lödige in de Benelux.

Calog loadcell Tester Zemic Europe has the pleasure to present the new design for our Calog Loadcell Tester. This device is ideal for loadcell trouble shooting in the field. For further technical details, please visit our website. Features: Measure, source and simulate 0 to 24 mA with 1uA resolution Measure 0 to 20 V with 1mV resolution Measure -4.5 to 35 mV with 1uV resolution Measure mV, mV & Mass or Mass & mV Source mV, mV & Mass or Mass & mV Simulate mA, mA & Mass or Mass & mA Built-in 24V power supply for mA loops 2 year guarantee (batteries not included) Carry case, protective rubber boot, charger and test leads supplied as standard Deze informatie is door de leverancier zelf geplaatst.

Cen-Stat REEL SS (R-series) Newson Gale has added stainless steel as an option to the R20 / R30 / R50 range of static grounding reels. The reel housings are constructed from SS304 stainless steel. The cable is also made from SS304 stainless steel and is coated with hi-viz Cab-Lite. The new range of stainless steel reels will satisfy customer requirements for basic grounding applications in clean rooms and environments subjected to various levels of corrosion.

Extra reinforced posts for increased machine safety Qimarox has made the Securyfence safety fencing system even more robust by modifying the default post. In addition, for long safety fencing constructions, Quimarox has developed extra reinforced posts, which makes it unnecessary to use struts or other reinforcements. These posts are so sturdy that it is possible to mount a walk-in protection system to the fencing entirely free of vibration. The standard post in the Securyfence range is strengthened by turning the base plate 45 degrees. This means that bolts for anchoring to the floor are no longer located at the four corners, but at the four sides of the post. The forces exerted on the post can therefore be better absorbed and dissipated. The new, extra reinforced post has the same base plate, but has an extended U-shaped profile which provides extra strength. This post is particularly suitable for extra-long safety fencing structures and obviates the need to use struts. An additional advantage is that the shape

AVA has boosted its leading position as supplier of large-volume continuous dryers for applications in the field of the chemical industry and consolidated its market position in Asia. For a production site in Singapore an AVA Horizontal Dryer Type HTK-T 40,000 was just shipped out. The scope of supply also includes the weighting unit for the dryer as well as a vibrating feeder. The end user is the world wide leading manufacturer of SAP Super Absorbent Polymer . The HTK-T 40,000 has a weight of 60 tons, which is the same as the take-off weight of an Airbus A319 resp. the weight of a German Main Battle Tank “Leopard 2”. The overall length of the machine is 13 metres, the inner drum diameter is 2.5 metres and the inner length of the drum is more than 8 metres. Our Engineering team faced the challenge of manufacturing the huge machine parts in compliance with the tight manufacturing tolerances. Especially the shaft sealing and bearing had to be finished

Cement plant in Jeddha migrated to VAS® V5 by Axians 05-11-2014 „With the current migration of the IT-Logistic solution VAS® from version 04 to version 05, Al Safwa Cement Company (ASCC) has been different than its competitors by being more customer oriented and by introducing innovative solutions, provid-ing the basis for doubling the capacity of their plant in Saudi-Arabia. This cement plant is lo-cated in the western region and is a joint venture with Lafarge” said Eng./ Khaled Jadallah the Commercial Director of Al Safwa. Currently the yearly capacity of two million tonnes will be further increased by creating a sec-ond line that will add another 5,300 tonnes to the daily cement dispatch. The decision for mi-grating towards the new VAS® version 05, lays in the successful history of the prior roll-outs of the VAS®- templates in Lafarge cement plants within Syria and the United Arab Emirates. „VAS® offers us the possibil-ity to optimize our customer service dispatch processes in a way, that will allow us

Building weighing systems made easier. For contemporary industrial weighing, strain gage load cells are the standard. Characteristics such as a high accuracy, reliability, compact sizes and universal application contribute to their popularity. In practice, the value of correct and precise mounting of load cells is hugely under estimated. A loading assembly will assist in the tricky task of setting up load cells in the most effective manner. First of all, a good loading assembly guarantees proper force introduction, protecting against unwanted forces while providing a lift off protection at the same time. Secondly, modern loading assemblies allow for installation of the load cell during construction time, for example while welding, drilling and grinding, is done. In this way, they prevent the load cell from overload or the load cell cable accidentally being cut during mounting. As soon as the construction is finished the load cell can be installed and secured, rendering the system weighing. The Levermount

MOLOSsafe offfers the maximum safety for silo installations that are pneumatically filled Do you store the raw materials for the production in silos? Are these silos not controlled by a process control system? Do you still want a fully automated control of the silos especially during the pneumatic filling processes in order to avoid definitely a potentially overload of a silo? In this case MOLOSsafe is the absolutely right solution for you! MOLOSsafe from MOLLET is a complete and independent protection system and the best possible protection for silos that are pneumatically filled by silo-vehicles. It protects from overflow of the silos, damage of the silo tanks and filter systems by overpressure or vacuum, soiling of the manufacturing plant as well as incorrect filling. Consequently it serves for working security, value conservation of the plant and environmental protection. The basic package consists of a high level indicator, a silo filling device, a control and a signal horn. As soon as the full detector gives the signal “silo full” to the

Fast. Safe. Easy. - Discover the Possibilities! The new ANALYSETTE 28 ImageSizer is the ideal instrument for analysis of particle shape and size of dry, free-flowing powders and bulk solids in a measuring range from 20 µm to 20 mm. Via the optical analysis of particle shape and particle size, damaged particles, contaminates, agglomerates or oversized- or undersized-particles are recognized accurate and fast and can be viewed as single images. At the same time, the instrument offers a fast and efficient particle size measurement. The measuring time, depending on the sample quantity, is below 5 minutes and the result is available immediately. This makes the ANALYSETTE 28 ImageSizer the perfect measuring instrument for the easy quality control, as well as for research and for laboratory tasks – and it is the fast alternative to sieving. Fast and Economic Alternative to Sieving If you perform many and frequent sieve analyses, the ANALYSETTE 28 ImageSizer is the ideal, time-saving alternative in just three motions:

International Autumn Training 2014 More than 20 nations come together in the beautiful Allgäu region, 34 participants of our international distributors from all over the world gathered at UWT headquarters in Betzigau, Autumn Training 2014, Armin Waibel is showing the news, Markus Schalk and the guests are bowling, Winners at the bowling, The International Sales Team from UWT, Guoyan Zhang-Mailänder with Graeme Hughes (UWT UK) and Emidio Friggeri (Adpro Malta), Tamara Hoermann, Dayana Krings and Kim Heckelsmüller (UWT Export ladies), Thomas Schaefer, Uwe Niekrawietz and Armin Waibel are making bavarian music

Revolutionize the Simulation Industry Comsol , Inc. today redefines the engineering simulation market with the release of Comsol Multiphysics® software version 5.0. With the Application Builder, the power and accuracy of Comsol Multiphysics is now accessible to everyone through the use of applications. Comsol users can now build applications for use by engineering and manufacturing departments, expanding accessibility to their expertise and to cutting-edge simulation solutions. Introducing the Application Builder The Application Builder empowers the design process by allowing engineers to make available an easy-to-use application based on their Comsol Multiphysics model. Included with the Windows® operating system version of Comsol Multiphysics® 5.0, the Application Builder provides all the tools needed to build and run simulation apps. “The Application Builder is our vision for the future of simulation,” says Svante Littmarck, CEO and President of the Comsol Group. “It brings the expertise