News items March 2014

easyFairs® SCHÜTTGUT 2014, dortmund, Germany, 21-22 May 2014 Brabender Technologie GmbH & Co. KG of Duisburg, Germany, specializes in dependable feeding solutions for all bulk ingredient processing industries. At the easyFairs® SCHÜTTGUT 2014 exhibition, the company showcases a representative cross section of its comprehensive line of high-tech gravimetric metering feeders. The highlights: ● Brabender FlexWall®Plus Feeders Brabender FlexWall®Plus feeders in trapezoidal design with paddle-agitated flexible hoppers provide consistent screw filling and mass flow of ingredient without degradation since the trapezoidal shape naturally induces ingredient flow and the paddles flex the hopper to promote ingredient flow into the screw. The feeders allow quick adaptation to virtually all bulk ingredients due to interchangeable screws and easy adjustment of the paddle movement. Cleaning is quick and easy because the feeders are easily disassembled. Hence, each feeder is capable of metering a broad variety of different bulk

Innovations catalogus 2014 SMC, the world’s leading provider of pneumatics, has unveiled its 2014 Innovations Catalogue listing the very latest in cutting edge automation solutions. Recognised for the last three years by leading business magazine Forbes as one of the world’s most innovative, SMC’s continuous focus on innovation sees the company launch around 40 new products to the European market every year, with 11,000 basic products and more than 620,000 variations. Innovative design is coupled with outstanding customer support delivered by a team of 1,400 dedicated R&D engineers. SMC’s Patrick Boerdijk said: “Innovation and product development has been at the heart of our business since our foundation 53 years ago. We recognise that only by investing in R&D can we fulfil our commitment to work in partnership with our customers to improve their processes, cut their energy waste bills and ultimately increase profitability. “Our Innovation Catalogue last year was so

S+S meets the demand for the best sensitivity Al-Yemeni Cafe, a Cairo based Egyptian company, is a leading producer of ground Turkish coffee. Operating from its own 10,000 square metre factory since 1940, Al-Yemeni Cafe employs the latest state-of-the-art machinery to improve product quality and ensure customer satisfaction. The plant complies with all IFS, ISO 9001 and HACCP standards and holds many quality accreditations from external organisations. It was particularly important for this application to select metal detection systems that meet all the HACCP and IFS requirements. It is also a requirement to accurately separate material containing contamination with a swivel hopper rather than a flap which may cause problems with product deposits. Since May 2013 Al-Yemeni Cafe have been using an S+S RAPID 8000 metal detector with integral rejection systems designed specifically for free-falling bulk materials. This model was chosen because of its high sensitivity and the ease with which it will detect

Instant Soup Instant soups were first launched some 50 years ago. Initially as an additional product line for vending machines that served tea, coffee and hot chocolate. At that time, the instant soup mixes were largely supplied to the vending machine companies in bulk. The amount of choice was limited and recipes were simple (starch, salt, fat, colourings and flavourings). Since then, the world of instant soups has grown substantially, and is now a global market segment. One important accelerator has been the improved quality and variety of ingredients that has managed to keep up with ever-changing consumer tastes and expectations. These improvements, combined with rising production costs, have led manufactures to scrutinise the production processes over the past 15 or so years. At Hosokawa Micron B.V., we have followed these developments closely, and produced a new mixing technology that is perfect for the manufacture of instant soup: the Vitomix®. Process optimisation

Save time! InfiniClean does not need your touch, nor an extra power source to clean your vacuum filt Why choosing InfiniClean? The filter is one of the most important part of the industrial vacuum and maintaining it clean is a must. Why choosing InfiniClean? Because it cleans the cartridge filters periodically and sequentially without impacting the suction, allowing you to continue your working activity, without requiring any other power source such as compressed air. Moreover it is silent! The main benefits are therefore clear: • Save of time • Save of money • Top productivity • Top filtering efficiency Save time, require InfiniClean, the endless filtration system for your industrial vacuum!

BEUMER Customer Support ensures reliable intralogistic processes world-wide Machine malfunctions and breakdowns can cause long downtimes, especially in intralogistics, causing production and delivery to come to a complete halt. High-quality systems can help prevent such costly consequences beforehand, but they still require maintenance and service. This is where the BEUMER Group Customer Support experts come in: BEUMER offers qualified maintenance and service world-wide to ensure a high level of system availability. One customer, for example, is Dangote, a cement manufacturer in Nigeria. The cement manufacturer had made various service agreements with BEUMER Customer Support. "On principle, our agreements are specially designed to meet the individual requirements of the customer", explains Kornelius Thimm, head of Customer Support for BEUMER in Beckum, Germany. In order for them to be optimally tailored to meet the customer"s needs, a BEUMER service technician evaluated all of Dangote"s on-site systems. The agreements

Dual shaft stainless steel batch mixer Gericke GMS-1200 dual shaft Multiflux batch paddle mixer, stainless steel type 304, filling volume 300 - 960 liter, fluidised bed zone for spraying on liquids without the formation of agglomerates, 2x preparation for lump breaker, externally mounted bearings with air purge seals, discharge valve is missing (however, the pneumatic drive is installed), 11 kW ABB drive Product No.: 1.3A2555 See our website for all mixers and other bulk processing equipment on stock.

Precision ensures quality Rhewum GmbH presents, besides very qualitative screening machines, a complete range of optical measuring systems for particle size measuring, flow rates and for separation by colour. For these systems, high performance camera and intelligent software are used. Production processes with optical sorting are essential in reducing production costs as well as for quality assurance of the final product. Eskens represents Rhewum GmbH, machine producer located in Germany, in the Benelux. The Size Checker measures in-line and contactless particle sizes between 0.2 and 20 mm and can be used for quality control, such as monitoring after a sieving machine or mill. Even in heavy duty environment, this system can be used and comes complete with software and peripherals. The Flow Checker is provided with a 3D camera and measures, for example placed on top of a conveyor, the volume of a product stream. This is useful to monitor the capacity of a product stream, but also to detect

The new ProClean PCC 700 series is, up to now, the most powerful of the pneumatic conveying systems from HECHT. As an addition to the compact PCC-series (100-300) the PCC 700 have got more conveying power and the ability to transport your bulk solid long distances and heights. If you want further information do not hesitate to contact us.

Visiting a trade fair is not always possible and if you do manage to visit, the time you can share is often very limited. RHEWUM would like to keep in touch with their customers to ensure that they are kept up to date with the latest processing technologies. To enable this, we will send an exhibition trailer to your site. The trailer has been designed to accommodate our latest WA(U) type machine and we will hold screening demonstration sessions with RHEWUM application experts. During the sessions we will show you how you can make a step change in profitability for your company by improving the efficiency of your production line and by reducing costs realized with the latest RHEWUM screening technologies. Contact persons for your points of region: Turkey: BM ENDÜSTRİ Üsküp

AVA is one of the leading suppliers of machines and system solutions having its core competencies in mixing and drying of any kind and in any industry. One of AVA’s vital businesses lies in developing and supplying turn-key (mobile) plants for processing contaminated recyclables and wastes using high vacuum and/or high temperatures. Comprising the core elements of vacuum evaporators and condensation and exhaust air treatment units, these plants are economical alternatives to rotary kilns when it comes to throughputs of up to 10 t/h. The compact design makes them suitable for both onshore and offshore applications. As examples should be mentioned the processing of contaminated filter and decanter slurries as well as the high-vacuum treatment of mercury wastes of any kind: for instance contaminated glass from lamp recycling and evaporating explosive substances from shredded lithium-ion accumulators. The design’s focus always lies on the respective process technology.

High Energy Ball Mill Emax The Emax is an entirely new type of ball mill for high energy milling. The unique combination of high friction and impact results in extremely fine particles within the shortest amount of time. The high energy input is a result of an unrivaled speed of 2000 min-1 and the optimized jar design. Thanks to the revolutionary cooling system with water, the high energy input is effectively used for the grinding process without overheating the sample. Due to the special grinding jar geometry, the sample is thoroughly mixed which results in a narrow particle size distribution.

Reagens is a manufacturer of special chemicals for production of PVC and other thermoplastic plastics. In the production location Loxstedt organically based stabilizers are produced among other things. In our everyday life they are hardly perceived, but the special chemicals are essential for the processing of PVC. Only by their use the final products get their required durability. The up to now used cyclone for the dust removal of the production processes could not any longer fulfil the realisation of lower dust emission values presecuted by Reagens. In lieu of the cyclone Infastaub delivered an aspiration filter of the type Infa-Lamellen-Jet. In spite of small floor space a filter surface of 72 m² could be realised because of the optimised filter geometry. The old fan was substituted with an energy-optimised fan type. The requirements for the new filter unit were very special. The paraffin containing dust particles are adhesive, waxy and could clog the pleated

Specifically focused on nutrition and pharmacy Lödige GmbH, in the Benelux represented by Eskens, has invested in a new state of the art testing facility specifically focused on nutrition and pharmacy. Last year Lödige GmbH has celebrated its 75th anniversary last year and to serve their customers even better they chose for this expansion. That Lödige mixers, dryers, reactors and coating machines are popular in the industry is evident from the fact that in 2012 Lödige has achieved its second highest sales volume in 75 years. The new test centre is built in Paderborn (DE), next to the older test centre, and is used specifically for research and experimentation in collaboration with customers in the field of food and pharmacy. The test centre is equipped with the most modern machines for processes like mixing, granulation, drying, coating and reacting. The testing facilities fully meet up to the high standards for the food and pharmaceutical industries in compliance with GMP conditions and the machines can

The next opening follows the last On 21 September 2013, L.B. Bohle celebrated the opening of Plant 3 in Ennigerloh with a big party. The next opening ceremony is already firmly planned for the summer of 2014 – that of the Global Technology Center at its headquarters on Industriestrasse. The construction work for the new development, test and presentation center “is running absolutely according to plan and the building will be completed this December”, Managing Director Lorenz Bohle said. This will be followed by the interior work and fittings. Around €2 million is being invested in the sophisticated Technology Center, a building which is high-tech in terms of architecture, too. Here, L. B. Bohle offers scientists and students from the Universities of Dusseldorf and Graz, as well as the measurement, control and process experts from Siemens a platform to develop complete production lines for processes optimized for wet and dry granulation. The focus will be on permanent and cross-process measuring,

New Venue: Cologne - Germany With the FILTECH Show taking place from 24.-26. February 2015 the City of Cologne in Germany will turn into the top-meeting-place for all those involved with filtration and separation and adjacent sectors. With 350 exhibitors the world’s largest filtration Show will take place for the first time at the new venue KoelnMesse. The FILTECH Congress with more than 200 presentations will offer a representative cross section of current research findings, global developments and new approaches. Special highlights are a plenary and six survey lectures in which internationally renowned experts give a comprehensive overview of state of the art knowledge and techniques concerning important aspects of separation technology. Abstracts can be submitted until July 4, 2014.

Antistatic, microbe-resistant and hardly inflammable. More advantages for users. The multifunction hose from Masterflex already proved itself last year to be a winner for users with its unique combination of antistatic capability and microbe resistance, which had never before been achieved. Thanks to combining these two additional characteristics, extremely important for a spiral hose, the Masterflex range overview was simplified, item availability was upgraded, and choosing the product and placing the order improved. And now Masterflex is going one better. From now on the hose is being enhanced with another, third characteristic which ensures flame resistance in accordance with DIN 4102 B1 – and at no extra cost. Masterflex is the only German manufacturer to offer a hose made of polyester-polyurethane (PU) which combines these three properties. The improved hose range is immediately available under the name Master-PUR Trivolution and in varying degrees of wall thickness. Previously customers had to decide which of the different additional

Goudsmit Magnetics has recently joined the European Hygienic Engineering & Design Group (EHEDG) being the first magnetic supplier. A consortium of equipment manufactures, food industries, research institutes as well as public health authorities. It was founded to promote hygiene during the processing and packaging of food products. The company will introduce a new series of magnetic systems on the market which will fulfill all the EHEDG standards. At the “CFIA” Trade Fair in Rennes (Hal 5 - D28/E31), for example, Goudsmit will introduce a recently developed fast-cleaning clean flow magnet that reaches a magnetic field of 10,700 Gauss on the bars in the product. The magnet system removes iron particles and weak magnetic particles from powdery substances (e.g. milk powder, sugar and flour). With the application of a new generation of Neoflux® magnets, it is also possible to capture weak magnetic particles such as 304 stainless steel. Because the grill of this

-Dense colloidal fluids form denser sediments- One session of this year‘s International Workshop Dispersion Analysis and Materials Testing in Berlin was dedicated to the Young Scientist Award (YSA) 2014. For the first time, LUM GmbH called for prize applications to broaden its support and commitment in promoting young researchers from universities and academic institutions all across the globe for outstanding scientific results in particle characterization and dispersion analysis. „On behalf of all workshop attendees and the entire jury, I would like to thank all applicants.“, Prof. Dr. Lerche, scientific chairman of the conference and president of the jury, sums up. „The best four aspirants were invited to discuss their interesting results with the 80 participants from 24 countries.“ For the contribution Dense colloidal fluids form denser sediments Shir R. Liber from Bar-Ilan University, Israel, was awarded Young Scientist 2014. In the laudation jury president Prof. Dr. Lerche highlighted the extraordinary

Growth continues uninterrupted and the halls of POWTECH 2014 are well booked. More than 700 companies from all over the world present the latest solutions for processing, analysis and handling of powder and bulk solids in the Exhibition Centre Nuremberg from 30 September to 2 October 2014. The official floor plans for POWTECH 2014 provide a comprehensive overview of all exhibitors and the current floor allocation and are available now at: www.powtech.de/floorplan “There is a tremendous interest in POWTECH 2014 and the signs already indicate growth again – a good half-year before the event. Almost 90 per cent of the previous year’s space is booked,” says Willy Viethen, Director Exhibitions responsible for POWTECH at NürnbergMesse. “Companies still wanting to secure a stand space should contact us now.” Exhibitors can not only apply for stand spaces, but also for presentations at the forum, a bustling meeting place in hall 4, where experts provide information

Video monitoring system improves bagging operation and troubleshooting By installing IP cameras in key-areas of the packaging line and providing the operator"s desk with a video screen, you can monitor the key functions of the bagging line without moving position. This is time saving time and increasing the operator"s daily efficiency. In addition, should you require the helping hand of a Concetti hot line engineer, you can allow us to remotely access the video system via a safe connection providing quicker and easier support for troubleshooting. Main benefits of this system - Key points of the machine are under control -More efficient, time saving bagging line operation -Quicker and easier support available for troubleshooting -Technical features and operation of the system

Loading Fly Ashes - Quickly and Precisely! “It"s a bit over - is that OK?” While the butcher of your choice might ask you for a little latitude, this is certainly “not OK” when it comes to loading trucks! Up to the max. payload - quickly and precisely! To lighten after loading is extremely time-consuming and to load less than the allowed amount is inefficient. RWE- Germany"s second largest electricity supplier had to increase the capacity of the fly-ash truck loading station under the silos in their power plant “Gersteinwerk” near Dortmund in Germany. An additional truck loading station with an online mass flow rate measurement was necessary. Facts Product: Coal fly-ash Location: Coal fired power plant, truck loading station, vertical pipeline, free fall, DN200 (~8”), in front of a FLUIDCON conveying system Mass flow rate: Max. 150 t/h Velocity (solid Material): 5-7 m/s (1000-1500 ft/min.) Solution The well-known plant engineering company Claudius

MOLLET devices in action In the foyer of our building – very close (2 km) to the motorway A81 – you can see all devices of MOLLET Füllstandtechnik GmbH in operation. In this impressive exhibition room devices of each series are realistically presented in demonstration silos and bins. The opportunity to visit this interesting in-house exhibition exists every Monday to Friday from 08:00 to 17:00. You will find us at the Industriepark RIO 103 in Osterburken. The new office and production facility offers generous customer areas as well as modern conference and training rooms for an optimal support for our customers. A well equipped experimental and development laboratory has convinced every customer so far. The required customer application is simulated there and the MOLLET-products are tested under realistic conditions. State-of-the-art measuring equipment analysis the performance and the results are verifiably recorded. Methodically perfect and efficient processes as well as ergonomic

SMC, the world’s leading pneumatics provider, has launched a two in one tube that is capable of transferring chemicals effectively, providing customers with a complete solution in terms of durability and design flexibility. The double layered TQ Series has an internal fluoropolymer layer that is highly chemical resistant to a vast range of products and an external abrasion resistant nylon resin, prolonging the tube’s operating life. The internal structure of the tube also has an exceptionally smooth surface finish, effectively washing away fluid residue and reducing the amount of cleaning solvents required, all leading to sustained cost savings. Another design feature of the TQ Series sees both layers being extruded together, removing the need for peeling and offering a quick and easy assembly. The TQ can fit tight narrow spaces and is ideal for applications such as transferring ink to a printer, cleaning solvent to a washing machine and bonding agent or lubricating

LUM awarded Spanish and Israeli partners Best Distributors 2013 The 15th International Sales Meeting took place at the headquarters of LUM GmbH in Berlin-Adlershof in the end of January. LUM is market leader for innovative analytical instruments for particle characterization and for direct and accelerated characterization of emulsions and suspensions. In materials testing of composites and surfaces, LUM customers at the end of the value chain benefit from the Adhesion Analyser LUMiFrac, successfully introduced to the market in 2013. The world-wide success of LUM GmbH is based not at least on the regular technical and intercultural exchange between LUM people and sales partners from around the world. “This year, we would like to thank our Spanish partner Comercial Química Jover, S.L., for successfully selling our instruments of all product lines LUMiSizer, LUMiFuge, LUMiReader and LUMiCheck“, explains Prof. Lerche, Managing Director of LUM GmbH. “Despite the ongoing difficult general conditions in Spain, the very good sales