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VAC-U-MAX, an industrial vacuum expert, teams up with players in a range of industries to battle flammable, explosive, respiratory, ergonomic, and noise dangers, which are not only OSHA-regulated but also more insidious than many companies realize.
US businesses spend an estimated $170 billion a year on costs associated with work injuries and illnesses - expenditures which come straight out of company profits in the form of increased absenteeism, workers' compensation claims, and retraining ...
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Powder Processing Try Us! Kemutec's Technical Center is one of the most comprehensive powder processing test facilities in North Technical America. Fully equipped to demonstrate full-scale production, pilot and lab size equipment, the facility allows for first hand evaluation and recording of trial results. The Testing Facility is equipped to test special Center requirements, including grinding at low and cryogenic temperatures or under inert cryogenic temperatures or under inert atmospheres, ...
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It's no secret that the U.S. lost a significant market share in key industries: wide-bodied aircraft, semi-conductors, automobiles, electronics, and steel. The U.S. manufacturing base has eroded to offshore competitors; we've lost our edge in price, delivery and quality. Our foreign competitors are delivering high quality products with one pass through the factory, while we're consumed in fixing mistakes.
In the meantime, U.S. manufacturing has gone through a lot of pain and expense in its ...
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Global warming, carbon footprint, greenhouse gases; ten years ago, none of us had even heard of these terms, but today, they are on the front page of every newspaper and magazine. Many large corporations have adopted environmental policies which commit them to go beyond applicable legal and regulatory requirements. In many cases, this means implementing best available technologies to reduce environmental impact. So what does this mean for your production process? How can you minimize the ...
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Grace Davison’s history began in 1832 when Irish immigrant
William T. Davison started a company in Baltimore, Md., to process old bones and oyster shells into fertilizer. Today, Grace Davison is
the second largest continually operating chemical company in the US and one of the world’s leading manufacturers of silica-based adsorbents and related products.
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The concept of Lean Manufacturing has been growing in popularity in the manufacturing world for the past several years.
Driven by several factors, including a slowing U.S. economy, rising costs of input materials, an increase in rationalization of production facilities, and the influx of inexpensive products from overseas, manufacturers are embracing the principles of Lean Thinking to solidify their competitiveness and improve market share.
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The Analytical Side to Compliance with Drinking Water Regulations
Two new U.S. Federal regulations went into effect in 2009 that directly impact drinking water utilities that use chemical disinfection. Specifically, the Ground Water Rule (1) and the EPA Method 334.0 (2) are now in place with the purpose of improving the quality of drinking water.
This paper summarizes the key elements of the new regulations and describes how they affect utilities' daily operations, plus it will provide a ...
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Read this whitepaper and learn about how New England Coffee found that low-capacity blenders and high-volume customers don't mix.
New England Coffee, Malden, Mass., has imported and roasted coffee beans since 1916 and currently distributes them throughout New England and elsewhere in the US. The supplier provides wholesale coffees to institutions such as restaurants, hotels, and fast food chains. The supplier roasts 250,000 pounds of coffee beans daily.
In 1988 the coffee supplier began ...
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Valves must be properly selected to operate safely, efficiently, and reliably without excessive maintenance. Further address accuracy, repeatability, and feedback requirements for automated control valves. First select the most cost effective valve type suitable for the given application. Then select the appropriate pressure/temperature rating, compatible materials of construction, pipe end connections, method of operation/actuation and accessories based on the process service conditions, ...
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Get Your Assembly Equipment For Free: How To Propose a Winning Capital
The heat is on!! The direction is set for us in the U.S. Global competition is driving U.S. manufacturing to fiercely compete. Gone are the days when we can sit back and “crank out” thousands or millions of products per month just to make the budget hours. Lead times have shrunk. In most industries today, customers are demanding 1-2 day deliver- ies for standard products, just-in-time replenishment, top quality, and ...
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Driving a turbo-powered sports car is an exciting experience. Step on the gas pedal zero to sixty in a few seconds. Maneuvering through traffic.... downshift, accelerate past others, upshift....gone. Curves coming up?....downshift...corner..... accelerate. You notice the responsiveness of this finely engineered product. You expect this; this precision machine was designed for this, and it is performing to spec. Wouldn't it be great if you could do this with your business? That is...quickly ...
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Recent studies covering plants in the U.S., UK and Germany show that controlling static electricity build-up is the key to preventing combustible cloud explosions.
In the U.S. alone during the period 1980 to 2005 The Chemical Safety Board reported 281 explosions caused by ignitable combustible dust atmospheres. They resulted in 199 fatalities and 718 injuries (1). Similar data was compiled in the UK, where the Health and Safety Executive reported 303 explosions over a nine year period. And ...
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Choosing the right pleated cartridge filter can im- prove your cartridge collector’s dust capture effi- ciency, help it operate more reliably, and reduce its energy and maintenance requirements. To help you make an informed choice, this article discusses some recent advances in pleated cartridge filter technology.
A cartridge collector is the most popular dust collector for bulk solids handling operations today. This high-efficiency unit is more compact than a baghouse collector and operates ...
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Many of today’s large urban water treatment plants rely upon sophisticated chlorination processes in order to provide clean, sanitary water to millions of consumers in the US and around the globe. The efficiency and cost-effective operation of chlorination processes in water treatment facilities can be significantly improved with the installation of flow meters that accurately measure the flow of chlorine gas in the treatment process.
Turning raw water obtained from various ground or surface ...
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Estimates on counterfeit trade exceed two hundred billion dollars (US). And inspections across the world cost billions, yet only a very few shipments are actually inspected. This issue has particularly impacted the vital Life Sciences Supply Chain. This article discusses some solutions that are at hand to reduce illicit trade and ensure a safe and secure supply of pharmaceuticals.
The past decade has seen an increase in the level of global trade, and along with it, the unintended consequences ...
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The company also supplies clients worldwide with instant coffee, traditional ground and roasted coffee, as well as coffee in bulk. Brands include Presto, Musun, and Café Toro. Café Soluble also processes private-label instant cof- fee for supermarkets in the UK and else- where, and it makes instant cereal drinks under the Presto brand. The company employs 400 people and has annual revenue of about US$34 million.
Café Soluble built its reputation for quality by blending, roasting, and ...
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New plant incorporates tried-and- true feeders
When upgrading to a new plant, a plastics compounder chooses scale-based loss-in- weight feeders like those that have contributed to the company's top-quality products for more than 20 years.
W e manufacture highly engineered resins — the more sophisticated the application, the better,” says Craig Lucas, ex- ecutive vice president of B&M Plastics Inc., Evansville, Ind. “And for us to keep turning out top-quality engineered resins, we need to have ...
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Open ditch irrigation replaced by closed piped system with precise flow control
Gerald W. Knudsen, PE General Manager, AgriTech Consulting 303-697-2123 knudsen@wispertel.net
As we progress into the 21st century, water promises to be one of our most precious resources. Wise management and proper conservation of this re- source will become increasingly important, and inno- vative methods will have to be employed to save water.
Automation coupled with intelligent design has greatly increased ...
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An unforgiving economic climate has left many organizations struggling to sustain (or restore) profitability. Many of them reacted to the downturn by restructuring, trimming back R&D and marketing, and laying off employees. All of these moves leave a company in a vulnerable position when the market rebounds, which it inevitably will.
Meanwhile, huge potential savings are sitting, untapped, right in the company's data center.
Data center energy costs as a percent of total revenue are at an ...
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Understanding Surfactants and New Methods of Dispersing
Chemists and process engineers far and wide find that their job is commonly a never- ending rush to what could be made better. Ideas on how to control processing costs or improve product quality come by through careful research, sudden creativity or sometimes, as the humble will admit, sheer luck. But implementing any solution ultimately requires multiple tools and approaches.
The key phrase is continuing progress and us in the mixing ...
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Top 5 Questions To Ask When Considering A Cyclone Dust Collector
Designing a dust collection system can be quite a daunting task. With so many collector options and so many application variables to consider, it is difficult to know where to begin. Cyclones are one of the oldest and still most reliable methods of dust collection available. ...
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Weight-Loss Feeders Enhance Uniformity, Eliminate Rework
Automatically Adjust Feed Rates Based On Bulk Density
Algood Foods, Louisville, KY, manufactures peanut butter on a contract basis for supermarkets throughout the U.S. The company also supplies other manufacturers with peanut butter for further processing into cookies and confections.
One of the most crucial operations of the peanut butter making process is the mixing of peanuts with the proper amounts of salt, sugar, and stabilizer. ...
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Dissolution testing is used in solid dosage form manufacturing to determine the rate of dissolution of the active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) into solvents that simulate the digestive tract fluids. There are several dissolution testing apparatuses described in the US Pharmacopeia. The general design has six to nine temperature-controlled 900mL vessels that contain the buffered solvent and a stirring device. A Tablet is dropped in at the time zero and the concentration of the API in the ...
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The world’s largest retailer, Walmart, has really brought the issue of life- cycle analysis and supply-chain emissions tracking to the forefront. With much fanfare, Walmart announced during mid-July 2009 that it would be developing a “Sustainability Index” which would in no small way require its suppliers, all 100,000 of them, to measure sustainability as part of the overall supply chain.
Lifecycle analysis (LCA), or lifecycle assessment, tells us about the envi- ronmental impacts of a ...
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Most makers of feeders for weighing and batching applications use proprietary con- trollers. That's a problem, accord- ing to Domenic Melfi, systems engineer and part owner of Melfi Te c hnologies. “For five years I worked for a feeder manufacturer as a system's engineer and my biggest challenge was integrating different proprietary controllers into our customers' factories. I learned that our customers not only wanted integrated systems, but they wanted reliability. Proprietary controllers are ...
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EasiHeat Packages ‘Green’ Pharmaceutical Plant’s Hot Water Production
Spirax Sarco, Inc. often receives credit for upgrading virtually all aspects of a facility’s operation— energy and water consumption, return on investment, reduced footprint, uptime, maintenance costs, controlled heating output and emissions reduction— without tradeoffs. A Mid-Atlantic pharmaceutical manufacturing company recently found this out, thanks to the aid of a Spirax
Sarco customer solutions team. The ...
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Environmentally Friendly Cogeneration Plant Saves Time and Money with Oil Skimmer
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Performance Track Program is a prestigious program that recog- nizes the accomplishments of manufacturing facilities that lead the way for improving their facilities’ environ- mental performance (i.e. reduce air emissions and consumption of water).
Brooklyn Navy Yard Cogeneration Partners L.P. is an elite member of this program. They have been recog- nized for their ...
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The concept of Lean Manufacturing has been growing in popularity in the manufacturing world for the past several years. Driven by several factors including a slowing U.S. economy, rising costs of input materials, an increase in rationalization of production facilities, and the influx of inexpensive products from overseas, manufacturers are embracing the premise of Lean Thinking to ensure their own survival.
Liquid Processors have been especially susceptible to these external forces. Rising ...
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The facts are indisputable. US Baby Boomers “officially” start retiring in 2008. The Census Bureau indicates that's about 76 million people born between 1946 and 1964 that are eligible to retire over the next 10 years, creating the largest exodus out of the workforce by a single generation. This represents a level of brain power loss seldom seen in history. Many companies are already frantically figuring out the impact on them and how to deal with the loss of institutional knowledge that comes ...
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Two GARDNER Mixers and a KEK Centrifugal Sifter supplied to Quest International's Bromborough Port, Wirral site, by Kemutec, are giving sterling performances 12 months on. Quest, an ICI Group company, is one of Europe's leading suppliers of food flavourings. They have won contracts from some of the biggest and best names in the business through the excellence of their products, the reliability of their service and their fastidious attention to hygiene. The Bromborough Port site employs around ...
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Industrial Vacuum Cleaners Workhorse Behind Good Housekeeping Practices Implementing a proactive approach to preventing secondary dust explosions
Under intense scrutiny since the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board's (CSB), released its 2006 Combustible Dust Hazard Study, OSHA is taking action to amend is General Industry Housekeeping provision, 1910.22. The amendment to the housekeeping requirements comes as a result of employers' misinterpretation of housekeeping standards ...
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Chemists and process engineers far and wide find that their job is commonly a never- ending rush to what could be made better. Ideas on how to control processing costs or improve product quality come by through careful research, sudden creativity or sometimes, as the humble will admit, sheer luck. But implementing any solution ultimately requires multiple tools and approaches.
The key phrase is continuing progress and us in the mixing business aim to contribute to the evolution of processing ...
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For the last few years, the IT services industry evolved towards the establishment of services models based on delivery advantages derived from labor cost arbitrage in certain geographic locations. This concept was introduced by Indian providers during the Y2K rush and rapidly became the prevailing trend in the new millennium.
In the last few years, a number of “closer to home” models were introduced projecting nearshore providers from Latin America to become challengers in the IT services ...
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The Importance of Variable Area Flow Meters
For industries that rely heavily on the monitoring of liquids and gasses, variable area flow meters are an essential tool. These tools play a critical role in maintaining the safety of day-to-day operations, and above all else, the safety of employees.
Kytola Instruments, an engineering solutions company based in Montreal, Canada, and Alpharetta Georgia in the US, manufactures the best ISO and CRN approved HYPERLINK "http://www.kytola.ca" variable ...
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Defining a Truly Paperless Metrology Environment
A Prime Technologies, Inc. Guidance Document February 2006
Prepared by: Frank Gellner Rev 1, Date: 15 Feb 2006
Prime Technologies, Inc ProCalV5 Page 1 of 11 GUIDE-2006-0206-TPM.1 Rev 1
Defining a Truly Paperless Metrology Environment 15 Feb 2006
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Proven Paperless Performance With ProCalV5
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Imagine it’s a hot, humid day and the temperature is rising. The local electric company is reaching it maximum generating capacity, so it sends a signal to your home automation system to reduce the electrical consumption in your house. Your home automation system responds by raising the set point of your thermostat and only energizing the water heater when absolutely necessary. For your ability to shed some load, you get a discount on your energy bill. Welcome to the “Smart Grid”.
It is ...
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Developing World Class Enterprise Agility: How to Manage Radical Transformation
Most of the strength of the U.S. economy has been built on capital, technology, natural resources, and information, while markets were relatively captive. It's no longer this way. Foreign competition has challenging companies more so than ever before. New ways to compete are being be devised. In response to competitive pressures, many companies are working on improvements with process, quality, automation, and ...
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Over the years U.S. manufacturing companies lost substantial market share in many industries. Stiff foreign and domestic competition drove executives to seek solutions. MRP had its heyday, then JIT, CIM, TQM, and time-based competition. Quick-fix solu-tions failed, as well as downsizing and decentralization. By now we understand what led to this bind --years of haphazard growth and piece-meal problem solving.
We placed plants and equipment wherever space could be found. We sourced overseas in ...
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Oil Skimmers Solutions Guide: Oil Services Industry Gulf Coast Company Finds a Simple, Inexpensive Way to Meet Discharge Rules
Retif Oil & Fuel Inc. is one of the top petroleum specialty products distributors in the nation, offering customers a full range of services from commercial and retail deliveries to on- and off-site refueling services. The company has served the greater New Orleans area through three facilities since 1965 and has a commitment to serve an expanded market throughout the ...
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Blenders, feeders double output, labor efficiency
Three-year payback with improved quality and housekeeping
Buddy's Plant Plus Corp. sought to optimize its production of water-soluble fertilizer and to reduce labor costs at its Ballinger, TX, plant. Loss-in-weight feeders and enclosed continuous blenders increased production from 62 tpd (tons per day) to 140 tpd. Labor requirements were reduced from 10 people in a 10-hr day to four people in an 8-hr day.
Buddy's produces a variety of ...
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Pressure Sensor Fundamentals Associated with Hydraulic Systems June 2009
Hydraulic systems use incompressible liquids with low activation pressure to control high pressure actions. From the brakes that stop our automobiles, to fork lifts that move and stack heavy boxes in warehouses, to the bulldozer moving dirt for the new highway, hydraulic applications are all around us. When the warehouse operator pulls the lift lever, he activates a hydraulic pump that delivers fluid under pressure to a ...
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The outstanding attributes of diamond are now available for enhancing mechanical seals. UNCD® Faces are made with a patented form of diamond that is so smooth that the faces can be run directly against conventional seal face materials such as blister resistant carbons and silicon carbides. Unlike other commercial diamond seal faces, UNCD does not require the added cost of having both faces coated with diamond. Besides excellent wear resistance and outstanding low friction, UNCD is known for its ...
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The topic of combustible dust hazards in bulk solids processing plants has never been more — pardon the expression — explosive. In February this year, a dust cloud explosion triggered a fatal blast and fire in the Imperial Sugar Company's Wentworth, Georgia, plant, generating a storm of media attention, public outcry, and governmental scrutiny. The blast, while more severe than most, was reportedly not a freak incident but the latest in a 25-year string of similar incidents at manufacturing ...
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Volumetric and loss-in-weight feeders accurately feed a custom compounder's ingredients to its extrusion lines.
O 'Neil Color & Compounding Corp., a subsidiary of Primex Plastics Corp., produces custom colorant and additive master batches and thermoplastic compounds for customers that make injection- molded, blow-molded, extruded, and other finished plastic products.In1992, the company purchased a compound- ing plant in Jasper, Tenn., that had several existing extrusion lines for making ...
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Volumetric and loss-in-weight feeders accurately feed a custom compounder's ingredients to its extrusion lines.
O 'Neil Color & Compounding Corp., a subsidiary of Primex Plastics Corp., produces custom colorant and additive master batches and thermoplastic compounds for customers that make injection- molded, blow-molded, extruded, and other finished plastic products.In1992, the company purchased a compounding plant in Jasper, Tenn., that had several existing extrusion lines for making ...
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Filterability Studies and Vmax Determination Real-Time Data Collection of 15 Filtration Parameters and Graphs Serial or Parallel Filter Trains with 3 Pressure Sensor Hook-ups Increased DEF Filter Utilization up to 35% Safe, Walk-away System Operation Compatible with All Manufacturers' Filters!
Patented technology* includes on-board software and hardware system that automates, optimizes and documents Dead-End Filtration. Introducing the FilterTec™ Lab Dead End Filtration System, the ...
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Most Senior Management recognizes that moving your organization toward World Class stature requires adopting Total Organization Quality (TOQ). Organization wide Quality Improvement is critical to any successful business and inherent in all World Class companies. Two of the most vital benefits include elimination of internal waste (cost) and improving customer satisfaction by meeting expectations (real and perceived). In the search for business improvement some executives “champion” the concept ...
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How Food Producers can Reduce Costs and Increase Efficiency in their Wastewater Treatment System
A white paper for the packaged-food industry.
Foremost in many companies’ capital-investment strategies these days is achieving fast return on investment (ROI). This especially is true in packaged foods, an industry adjusting to higher commodity prices and increased price sensitivity. At the same time, consumers are pressuring packaged-foods manufacturers to make their processes more ...
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The technology world around us is changing rapidly. Keeping up has become tougher for managers and supervisors. Today’s economy has focused limited information technology resources on immediate results, not research or long term strategy. In this envi- ronment, an understanding of how to apply new technology for up- and-coming management is very worthwhile. This document pro- vides high level definitions, opportunity identification, and future potentials for: Service Oriented Architecture ...
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Solving waste oil management and removal problems in power generating plants
If your plant is like most, it is doing a good job of preventing oily water waste and waste oils from escaping into the environment. But at what cost? As labor resources dwindle, operating and maintaining drainage systems, oil separators, and sometimes inadequate oil removal equipment is expensive. Paying higher than needed costs for waste oil disposal, filtration and water treatment due to these limitations is ...
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Since most industrial processes don't take place in a beaker, we must always consider the real- world behavior of high-shear batch mixers in large vessels. Thinking on a molecular level, we ask, “How many times does each particle or droplet pass through the high shear zone?” Backing up to see the process from a wider perspective, we ask, “How consistent are my results? How uniform is the distribution of particle or droplet sizes in my batch?” In many applications these are critical questions ...
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Advanced Industrial Vacuum Cleaning Systems Integrated into Production and Processing Systems Are Paying Dividends by Increasing Productivity, Improving Safety and Protecting Worker Health
Today's industrial vacuum cleaning systems – capable of picking up material as heavy as bowling balls or as fine as mist - are now far more sophisti- cated than their brethren, the common shop vacuum. These powerful and sophisticated vacuum cleaning systems, often custom designed for specific applica- tions ...
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So we are not stuck in a cloud … By Claudio Muruzábal, Neoris CEO The business community and, above all, IT experts are astounded by the concept of “cloud computing”. The promise of almost unlimited IT resources available to the user when and where required, and all at very accessible prices, have made many, even the most skeptical and conservative in the industry, think. How wonderful it would be to totally dispense with the need to operate computer centers and decide which software packages ...
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International Journal for the Oilseeds Processing Industry
Hurricane Ivan Takes Toll on Southern U.S. Crops
Oil Mill Gazetteer • Volume 110, September 2004
A soybean oil extraction plant in Alabama reports a Several years ago, the plant’s maintenance superin- marked reduction in hexane loss after replacing the tendent decided to try an alternative solution to seal packing glands on its extractor, feeder, and discharge the extractor shaft with custom shaft seals. He had seen screw shafts with ...
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Whether we agree with the science of Global Climate Change or not, the issues surrounding it and the role of the corporation deserves your attention. Now!
If for no other reason, Climate Change will have serious implications on how we business is conducted, and should be managed like any other strategic asset or liability on the corporation's balance sheet.
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Enterprise carbon accounting (ECA) is an essential requirement for companies and will likely become necessary due to government legislation. No longer is it permissible for a company to look within its borders, but it must look at its overall environmental responsibilities and accurately gauge and measure carbon production and emission caused by its very existence. Financial data must be directly linked through lifecycle assessments enabling action to be taken to help reduce greenhouse gas ...
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Reach qualified and informed buyers who are making decisions today.
Processing ‘s new Online Buyers Directory lets you put all your data sheets, advertising message and key links to your website in a single page. Our e-newsletters and SEO functionality will drive traffic to this website and help your products get noticed around the world. This site will not only generate traffic to your website, but generate quality leads for your sales force.
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To solve supply-chain and product-quality problems, Adagio Teas purchased a batch mixer and brings production in-house.
"Plain black or green tea is like plain coffee or espresso,” says Michael Cramer, chief operations officer at Adagio Teas. “If all you sell is plain coffee or espresso, you probably won’t sell a lot. But when you add milk or chocolate or other flavors and ingredients, your sales will really take off. It’s the same thing with tea.”
In the past, the company imported ...
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Metal Coating Technologies Provide Critical Edge For Dry Bulk Solids Handling Leader
Over the past forty years, Acrison has established itself as an industry leading authority in dry bulk solids handling, specifically the precision metering of dry solid ingredients by volume or weight and the closely related proportioning, blending, storage and hoppering of these materials. Acrison's expertise is well known throughout the Processing Industries. In fact it is rumored that whenever a dry solids ...
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By updating feeders, a custom processor improves its jet-milling production.
On a processing line dedicated to a single material, a feeder's cleanout features may not be of concern. But when a custom processor needed to run many different materials, a feeder that could quickly and completely empty its contents was essential.
Located in Moorestown, N.J., Jet Pulverizer first began manufacturing milling equipment in 1946. The small, family- owned business expanded to include custom milling in ...
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Vacuum Conveying System Integral To 2000% Growth Strategy of Food Additives Supplier Automated material handling, including vacuum conveyor system, is the key to Piasa reaching twenty-fold growth, equaling the production capacity of all major competitors combined.
When you consider that Piasa uses over a thousand different ingredients to produce food additives such as spices, seasonings and flavors – many of which are custom recipes – the importance of dramatically improving production becomes ...
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Organizations across the United Kingdom continue to prepare for their participation in the CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme, formerly known as the Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC). The legislation is due to be passed into law by early 2010 and will make the UK government the first to instigate a scheme of this nature to address the growing problem of carbon emissions and adverse climate change.
The CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme is not to be taken lightly and be seen as just another government ...
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While the Executive Order 13514 establishes deadlines for each agency to report back to the executive, it does not establish firm guidelines for carbon emission reductions. Each agency must compose its own estimates based on anticipated achievement and an overall assessment will then be collated by the Council chairman before being returned to President Obama.
Due to the complexity associated with the introduction of a sustainability platform and the need for analysis through a complicated ...
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The need for process level indication has existed at least since early Egyptian days when the level of the Nile was monitored to help determine the best time for planting season. Refer to the Back to the Basics video produced by CONTROL magazine featuring our good friend and editor Walt Boyes. For thousands of years man has needed to know about the level of liquids, slurry as well as powder and bulk solids.
As the twentieth century advanced, and level measurement and monitoring instruments ...
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Feeding solution drives production for automotive parts manufacturer
For automotive parts manufacturer Wescast Industries, manufacturing a consistently produced casting is critical to the quality of their exhaust manifolds. Located in Ontario, Wescast designs, casts, machines, and assembles, high-quality engineered iron products for automotive original equipment manufacturers and Tier 1 customers for the car and light truck markets in North ...
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Jackdaw Polymers choose the GP403-101 for new Technical Centre.
Jackdaw Polymers, leading supplier of nylon-based compounds to the technical moulding industry, has installed 3 Acrison feeders in its prestigious new pilot plant facility.
The pilot plant will handle a huge range of development projects, giving the company the ability to run customer samples on a system that replicates the production environment.
The Acrison equipment consists of a main polymer feeder (GP 403-101), and two ...
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Loss-In-Weight Feeders Meter Solids At A Custom Detergent Processing Plant
When Korex decided to replace its dusty, unreliable weighbelt feeders, loss-in-weight feeders eventually solved the processor's problems.
Korex, Wixom, Mich., custom blends and packages powdered automatic dish-washing and laundry detergents for the detergent industry and for supermarket chains. To produce detergent, Korex uses weigh feeders that continuously meter the detergent ingredients at rates varying by as much ...
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Implications of the Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) are far-reaching and will apply both within the public and private sectors across the United Kingdom. About 20,000 organisations will likely be affected, based on how much electricity they consumed in the baseline year of 2008. The scheme has a number of detailed reporting and compliance requirements, as well as potential financial and reputation impacts based on performance in the scheme’s published league table.
The UK government has ...
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This white paper offers an explanation of the challenges and opportuni- ties inherent to the Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) legislation. First, we will explain the CRC carbon reporting regulation in some depth. Second, we will then communicate this information in the context of a hypothetical company ABC plc.
As will be seen from the scenarios presented, organisations must keep accurate records, be proactive in compliance mitigation, and set definitive timelines for initiatives to address ...
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As world leaders gather in Copenhagen to debate a successor to the landmark Kyoto Protocol, it is no overstatement to say that all eyes will be on the United States. Executive 0rder 13514 is President Obama’s most significant call to environmental action. The order request plans and accurate tracking of each agency’s greenhouse gases. The process of making sustainability actionable begins with radical levels of detail across agencies and a level of collaboration not yet experienced by large ...
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Continentals “Free-Fall Processing®” method of applying liquids to solids allows for uniform distribution of liquid additives as the surface area is exposed in Free-Fall. The relationship of the droplet size to the particle size is critical to create the desired finished product; whether it is De-dusting Carbon Black, Impregnating Agricultural Chemicals, or Encapsulating Enriched Rice.
Although each of these processes involves a liquid being sprayed onto a dry powder or granular, that is ...
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Traditional methods of doing business are changing as a consequence of a much keener analysis of asset optimization, performance characteristics, customer service, financial constraints and environmental is- sues. Multiple forces are at work, that are likely to change the business landscape, forces that threaten the very existence of the company should it not be willing to recognize and to change with the times.
“Business as usual” will simply not work and as we enter the new decade every ...
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Perforce SCM is a dedicated Software Change and Configuration Management (SCCM) tool. Its key attributes are speed of operation, high scalability, connectivity via TCP/IP, and small footprint. The Perforce system is architected to minimise network traffic and yet has the power to manage the most complex development efforts, spanning multiple projects, versions, and releases, with multiple source build requirements. To achieve this performance, Perforce's TCP/IP-based streaming message protocol ...
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There is no emergency—loss-in-weight feeders save fire-resistive materials manufacturer
A manufacturer of spray applied fire-resistive materials upgrades from volumetric to loss-in-weight feeders for improved process and quality control.
Isolatek International, headquartered in Stanhope, N.J., has more than 40 years of experience manufacturing dry and wet spray-applied fire-resistive materials. Used as a fire barrier, these materials are sprayed onto steel beams, columns, joists, and roof and ...
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Acrison Models 105 and Loss-In-Weight Feeders increase accuracy at Flour Mill.
Acrison International have recently commissioned two loss in weight feeders and two volumetric feeders on the self raising flour line at millers, W Nelstrop & Company Ltd.
The remotely controlled new feeders, part of an ongoing investment programme, have increased the efficiency of the self-raising flour line and improved the control of the recipe. They have also reduced manpower costs and made part of the existing ...
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Chemical Industry Plant Has Cleaner Discharge and Resells Oil
Problem: A polyvinyl chloride resins plant discharges oil into its wastewater. The oil, which is used in the polymerization process, frequently exceeds state limits in the wastewater, which could mean a $53,000-per-day fine. To avoid this, the plant has been metering its discharge from a sump into the public water system in smaller amounts — a costly and inefficient answer. Additionally, the company wants to resell the separated ...
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SAP White Paper Environment, Health, and Safety
CLIMATE CHANGE: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR BUSINESS PREPARING YOUR COMPANY FOR UPCOMING ENERGY POLICIES
4 Executive Summary 5 Introduction 6 Background on Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions 8 Climate Policies in the European Union 9 Climate Policies in the United States 10 Climate Policies in Other Countries 11 Challenges and Opportunities for Business 13 Summary and Conclusions
About the Authors Christopher L. Weber Department of Civil and ...
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Reusable Containers Industry (55 gallon Drums) Oil Skimmers, Inc resolve waste oil problems
Companies that provide reusable containers for shipping of materials and finished goods use a combination of processes to clean and restore the containers between uses.This makes for a wastewater stream full of many types of oils from both the residual contents of the containers and the restoring processes themselves. Of course, these oils must be removed from the water before it can be reused or ...
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Food Processing Industry Oil Skimmers, Inc Units Recover $6,000 of Waste Oil a Year
Oil Skimmers, Inc., units continuously draw the oil- covered tubing up and out of the water, through the scrapers mechanism, and return the clean tubing to the water surface to gather more oil. The collected oils travel down a boom into an underground tank. Two Model 6V Brill™ floating collector tube skimming units are recovering $6000 worth of waste oil/yr. (144,000 lb.) that previously had been discharged ...
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PPS Air Classifier Mill For All The Right Reasons
Experiencing a spike in demand and recognizing the high value for powder paints in smaller capacities, a leading manufacturer in the Powder Paint and coatings industry approached Kemutec, with the desire to outfit a new small batch production system.
Following the manufacturers specified criteria, Kemutec proposed to supply an integral compact designed PPS 1CMT Air Classifier Mill to fit within the specified footprint and meet throughput ...
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A software solution growing number of 21- to 35-year-olds are migrating away from beer towards the more sophisticated — million new consumers and profitable — terrain of wine. More wine enthusiasts, plus a consumer shift to value brands, is placing added pressure on wine & spirits companies. Despite the changing business climate, many are thriving.
Best-in-class companies are ready to capture their share of the estimated 239 million cases of wine sold this year. And best practice tools, ...
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Champion Technologies Streamlining environment, Health, and Safety Compliance
SAP® Solutions and Services the incident and accident management functionality of the Sap® environment, Health, and Safety management application
Champion technologies inc., a specialty chemical company, offers environmentally sound solutions for oil and gas production facilities. to enhance corporate sustainability, the company deployed the incident and accident management functionality of the Sap® environment, ...
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Comparing Coconut Shell-Based and Coal-Based Activated Carbons
Why are coconut shells used to produce activated carbon? Due to their high carbon content and hardness, coconut shells are an excellent raw material source to produce activated carbon. Activated carbons that are produced using coconut shells as the raw material are often sourced in geographic regions where coconuts are harvested, including India, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, and the Philippines.
How is coconut shell-based activated carbon ...
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Many of today's products contain or are in the form of emulsions. It is but natural that, as a mixing company, we devote a special report on preparing stable, high-quality emulsions.
An emulsion, made up of an aqueous and an oil phase, is a common type of delivery system used for personal care products, enabling a wide variety of ingredients to be quickly and conveniently put on hair and skin. In the pharmaceutical industry, they are used to make medicines more palatable, to control dosage ...
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