Euro Industry News
Week of 15 December 2008
- Versatile sifting, screening and milling package for GSK Cork
- Screen noise reduction with Quiet Clean
- EVOH gives plastic IBCs a competitive edge over steel versions
- Intelligent sensor management
- Particle size analysis vital in production of mortars and refractories
Week of 8 December 2008
- Flexibility a key feature of new rotary cement packer
- Zinc powders dosed with extreme accuracy into mixers
- Reducing pneumatic conveying energy consumption by up to 70%
- Ultrasonic transducer can measure liquid level in a corrosive environment
- Test centre for heat exchange enlarged
- Air-operated pinch valves
- Heaters keep IBC and tanker contents at optimum temperature
- Fully digital ultrasonic system provides enhanced screening performance
- Automatic bagging and palletising of food ingredients
- Major technological advance in multiwall paper sack production
Week of 1 December 2008
- Maintenance video for magnetic vibrating heads
- NIR online gauge for moisture measurement
- Fritsch awarded AEO-F certification
- Rupture disc installation tool wins ATEX approval
- Main motors in modular design
Week of 24 November 2008
- PIAB appoints new CEO
- Ultra-hygienic bulk bag discharger
- Active carbon cooled from 850degC to 60 degC without oxygen
- Robson screw conveyors relocated at British Sugar
- Dutch seed producer chooses Spanish bagging technology
Week of 17 November 2008
- Siemens gets antitrust go-ahead to acquire innotec
- Conveying Belgian bagged sugar
- Fully automatic filling of four-loop FIBCs
- Further expansion at Fritsch
- Bulk bag fillers help recycle 36,000t of sulphur
- Multi-heads volumetric feeder
Week of 10 November 2008
- 75th birthday for GEA Niro
- High-accuracy micro feeders
- Magnesium oxide cooled in Saudi Arabia
- Cone grinding mill for microbiological products
- Irmaco's new fire/explosion protection website
Week of 3 November 2008
- Ebbecke expands contract powder processing capabilities
- Ajax screw conveyors for Portuguese PTA project
- Payper targets Poland
- Cadbury rescued by modified slide gate valve
- Contamination-free docking with integrated scale disconnection
Week of 27 October 2008
- New generation of Roto-Packer unveiled at Haver Technology Days
- After sales service fit for 21st Century
- Filtering air streams caused by metering feeder refills
- Sugar refinery poses vibratory conveyor challenge
- Operator control and monitoring of simple applications
Week of 20 October 2008
- Heat exchanger cools starch powder at 8t/hr
- Operator interface controls up to 16 feeders in one process line
- Homogenizing for liquids and pastes
- Automated particle characterisation with FPM capability
- New generation of rotary blowers
Week of 13 October 2008
- Precision metering with no mechanical parts contacting the product flow
- New Haver & Boecker innovation supremo
- Enhanced micro-feeder
- Further expansion for contract processing specialist
- Silo storage of wheat gluten
- Contamination-free batch preparation
- Versatile lime feeder for water treatment
Week of 6 October 2008
- Domestic waste rendered metal free
- Spanish FSS system capable of 2000 bags/h
- Vacuum processing of emulsions
- Ensuring products flow from stainless steel hoppers
- New software simplifies hopper design
Week of 29 September 2008
- Avery Weigh-Tronix now US-owned
- Fast and high-accuracy bagging scale
- Contained drying of highly potent products
- New MD at Beumer France
- Precision in-motion weighing of rail tankcars
- Schütz officially opens Moerdijk plant
Week of 22 September 2008
- De-dusting resins at point of silo discharge
- Pump capable of accurate slurry metering
- Haver & Boecker wins North America control cabinet accreditation
- Powder packed directly from IBCs
- Optimised balancing of tumbler screeners
- Two-stage removal of metal contaminants from foodstuffs
- Schenck acquires Screenex from Locker Group
- Versatile lab-size mill
Week of 15 September 2008
- Coperion Group to settle for single name
- Optimised fine screening with ultrasonic/air cleaning
- Sweco promotes roller mill following Ecutec acquisition
- Easily applied wear-resistant compound
- New generation of silo venting filters
- Siemens names new head of motion control systems
Week of 8 September 2008
- German dust control companies to merge
- Redefining the rheometer
- Jöst wins biggest ever order
- JetSolutions buys Anag
- Humber acquired by Storsack
Week of 1 September 2008
- Plenty of cement business for Aumund
- Premier Pneumatics technology now available in Europe
- Heat exchanger can be connected into pneumatic conveying systems
- Monitoring performance of vibrating machines
- Samson feeders in demand at cement plants
Week of 25 August 2008
- Siemens acquires innotec
- Optical sorting of rock salt for quality and quantity
- Rhewum screens for world's largest phosphate fertiliser production plant
- New MD at Kemutec
- Ellerwerk becomes part of Heinkel
- Self-cleaning rotary drum screen
- New generation of electro-mechanical level measurement systems
Week of 18 August 2008
- Eirich acquires Spanish competitor Molaris
- Continuous particle size analysis of marble powders
- Further expansion at UWT
- Chemical dosing test rigs for industrial waste
- Allgaier splits into three independent companies
- Filler accommodates bulk bags and drums
Week of 11 August 2008
- Ceramic-coated pipe bends
- Novel end of line mixing concept
- Contact-less arch breaking in hoppers
- Biomass handling installation at Ferrybridge
- Enhanced features for laboratory process control system
Week of 4 August 2008
- Food design factory opened by Dinnissen
- Quarter century of laser technology
- Vibratory floor gains ground for dry bulk reclaim
- 80 bucket elevators at single site
- Eriez teams up with Toratec
- Granulation rather than pelletizing of combustion dusts
Week of 28 July 2008
- Möllers introduces palletiser advances
- Successful handling of aluminium trihydrate
- Mixers: modification cheaper than replacement
- High-performance screen classifying cutter
- Simplified and upgraded bag closing machine
Week of 21 July 2008
Week of 14 July 2008
- All change at Eriez Magnetics
- Vacuum conveyors retain coffee quality
- Gravity diverter designed to be dust-tight and wear-free
- Rotary blower is compact and quiet
- Cost advantage of new GRP acoustic cleaners
- Russell Finex invests in retaining customer loyalty
Week of 7 July 2008
- PPG honours Sartorius
- Malvern strengthens pharmaceutical team
- Reliable connection of corrugated spiral hose
- Strain gauge sensors converted to digital
- More efficient packaging of fertilizer materials
Week of 30 June 2008
- Feeding/blending of plastics with integrated conveying
- Bag gripper ensures neat, interlocking, pallet stacks
- Enhanced load cell versatility
- Laser diffraction technology assists ceramics producer
- Vibratory switches for liquid media
Week of 23 June 2008
- Particle characterisation of abrasives
- New load cell for truck scales
- Floating cement silo upgraded
- High-efficiency gearboxes in lightweight aluminium housings
- Flexibility and accuracy of dosing
Week of 16 June 2008
- Belgium silo manufacturer targets British Isles
- Food-grade bulk bag discharger
- Complete level monitoring service
- Mobile scales available in UK
- Systems approach to wear protection
Week of 9 June 2008
- High-value tea graded and classified
- New generation of screw compressors
- Service packages for level measurement
- Screw feeders facilitate ash removal
- Laser particle sizer wins major award
Week of 2 June 2008
- Haver & Boecker sets up UAE subsidiary
- Combined vortex flowmeter for fluids
- Poittemill benefits from Ceric liaison
- Probat celebrates 140th Anniversary
- Tixotherm technology available on test
- Aerzen expands blower production
Week of 26 May 2008
- Bucket elevator monitor
- Arodo stays independent
- Easy-clean bucket elevator has CIP facility
- Heat exchanger in fertiliser application
- Improved agglomeration process available for testing
Week of 19 May 2008
- Automatic lubrication of bucket elevator chains
- High-performance net bagging weigher
- Particle size analyzer helps select the right mixer
- Metal detectors protect against dust explosion in fine impact mills
- Multi-purpose granulator/agglomerator for 0.5-10kg batches
- High capacity pendulum bucket elevators
- Mozyr oil refinery: Hapman/Braby clarification
Week of 12 May 2008
- Dewatering/drying from vibratory screener
- Magnetic, food-grade, polypropylene elevator buckets
- Enhanced net weighing in bagging applications
- High-containment bulk bag discharge
- New MD at Wrights Dowson
- Octabin can be stored outdoors
- Packaging at up to 2000 bags per hour
- Scale combines dynamic weighing with metal detection
Week of 5 May 2008
- New design of tube diverter
- Launch of novel dense phase conveying system
- Air jet sieve offers 10-times faster screen analysis
- New MD at Stock Redler
- Batching and recipe management in a single device
- Kalenborn thinks global
- Traceable accuracy for feed recipes
- Structure-flex appoints general manager
- Quality control by high-resolution scanner
- Bag packaging and palletising adopts RFID
Week of 28 April 2008
- SWR monitoring comes to the British Isles
- Third generation gravity dosing unit
- Demountable plastic IBC
- Computing optimum packing pattern for bag palletiser
- High containment of pharmaceutical ingredients and processes
- FFS packaging in excess of 2200 bags per hour
- Overfill protection prevents Bostik coming unstuck
- Spiral wrapping on five sides with one reel
- Continuous moisture analysis
- Exxon Mobil, Singapore, orders 10 packaging lines
Week of 21 April 2008
- Accurate sampling of de-mixed particles
- Dust-free loading of soda ash into rail tankcars and open trucks
- New Irish agent for Chronos Richardson
- Recovering cosmetic and pharmaceutical solvents
- Acoustic cleaner frees silo hang-up
- Two more PORTABULK licensees
Week of 14 April 2008
- Handling and storage of fish nutrients
- Pharmaceutical particle size analysis
- Bringing down the cost of radar level measurement
- Total IBC discharge of thick liquids
- BTH to unveil new logo at interpack 08
- Software tool configures process safety applications
- Massive Saudi agri-bulk project successfully commissioned
Week of 7 April 2008
- Slider-bed belt scale
- Novel semi-rigid IBC for liquids
- 40th birthday for Eriez Europe
- Mini-fluidiser for bins and hoppers
- Automatic bag filling of pastes
Week of 31 March 2008
- Quick-clean centrifugal screener
- Stronger frames for Werit IBCs
- Accurate stock management by radar
- Steamable valve allows aseptic filling of liquid liners
- Palletless FIBC now available from Storsack
Week of 24 March 2008
- Fast forward for F&M
- Bulk breadcrumbs at Witwood Foods
- Enclosed belt moves coke through tight bends
- Process automation at dawn of a new era
- Magnetic filter shortlisted for award
Week of 17 March 2008
- Bag filling series gains explosion protection certification
- ADM specifies Dutch magnets for new Pennsylvania cocoa plant
- Bolt 'n' Go gets thumbs-up from CHS
- Powerful controllers for embedded automation
- Wireless technology applied to bursting discs
Week of 10 March 2008
- Heat exchanger achieves rapid cooling
- Radiometric bulk flow meter
- Sugar silos with explosion protection
- Innovative FFS system at interpack
- Precision weighing of rubber crumb
Week of 3 March 2008
- Kokeisl effective also for abrasive products
- Finncont teams up with pack2pack
- Cleaning contaminated granules and pellets
- Corrugated-board, single-trip liquid package
- UK-built weighbridge shipped to Trinidad
- Gentle pneumatic unloading from road powder tankers/dry bulk liners
- Laboratory bulk density tester
- 4th Powerflux superconducting HGMS delivered
- FeederScout selects best choice of bulk ingredient metering feeder
- Size break-through for synthetic silos
- New diverter valve is easy to install and service
- Revolutionary remote measurement of silo contents and level
- Bulk tracking with RFID tags
Week of 25 February 2008
- High-performance hygienic bag filler
- More efficient mixing of elastomer granules
- Enclosed drag conveyor transfers hydrated lime
- Quayside pneumatic of Icelandic cement
- Haver open house in October
- Quarter century of spillage prevention
Week of 18 February 2008
- Premier Tech acquires Arodo
- Classifier avoids metal contact
- Multiple safety functions from single device
- On-line particle size analysis
- Long-distance pneumatic conveying of dextrose
- BTH expands manufacturing facilities
- New vacuum receiver to be unveiled at interpack 08
- High-capacity open-mouth bagging system
- More East Europe clay micronising business for Poittemill
- Intelligent powder processing crosses Atlantic
- Lammers & van Cleeff adopts name of LC Packaging
Week of 11 February 2008
- Aumund scores in Qatar
- Grate magnets protect food ingredients
- Valves can be cleaned without dismantling
- Internal rationalisation at Zeppelin
- New MD for Spiroflow
- Radar level measurement for all dry bulks
Week of 4 February 2008
- Radioactive level measurement for thick-walled vessels
- Three-stage magnetic separator removes all metals
- Compact bucket elevator for English Whisky
- Improved design of air cannon heat protection shield
- New IBC reconditioning in UK
- Mauser and Janus Vaten start Dutch joint venture
- Weighing liquids on the move
Week of 28 January 2008
Week of 21 January 2008