Tag Archives: Bulk Material Handling Equipment Design and Automation

Bulk Material Packaging Operation Uses Three, High-capacity Storage Vessels To Ensure 50,000 pound/hour Process Rate

Posted on April 20, 2012 by John Vargo

This self-contained, high-volume bulk material packaging system processes up to 50,000 pounds/hour of combustible materials of varied physical characteristics, including: interlocking flakes and free-flowing, friable rods. Process operations include: material discharge from bulk bags; material introduction from belt flaker units; enclosed, vertical conveying; high-capacity bulk storage; material conditioning; and packaging into bulk bags. Integral to [...]
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New Bulk Bag Unloader System with 5-station Cluster Design Processes 12 Million Pounds per Year

Posted on April 14, 2012 by timw

Recently commissioned, this new, 5-station, bulk bag unloader system combines high-capacity structural construction with a centralized controls and automation architecture to safely and accurately supply to downstream process operations a total of 12 million pounds/year of five, combustible input ingredients. Each new bulk bag unloader station, included in the 5-station cluster, is constructed of thick-wall, [...]
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Protecting Fragile Food Product During Bulk Food Processing Operations

Posted on February 17, 2012 by timw

This automated bulk material handling system provides a total process solution for moving highly fragile food product through multiple process operations into bulk storage for temporary holding prior to final packaging. At a process rate of 12,000 pounds per hour, bulk totes of food product are nested into a lift carriage; the tote is sealed [...]
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Sanitary Bulk Material Handling Equipment Accessibility: Bringing Speed, Safety, and Confidence to Cleaning

Posted on January 16, 2012 by timw

Processing and packaging operations are becoming acutely aware of the significant cleanability and product safety advantages that result from the use of sanitary, application-specific material handling equipment versus force-fit, general industrial units. With the increased awareness and importance given to cleanability, plant operations, supervisory staff, and management are, now, looking for methods to improve equipment [...]
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Sanitary Bulk Material Handling Equipment Cleanability: Value, Risk & Outcome

Posted on December 14, 2011 by timw

Can a typical, industrial bulk material handling system in a sanitary processing operation be thoroughly cleaned, even to the microbial level? Probably. But, with every cleaning event of a process-inappropriate bulk material handling system comes increased costs for labor, consumables (such as detergents and water), and energy. And, more importantly,  with hard-to-clean equipment in sanitary [...]
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Sanitary Bulk Material Handling Equipment: Structural Design and Contaminant Removal

Posted on November 16, 2011 by timw

As part of an ongoing series regarding sanitary bulk material handling equipment, this post will address the specific issue of structural design of sanitary bulk material handling equipment, and the critical role structural design has in ensuring the safety of sanitary product. Of course, sanitary structural design and sanitary materials of construction are equally important [...]
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Sanitary Bulk Material Handling Equipment: Materials of Construction In Process-specific Applications

Posted on October 13, 2011 by timw

In an earlier post, some of the risks of integrating process-inappropriate equipment into sanitary bulk material handling applications were presented. In that post it was noted that many sanitary processing operations settle for force-fit, general industrial equipment rather than process-specific, sanitary bulk material handling equipment. “Clearly, there are degrees, or relative levels to sanitary compliance,” [...]
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Sanitary Process Equipment: Product Safety Guidelines and Standards

Posted on September 16, 2011 by timw

Processing industries, such as: food, pharmaceutical, chemical, petfood, and many more recognize, everyday, their primary objective is to produce safe product that is free of microbial and physical contaminants. This is no mystery. It’s a matter of fact. And, often, a matter of survival. Sure, their objective is clear, and the various industry guidelines, third-party [...]
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Bulk Bag Unloaders Integrate Material Metering and Blending Processes

Posted on August 12, 2011 by timw

The bulk material packaging and processing marketplace is expected to reach $134.9 billion in 2011. And, according to a research report published by Visiongain, much of this will be driven by consumer-level market demand for pharmaceutical and chemical products. Naturally, the complexity of end-use product formulations and packaging configurations will increase as bulk material packagers [...]
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Bulk Bag Filler and Bulk Bag Unloader: Automated, Single-system Process Operation

Posted on July 16, 2011 by timw

This bulk bag filler system; receiving input material from an integrated bulk bag unloader, an integrated bag dump station, and a vibratory conveyor system, enabled the material processing operation to effectively transition to an automated, 20,000 lb./hour, bulk bag filling process from a relatively low-capacity, operator-intensive, 50 lb. bag filling system. Multiple materials, all with [...]
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