Growing Nutraceutical Companies Need to Think Like Big Pharma When Buying Equipment When small nutraceutical companies need to increase production, their owners tend to ask, “What’s the cheapest way to increase production?” Due to cash flow, financing access, uncertainty about the company’s long-term viability, or other issues, the thought process
Can You Identify the Combustible Dust Hazards in this Scenario? We received a call last year that went viral internally among our engineering team. We were rather alarmed since this call suggested that even professional engineers are confused about the dangers of combustible powders and dust and/or misinformed about how
Why Avoiding Dust Explosions is Better Than Suppressing or Containing Them After the Fact – And Here’s How Combustible dust explosions happen far too often considering the vast amount of knowledge and experience accumulated among process engineers, process equipment manufacturers, industrial safety professionals, and explosion protection system suppliers. An average
Volkmann was recently challenged to provide a pneumatic conveying solution in a chemical industry process where a powdery intermediate product needed to be removed from a container – still wet from the centrifuge manufacturing process – and conveyed into a dryer. The container was located on the third floor, the dryer on the second floor. The product being transferred from the centrifuge was still wet (wet cake) and contained, among other things, dichloromethane and toluene. The customer required a safe and reliable conveying system for the transfer, as the mix of materials were difficult to handle and reactive.
Drum emptying – the easier way The emptying of powder or bulk products contained in drums can vary in difficulty depending on the flow qualities of the product being transferred, the weight of the drum and the need to contain any powder from escaping into the environment. Volkmann has
Accurately weigh and dose bulk products into a process Volkmann’s Conweigh allows accurate weighing and dosing of powders into a production process, such as mixing. It is a combined conveying and dosing system and is usually used for adding quantities from 2 kg upwards per unit. Shown here is a
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