Why Waste Material When We Can Capture and Reuse It?
Why Waste Material When We Can Capture and Reuse It? Material shortages, staffing and supply chain issues, and constantly increasing prices for what material is available make every ounce more valuable, and every ounce wasted more costly. Allowing material to be discarded when we have the ability to capture, recover, and reuse it never made […]
Vast Experience Testing Hundreds of Materials Ensures Every Conveyor Works as Specified
Vast Experience Testing Hundreds of Materials Ensures Every Conveyor Works as Specified We received an inquiry from the owner of a nutrition company who asked how fast we could deliver a pneumatic vacuum conveying system. He had recently automated a few steps in the packaging line with excellent results in line speed and labor savings […]
Growing Nutraceutical Companies Need to Think Like Big Pharma When Buying Equipment
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 often focuses on meeting the […]
Can You Identify the Combustible Dust Hazards in this Scenario?
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 the standard operating procedures in […]
Why Avoiding Dust Explosions is Better Than Suppressing or Containing Them After the Fact – And Here’s 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 of 31.8 combustible dust explosions […]
A special pneumatic conveying solution for transfer of a reactive material
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
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 developed solutions to address these […]
Accurately weigh and dose bulk products into a process
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 Conweigh addressing a recipe to […]
Eliminate lumps when conveying powders from bags
Eliminate lumps when conveying powders from bags The VOLKMANN lump breaker works to break down agglomerates that can occur in bags or other storage containers, or result due to the nature of the product. The lump breaker can be mounted directly by a flange under a Volkmann rip and tip (RNT) sack loading station. It […]
Optimize conveying and dosage in food manufacturing
Optimize conveying and dosing of powders and solids in food manufacturing The food industry is one of the most interesting of the industries handling and processing bulk goods. Hardly any other sector can offer such a variety of different powders, granulates and bulk / piece goods in their processing. Because of this, there are a […]
