"With the old blender, it took 4-5 hours to feed the powder by hand or using an
auger conveyor.
The surge hopper is equipped with an optional dual-shaft agitator that de-agglomerates material and promotes flow into an optional, integral
auger conveyor to feed a downstream process.
Materials-handling equipment includes box dumpers, lift and seal box dumpers, high-lift box dumpers, high-lift and seal box dumpers, gaylord tilters, transfer hoppers,
auger conveyor systems, bulk-bag fillers, bulk-bag unloaders, bulk-storage silos and surge bins.
"We just had to re-torque the drum head for the
auger conveyor one time when the LED light told us to.
Andy Moniz, chemical process manager, says he first considered gravity feed, then a stainless steel rigid
auger conveyor. The 12-ft.
A heavy stainless steel solid flight
auger conveyor system presented the main hurdle to running two more products on the original line.
When the plant is ready to run a batch, an
auger conveyor takes corn into weigh hoppers for a consistent weight of corn for each batch.
After the product is mixed, an
auger conveyor from Flexicon Inc., Phillipsburg, N.J., takes it to a holding bin, and another Flexicon conveyor carries it to an auger filler from AMS Filling Systems Inc., Malvern, Pa.
Box dumpers, gaylord filters, transfer hoppers,
auger conveyor systems, bulk-storage silos, and surge bins.
The PUR powder is continuously added to the polyol stream by an
auger conveyor feeding a special two-stage blending station.
Materials-handling equipment includes box dumpers, gaylord tilters, transfer hoppers,
auger conveyor systems, bulk-storage silos and surge bins.
Aggressive washing reduces paper to a pulp, which is removed by rinsing the flake with boiling water as an
auger conveyor lifts it up an inclined cage.