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01-10-2026  |  118 x
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Akona booth at PACK EXPO 2025 (photo: Akona Process Solutions)

Akona to Showcase Bulk Handling Portfolio at PACK EXPO 2026

Akona Process Solutions will present its complete portfolio of bulk material handling and processing equipment at PACK EXPO International 2026 in Chicago, featuring Cablevey, Kason, Marion and Spiroflow technologies.

Integrated processing portfolio on display

Akona Process Solutions will showcase its complete range of bulk material handling and processing solutions on Booth LL-10332 at PACK EXPO International 2026, held at McCormick Place, Chicago, from 18 to 21 October. The exhibit brings together equipment and expertise from the company's four specialist brands: Cablevey Conveyors, Kason, Marion and Spiroflow.

Live demonstrations and equipment highlights

Visitors will see an operating Cablevey tubular drag conveyor, showing the gentle, enclosed movement of powders, granules and fragile materials. The booth also features a Marion horizontal mixer alongside technologies from Kason and Spiroflow. The combined portfolio spans flexible screw and aero-mechanical conveying, bulk bag discharging and filling, centrifugal sifting, Vibroscreen circular vibratory screening, and industrial mixing and blending.

Looking at the complete process

By bringing the four brands together, Akona can look beyond individual pieces of equipment at the wider production process, from receiving and transferring raw materials through screening, sifting and conveying to mixing and blending. "For customers, that means we can look at the complete process rather than simply one piece of equipment," said Ryan Long, Director of Sales US at Akona Process Solutions.

Akona serves food and beverage, pet food, pharmaceutical, nutraceutical and specialty chemical markets. The company is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, with facilities in Marion and Oskaloosa, Iowa, and Manchester, United Kingdom.

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