News items July 2009

Bursting with energy and vitamins, from the humble apple to exotic combinations such as lychee and guava, there are fruit juices on the market to satisfy every taste. The drinks provide countless vitamins and minerals and are perfect for the health conscious. Many scientific studies underline the connection between an ample and varied intake of fruit and vegetables and the reduction of diet-related illnesses. The initiative group “5 a day” has the goal of persuading people to eat 5 pieces of fruit or vegetables per day in order to meet all the body’s needs. If you require a quick fix then the practical answer is a portion of fruit or vegetable juice. DEPRAG SCHULZ GMBH & CO. in Amberg, Germany is a global supplier and specialist in the production of air vane motors. The DEPRAG Advanced Line motor range is recommended for use in the food industry. This range has a comprehensive selection of non-corrosive, sealed air vane motors suitable for oil-free use. The

OPDwin Visu lite is laid out on the demands of the visualisation and handling of less complicated processes and is available in the versions Small, Middle and Large. With OPDwin Visu lite small the company OPDENHOFF Technologie GmbH offers a system solution with which customary scales can be handled and on a Panel the cradle parametres for up to 3 components can be purport. With the bigger versions of OPDwin Visu lite several scales can be handled, be purport up to 8 components respectively up to 40 recipes can be stored directly in the Panel. Scale parametres and recipes can be transfered over according to the version of the OPDwin Visu lite also by higher systems like OPDwin Visu or OPDwin PMS. This system solution offers you the following functions: · Order oriented weighing of recipes · Retraceability by an exact logging with operator`s role · Additionally a raw material balance by logging Scales can be connected to the control over

Vortex Valves Hit The Road! The US manufacturer of bulk dry material handling valves, Vortex®, has emulated its unique and highly popular American sales promotion tool in Europe. After their parent company spent many years showcasing their unique valve designs using mobile demonstration units Vortex® Valves Europe Limited have acquired a similar unit for the roads of the UK and Europe. The exhibition trailer has an open side activated by gas struts and contains a complete set of the Vortex® valve range. The unit has a stand alone pneumatic and both 12 volt and 220 volt electric systems that allow all products to be shown in full working order at any location however remote. The unit also contains state of the art presentation hardware to allow films and animations to be shown to support the working samples. Jan Le Blansch from ITS BV said “Although the trailer represents a considerable investment by Vortex® it is an invaluable tool to help our potential clients appreciate just

Well developed solutions for the plastics and recycling industry S+S will present their whole product range at Drinktec/PetPoint 2009: Sorting Systems to recycle plastic packaging, inductive metal separators, often used during the production process of PET pre-forms or closing caps, as well as magnetic and metal separators for contamination detection in liquid and pasty products. The highlight of the show will be the new Flake Purifier to recycle plastic drink packaging. Based on a modular concept, this machine can combine up to three sensors for contamination detection. In addition to the third generation of refined sensors for metal and colour separation, the Flake Purifier is also equipped with a high-performance module to recognise contamination. This means, PET flakes can now be separated from PVC flakes or organic material (previously known to lower the quality of the recycling material dramatically or making high quality recycling impossible). The newly introduced multi-spectral sensor makes it possible to complete three

Masterflex emphasizes die safeness of products with all single components Since many years Masterflex AG, producer of hoses and hose systems, is in possession of an approval for Master-Food hoses acc. to EN 2002/72/EC and complementary directive EN 2007/19/EC since 20. September 2007. Masterflex always emphasizes the safeness of products with all single components. It concerns the plastic materials as well as the used metal spiral beads and connecting elements. Therefore Masterflex decided already some years ago to produce all Master-Food-hoses exclusively with stainless steel helixes. It’s the helix that makes the difference Some hose manufacturers still use copper-plated wire helixes that may endanger food safety. The helix can become exposed due to abrasion, causing rust build-up or copper particles to contaminate the foodstuffs conveyed. Copper corrodes in the presence of acids and forms copper salts. Directive 2005/79/EC, amending Directive 2002/72/EC, lays down strict migration limits for all copper salts, which means conveyed

On the island Gotland, Sweden, the construction site für the dedusting of the rotary kiln line 8 at Cementa AB, Slite, is already set up. The pipelines and steelworks are now on their way by land and sea to the East Sea. This is not an everyday delivery. With measurements of 4.5 m diameter this was only possible with an approved and escorted heavy and special load.

The technology- and innovationcentre TIZ, where Intensiv-Filter Austria is located, celebrated its anniversary. Landeshauptmann Dr. Josef Phringer took the 5-year existence as an occasion to congratulate. Dr. Phringer got an general idea about industrial filtration technology in a personal conversation with Markus Kislinger, Project Manager at Intensiv-Filter Austria. The politician is certainly familiar with the steel plant VOEST in Linz, that dedusts with Intensiv-Filter. The dedusting of the west-bypass Linz was an encouraged discussion. By the end of 2008 about 550 companies with more than 3.000 employees were active in the 21 TIZ-centres - a platform for innovation and technology.

Shear tester for industrial application, Chemical industry..... Shear tester / Quality Control: Shear tester for industrial application, Chemical industry, Mining research, Cement industry, Pharmaceutics industry, density, compressive strength, time consolation, flow ability, angle of international friction, cohesion Applications: quality control classification of powders flow ability certification for sales department material engineering design of powder handling installations technology calculations Features: Measurements independent of the operator Measurements up to 5 yield loci with one sample Simultaneous Measurement of stresses and density Frictionless Measurement by air bearing of the shear cell High accuracy and reproducibility Shear tester with equipment for simultaneous measurement of shear stresses and density during the shearing, microprocessor IBM-Comp. Monitor, keyboard, electronic I/O control, programs for measurement and evaluation. Control of optimal mixture Control of raw materials Specification

When powders of granular products are put in bags, undesirable agglomerates may form, even after a limited time. Attempts have been made to counteract this problem with a two step solution: a lump breaker and à sieve mill. However, there is another, vastly more effective method, When materials in which agglomerates have formed (such as salts, carriers, pigments9 are used in powder processing, it is recommended to subject them to a gentle sizing process that acts on their natural lines of fracture until the agglomerates are return to their original from and size. With the DelumpWitt, frewitt has developed a device in which the product is not subjected to outside forces that violently smash or destroys it. Instead, the grains are either carefully separated at the band lines, they adhere together or else the agglomerates simply fall apart at their natural lines of fracture, The DelumpWitt, a novel device developed by frewitt turns the disadvantages of the old procedure

Historically Hosokawa Micron B.V. have supplied a lot of vacuum dryers that are used in the pharmaceutical industry. In this industry, industrial batch sizes are typically 1000 – 6000 liters. Due to more stringent requirements in the chemical industry, for example lower critical temperatures and lower end moistures, it is becoming more and more important to be able to dry at low temperatures and deep vacuum levels. Chemical products like polymers, pigments, chemically produced toners and agro chemicals are being produced in large quantities and capacities. Products which need to be dried under vacuum conditions are often heat sensitive, which means that hot spots or local heat input should be avoided. Therefore bearings or bottom supports in the dryer are not allowed. As it can be imagined this should also be avoided at any time for the pharmaceutical industry. As a result of on- going developments in the drive construction, not only for mixers but also for

The RETSCH product range of laboratory mills includes three Planetary Ball Mills which meet and exceed demands for quick and reproducible grinding of solids down to the submicron range: · Benchtop model PM 100 CM with 1 grinding station · Benchtop model PM 200 with 2 grinding stations · Floor model PM 400 with 4 grinding stations for up to 8 samples – this mill was completely redesigned and now offers new features such as power failure backup The construction of the mills allows for maximum energy transfer, so even the most difficult materials can be ground without problems. They are also suitable for mechanical alloying and meet all the technical requirements for colloidal grinding. The RETSCH Planetary Ball Mills convince with their top-quality grinding results combined with the highest degree of operating comfort. They are used for grinding samples such as minerals, ores, alloys, ceramics, soils and waste down to a fineness of approx. 0.1 µm. The grinding

Size reduction of very hard materials with a feed size < 100 mm down to 0.1 mm final fineness Wherever large pieces of brittle samples had to be prepared for analysis, many laboratories employed a jaw crusher such as Fritsch"s PULVERISETTE 1 for the pre-crushing stage, since the original feed size was too large to be handled by the final grinding mill. Previously samples could not be prepared for analysis in a single operation because a jaw crusher could not achieve an adequate product fineness and because grinding mills can only handle a limited range of feed size. Fritsch have applied themselves to this particular problem and have developed a disk mill PULVERISETTE 13. In a relatively short processing time this mill can reduce material of a preset grain size to a fineness of minimum 0.1 mm even when processing relatively large samples (up to 20 mm edge length). If the required fineness is of this order but the samples supplied to the laboratory include pieces with an edge length of over 20 mm, Fritsch can supply the perfect solution for this problem: Both

DEPRAG SCHULZ GMBH u. CO. is confronting the growing challenges within the industry of series assembly with the innovative redesign of its existing product families. In July 2009, the experienced automation specialists, with particular expertise in the field of feeding technology, are launching a new generation of screw feeding machines, Series 6, onto the market. DEPRAG has improved on its renowned machines by augmenting the range of functions, heightening processing reliability and further increasing user-friendliness. Billions of screws are assembled every day in worldwide industrial production—screws with diverse dimensions, light and heavy, screws that you can hardly grasp with your fingers, screws for electrical toothbrushes, mobile phones, kitchen mixers, screws for automotive or aircraft parts, and many more applications. They are all assembled in manual workstations or positioned by semi-automated or complex fully automated production systems. No matter

Dinnissen Process Technology and K-Tron are introducing a new variant of Pandora End of Line Mixing® especially suited for significantly reducing rework. This enables companies to realize significant savings on the costs involved in the collection and removal of rework and the cleaning costs during the production process. It goes without saying that the new mixing concept retains the original classic characteristics which have made Pandora End of Line Mixing® into such a success. New mixer reduces the costs of collection, recycling and cleaning. The new variant of Pandora End of Line Mixing®, which we will be introducing to the market this summer, was specially developed to significantly reduce rework. The very accurate feeders from K-tron respond extremely quickly to the process controls. In addition, this new variant of the Pandora End of Line Mixing® concept is fitted with a special batch-start-up-setting, based on intelligent cut-off valves which close off

with the Mortar Grinder PULVERISETTE 2 In the pharmaceutical technology (formerly galenics) one is occupied with the production of various pharmaceutical forms like for example tablets, pastilles or dragées. In these the desired active pharmaceutical ingredients are added. In order to verify in regards to quality management that the desired amount of pharmaceutical ingredients was added in a tablet, an element analysis is performed. Hereby the tablet is pulverized. With the mortar mill FRITSCH PULVERISETTE 2, 10-20 tablets are ground. In order for no ingredients to disappear due to the application of energy, the mortar mill is the proper choice. The grinding action of the pestle does not increase the temperature during the grinding process. The pharmaceutical ingredients remain constant. After a grinding duration of 1-5 minutes a homogenous powder is achieved with a particle size of < 100µm. We recommend grinding sets made of agate or hard porcelain. Even dragées or coated tablets may be ground. But