News items April 2011

The Micron Cleaning Station is a unique cleaning system and will add a new dimension to the concept of cleaning. Designed by industrial air technical engineers it can handle the toughest cleaning jobs with ease. Especially in the recycling industry where a lot of dust is created due to demolishing and de- assembly operations. Suction By using a unique 3-stage separation this system is suitable for picking up pieces of coarse components such as vegetables, chips, small metals, liquids and particulate matter up to 1 micron, without immediately blockage of the filter. This a constant and strong suction power all the time. Blowing Beside suction cleaning, this system can be turned in a second into a powerful blower. With our special lance blowing speeds of 300 km per hour can be achieved. This is similar as blowing a compressed air pistol, only more powerful by a multitude of air volume. With the Micron Cleaning Station you can first blow-off dust and pieces

DEPRAG flowform screw fastening assembly system also copes with tight spaces Mixed materials for car bodies require alternative fastening techniques. Fierce competition has broken out in the automotive industry. Who can build the lightest car? The less a vehicle weighs, the more likely it is to meet maximum energy efficiency requirements. Cars of the future will be measured by their fuel consumption and CO2 emissions. Regardless of whether the car is powered by an electric drive system, a hybrid drive, or has a conventional combustion engine - the lightweights will come out top! However, car bodies must lose none of the necessary rigidity. Modern car body engineers are experimenting with suitable compound materials, combining different metals such as steel and aluminium. This meant a rethink of the assembly processes. With these material pairings, conventional fastening techniques such as resistance welding are extremely impractical and have to be achieved by other joining processes. Fasteners such as rivets are experiencing a revival, where

From Aglio-Olio to Lemon pepper: The market for spice mixtures is booming. AVA will exhibit its special competence in the challenging field of dry spice mixtures on the upcoming trade shows Interpack and Schüttgut. The main task in the production of dry spice mixtures is the gentle homogenization of the different components. Preventing the fracturing of the fragile parts is one of the most difficult challenges. Operating with choppers can be a necessary option to avoid building of agglomerates if the product consists of fatty components or if small amounts of additives are fed. In a further production method small amounts of liquid aromas and flavor enhancers are dispersed and simultaneously homogenized with the main batch. For all of these applications AVA can offer the proper system-tailored to your individual requirements. Over years AVA mixers for example at ALMI, Global Foods, Syral and many other companies are running very successful and of course

Sanitory design for the packaging, pharmaceutical and food industry At Interpack 2011, hall 13, stand A90, the Bavarian company S+S Separation and Sorting Technology GmbH will show its new inline magnet, the MAGBOX MXF Food/Pharma with maximum field strength, durable stainless steel housing, and improved sanitary design. MAGBOX MXF Food/Pharma is predominantly used in food, pharmaceutical , and industries where high performance is critical. The high-quality, high-performance unit guarantees efficient separation of fine ferrous contaminants and magnetised stainless steel particles. Each variant has the proven S+S EASY CLEAN feature which offers straightforward maintenance and quick, simple cleaning. Improved hygienic design details for the MAGBOX MXF include a latched handle for removing the magnet cores from their casing, and stainless steel star screws with captive bolts for opening the inline magnet. Every component is designed for easy cleaning. Stephan Treml, S+S Product Manager for magnet systems, adds: `Our objective

Minmetal / North Star Shipping - A cargo handling terminal on the Black Sea. One of the latest projects is the new cargo handling terminal for North Star Shipping at the port of Constanta on the Black Sea. The plant is primarily a place of transshipment and an intermediate storage facility. The grain is collected throughout Romania at grain collection facilities along the Danube route and then loaded onto deep-sea vessels (Panamax ships) from river craft, trains and trucks at the port of Constanta. A total of 240,000 tons can be stored in the 32 round steel silos at the cargo handling terminal. For better hygiene and improved quality, all the elevators have residue-free conveying systems. In this special design “made by Schmidt-Seeger”, the construction was modified to minimize gaps and eliminate all dead angles and spaces. The result is 99.9% residue-free conveying of the product. This has the major benefit that no residue is left in the conveyor, which in turn means a higher standard of hygiene. As for the trough chain conveyors, the customer

Minmetal / North Star Shipping - A cargo handling terminal on the Black Sea. All over the world grain is counted as one of our most valuable staple foodstuffs. To meet the growth in demand for modern logistics systems, Bühler and Schmidt-Seeger will in future be working together, having now created Bühler’s new Grain Logistics Business Unit together. One of the latest projects is the new cargo handling terminal for North Star Shipping at the port of Constanta on the Black Sea. The plant is primarily a place of transshipment and an intermediate storage facility. The grain is collected throughout Romania along the Danube route and then loaded onto deep-sea vessels at the port of Constanta. A total of 240,000 tons can be stored in the 32 round steel silos at the cargo handling terminal. Incoming deliveries can be brought by truck, rail and river craft. Schmidt-Seeger supplied four receiving facilities with a capacity of 400t/h. Further there are also two ship receiving areas, each of which has a capacity of 400 t/h. After the product has

KSE Process Technology shows at Victam how monitoring and displaying KPI’s will increase the efficiency of your production processes. Also fast and accurate dosing can be improved with 20%. Furthermore KSE shows a pneumatic flow conveying. Defining and monitoring Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are essential for maximizing the efficiency of a process line. Operators can immediately see how the lines they are responsible for are performing, and be motivated to take quick action to stay on target. In addition to displaying the KPIs on the PROMASST automation screens, they can also be displayed on any computer via an Internet browser, keeping management constantly up to date. Reporting tool PROMASST has a reporting tool that can be easily configured to display as the performance parameters of your line in real time. You can choose the KPIs that are important to your processes, for example, how your line is running in terms of input tonnage, amount produced,

Because of the increased demand in Germany and Eastern Europe, Dufitec opened a site in Kranenburg (Germany). This is where the various filters and installations will be built. Pleas check our website for more information. Dufitec GmbH Im Hammereisen 27J D-47559 Kranenburg-Nütterden

50 partners from 30 different countries to their headquarters from UWT The international guests enjoyed an eventful program at headquarters in Betzigau and at a rustic hotel in the idyllic village Wald. The partners joined presentations of the economic and technical development and extended their knowledge in interesting trainings. Besides, they enjoyed collective team events, Bavarian culture and cosiness. Not only well-known partners from Europe, Asia, Russia and America found their way to Germany but also new partners from e.g. Morocco, Belarus, Tunisia, Ireland and Egypt. The hosts of UWT GmbH created a varied agenda which began with different presentations of UWT staff. They presented not only technical and commercial developments but also current information on the strategic 7-years target plan. In the afternoon, the participants enjoyed and strengthened their togetherness and relations at a funny event in the sun. On Saturday morning, all partners gathered at the headquarters in Betzigau. They joined guided tours through the

Dialight Because of the big interest in the industrial (ATEX) LED lighting of Dialight, a new website is designed to inform our customers as best as possible. For now the site is only available in Dutch. On short term, the website will be available in English.

the Evolution in powder flow measurement The Evolution Powder Tester is an economical and easy-to-use powder flow tester that measures the unconfined yield strength of a powdered material (a critical flow property). The unconfined yield strength can be measured at one pressure or at many different pressures in order to create a flow function. The flow function presents the material"s gain in strength after more pressure had been applied to it. Evolution Powder Tester Advantages: + Measure powder flow behavior of a compressed sample directly + At a fraction of the cost of competitive instruments + Cheap sets of multiple cells for time consolidation Working Principle: The powder or granular material is filled into the measurement cup of the EPT. The sample cup is placed into the instrument and is automatically compressed to a given value (major consolidation stress). In a second step the instrument pushes the sample cake out of the cup and slowly increases pressure until breakage of

Well-known UWT Products with Innovative Specials From now on, the rotating paddle switches of renowned series Rotonivo RN3000/6000 and 4000 are offered with universal-voltage-electronic without jumper. This guarantees worldwide applications without reconnecting. In the future, these products run with an internal heating system. As a result, applications up to -20°C without further options are possible. The ideal sealing arrives from the addition of a flat gasket with sealing shoulder- so without the usage of a teflon tape. Moreover, negative pressure improved from -0.5 to -0.9 bar in order to prevent restrictions for any kind of production. The series Rotonivo RN 4000 gains enhanced stability and more space for connection range. Furthermore, it can be switched towards the process connection- thus, does not need to be fixed. An overview of diverse news and specials: • New generation cover screws allow easy handling • Shaft seal of plastic socket prevents fissure formation • Threads now with 1 ¼’’ •

Technology - Applications - Operation In a new product video Retsch Technology present the technology and the convenient operation of the optical particle analyzer Camsizer XT. The CAMSIZER XT is an advancement of the well-proven optical measurement system CAMSIZER for fi ner samples. It not only features newly developed optics with a higher resolution but also enhanced options for sample feeding. Fine particles tend to agglomerate which makes it difficult to detect the geometric dimensions of each individual particle. It is therefore benefi cial to have various possibilities of feeding the sample to the measurement area, fi nding for each material the best way to separate the agglomerates without destroying the primary particles. The CAMSIZER XT provides fl exible solutions: from the free fall mode, which is the most gentle method for the material, to air pressure dispersion with adjustable pressure and variable nozzle geometry and, additionally, a wet module in which particles are dispersed in liquids,

Real-time Extension of Kithara Supports Multi-Core CPUs The company Kithara Software announces an improvement of their real-time extension »RealTime Suite« 2011, which takes the trend towards multiple parallel running CPU cores into account. It allows the parallel execution of real-time tasks and the assignment of them to different CPU cores. PC-based automation provides diverse benefits, which are not only lie in the fact, that the visualization of a machine or equipment can be comfortably implemented—especially using Windows as the operating system. Automation, robotics, industrial image processing and test benches in most cases need complex calculations and therefore a powerful PC. For historical reasons, in many machines and test benches even today more than one computer is used, although this is not necessary anymore due to the increased performance of today’s PCs. The »RealTime Suite« 2011 allows for the execution of all automation tasks on one single PC by assigning them to the different CPU cores. Unused

The multifunctional milling system made by Frewitt is simple, economical, and not only that: it work What used to take three machines can now be accomplished on one system: the dry and wet milling of hard, soft, crystalline, and fibrous products as well as the deagglomeration, sizing, homogenization, control sieving, and pulverization thereof are now feasible with a single drive assembly. The Design Because the multifunctional milling system was intended to be especially suited for product development and small to medium-scale production, during the design phase emphasis was placed on modularity and easy handling. The result: three different milling heads, depending on the milling process, can be easily and quickly coupled to one drive. The Processes The concept of the multifunctional system consists of a conical sieve mill that can be converted to a hammer mill or sizing device with a rotary sieve drum by changing the milling head. The conical sieve mill is suited for deagglomerating and homogenizing dry and wet products, the hammer mill is suited for grinding

WinCos.Traceability The traceability of products today is a requirement in all areas of the food industry. Plant operators can safeguard themselves against financial damage by installing a traceability system, which reflects the process as closely as possible and is complete from end to end. Such a system must on the one hand comply with the applicable legal standards and regulations, and on the other hand offer food producers the ability of proving to their customers – on the basis of tamper-proof documentation – the origin and the production process applied. The “WinCos.Traceability” tool integrated in the proven Buhler WinCos process control system ensures complete product traceability, measures production weights, analyzes incorporated process lines, and graphically displays the product flow from the raw material going into the process to the end product coming out of it. “The ‘WinCos.Traceability’ module records the entire production process from beginning to end and

Performance of Loss in Weight Feeders depends on accuracy, linearity, stability, drift and quantity of raw material in the hopper. Weigh modules with MonoBloc Technology meet these requirements perfectly. Improve performance of your equipment with high resolution weigh modules which will expand time of uninterrupted operation at the highest accuracy. The performance of feeders range from 100g up to 50,000 kg per hour. The accuracy ranges from 0.25 to 1 %. The maximum achievable accuracy depends on the properties of the material being dispensed. A characteristic of loss in weight feeders is the cyclical change between controlled gravimetric dispensing and uncontrolled volumetric dispensing during refilling. The uncontrolled volumetric dispensing during refilling has to be kept as brief as possible in order to achieve accurate results. An suitable electronic feeder control and a conveyor, which fits to the material properties of the dispensed product, can strongly

More Features, Lower Price New Features Of The Series S3000 o Span Adjustment For Calibration o Integral Push-On Pressure Connections o Tubing and (2) Static Sensors Included o Lower Price Sensocon, Inc. is improving the standard for low differential pressure gauges with the new Sensocon® Series S3000. The Sensocon® Series S3000 is based on the same rugged, reliable design as the Series S2000, but has new features, extra installation accessories, and a lower price. In the old design, calibration of this type of gauge was limited to minor adjustments of zero. Over time, if the zero adjustment didn`t offer adequate calibration the gauge would need to be completely disasembled to modify the calibration but in most cases resulted in scrapping the gauge or using a gauge that didn`t meet the specified accuracy. The new Sensocon® Series S3000 has solved this problem with a span adjustment screw on the back of the gauge allowing quick and easy calibration adjustment by the user.

Industrial ATEX LED lighting The first of its kind, the Dialight SafeSiteTM LED High Bay luminaire was designed specifically to replace conventional lighting in a wide variety of Hazardous Area applications, both indoor and outdoor. Its low profile light weight design and versatile mounting options make it ideal for High Bay and Flood Lighting applications for ATEX and IECEx classified Hazardous Area Zones. All of Dialight’s long life LED luminaires are designed to meet the most demanding specification criteria while offering maximum energy savings, reduced maintenance costs, and a superior quality of light.

Highest mixing homogeneity and the hygienic design characterize the continuous mixers GCM made by Gericke. The series has now been further improved by the models type GCM ECB. With the latest design it is possible to extract the drive and the mixer housing for easy access. The mixer has 3 operation positions: - 1 Mixing position - 2 Cleaning positions The GCM 800 ECB and 1200 ECB are equipped with a cantilevered shaft and a shaft seal which can be dismantled completely in a very simple way. In this hygienic version, the parts in contact with the product are polished. The mixer has no hollow bodies where residue can build up. The experiences made with the mixers during the operation have been incorporated in the design of this latest model. For the user it means a remarkable improvement in regard of accessibility to all components and excellent cleanability of the mixer. The GCM mixer is suitable for the operation in ATEX zones. Optionally the mixer can be