Archive August 2012

Now: The greener option from Masterflex - Hoses made of Renewable Resources The new Master-PURgreen hoses add yet more value to the Masterflex product range - these ‘green’ hose versions are manufactured from up to 52% renewable resources. Bio-plastics are being used evermore frequently. Especially in recent times times when climate change and environmental issues are playing an even greater role than before. Renewable resources and energy sources are the keywords, which have attained an increasingly greater importance in the context of environmental protection. All agricultural and forestry resources not used for nutrition or feeding purposes are raw materials, which are renewable within a relatively short period of time. “Nowadays, the majority of our customers feel it’s important to make a contribution to a better environment” said Christian Horstkoetter, Sales & Marketing Manager at Masterflex AG, Germany. “Sustainability is a key issue across the board in all industries, and one to which we want to contribute. We want to…

Lindor who are based in the Netherlands have designed and built a special heated mixer for Switzerland based BUSS AG. The mixing drum has been designed using state of the art technologies. The heated mixer is being used for enhancing product characteristics of special compounds which are produced by BUSS compounding lines in several countries. BUSS AG is a global market leader in building special process equipment such as kneaders for producing (plastic) compounds. In the process of producing special HDPE and LDPE compounds, the Lindor mixer with heated mixing drum, is used for soaking the granulate with a special liquid. Also while mixing, the heated liquid is being sprayed onto the granulate, which enables the materials to gain the required characteristics within a defined conversion time. Mr. Hans Hügel, Sales Manager Overseas Business at BUSS AG, comments: “We have been working together with Lindor for about five years and we have integrated the heated…

GreCon fire protection concept sees to safe beet chip drying at Nordzucker When drying beet chips, a by-product of the sugar production that is popular as animal feed, fire can easily occur in the dryer drums and the downstream transport ducts. Due to very high drying temperatures of about 600 degrees, glowing particles can occur even in the area of humid chips. If these glowing particles reach the dried material at the dryer outlet, they can result in big glowing embers. If ignition sources reach the downstream transport or exhaust ducts, fire can spread out in large parts of the dry chip processing and destroy, at worst, complete production plants. Although spark detection and temperature monitoring have been standard in these plant areas for many years, an automatic extinguishment has, however, been missing in the entire industry. This insufficient safety equipment has been a very unsatisfactory situation for Europe`s second largest sugar manufacturer, Nordzucker AG, for a long time and led to cases of damage and production interruptions…

Berlin, 8.8.2012: LUM GmbH is market leader in innovative analysers for direct and accelerated stability analysis and particle characterization of dispersions. Following the approved growth strategy, with the relocation in 2012 a further important step forward is taken, now allowing LUM to offer customer solutions in the field of material testing, too. Prof. Dr. Lerche, Managing Director of LUM GmbH, explains: „After 18 years in the Innovation and Business Incubation Centre / International Business Incubator IGZ/OWZ we gratefully thank their team for the good collaboration, allowing LUM to grow from a start-up business to a market leading company. But, as an established company we have reached space limits. In our new headquarters Justus-von-Liebig-Strasse 3 in Germany"s most successful science and technology park Berlin Adlershof, we move to an area of approximately 1500 square meters, fully designed and finished according to our needs and based on state-of-the-art…