Every business want to increase profits. Companies can deploy many strategies to do so that can fall across various areas of the business, such as reducing inventory, negotiating lower prices from suppliers, or increasing marketing efforts, to name a few. When it comes to operations, the capital equipment is often already in place and is therefore a sunk cost. Increasing profitatbility in this case is usually depends on maximizing productivity of these assets. For twin-screw extrusion processes, this is most easily achieved by increasing throughput rate, thereby spreading operation costs over a greater amount of product produced in the same unit of time.
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Optimize Feeding to Make More Money in Twin-Screw Compounding
Plastics Technology
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Dense-Phase Conveying
Processing
By properly selecting the best method for the application, a much more cost-effective and reliable means of material handling can be achieved. This article outlines and defines the methods of pneumatic conveying available for a variety of unit operations in food processing.
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Three Way to Improve Continuous Loss-in-Weight Feeding Accuracy
Powder Bulk Engineering International
Today’s processed food manufacturers are constantly searching for methods to improve process efficiency, changeover times, and of course, ensuring product safety. One of the key technologies which can help address and improve all of these factors is pneumatic conveying, regardless of whether it is for the raw ingredients (major and minor), ingredient blends prior to their next process step or final product prior to packaging. By properly selecting the best method for the application, a much more cost effective and reliable means of material handling can be achieved. This article will outline and define the methods of pneumatic conveying available for a variety of unit operations in food processing.
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Dense Phase Conveying: Efficient Transfer for a Wide Variety of Food Ingredients
Middle East Food
Today’s processed food manufacturers are constantly searching for methods to improve process efficiency, changeover times, and of course, ensuring product safety. One of the key technologies which can help address and improve all of these factors is pneumatic conveying, regardless of whether it is for the raw ingredients (major and minor), ingredient blends prior to their next process step or final product prior to packaging. By properly selecting the best method for the application, a much more cost effective and reliable means of material handling can be achieved. This article will outline and define the methods of pneumatic conveying available for a variety of unit operations in food processing.
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Fully automatic bagging in a small space
cpp chemical plants + processes 2/2017
Based on many years of cooperation in plastic compounding – specifically material handling and extrusion – Sabic decided to purchase six Coperion packaging lines and a common palletising island for its plant in Pontirolo/Italy.
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Three ways to improve continuous loss-in-weight feeding accuracy
Powder Bulk Engineering
The weigh accuracy of individual recipe ingredients for a continuos blending, granulation, or extrusion process has a direct effect on product quality and bottom-line savings. This article explains how to optimize continuous loss-in-weight feeder accuracy by separating plant vibration noise from true weight loss, controlling motor speeds during feeder refill, and compensating for process pressure fluctuations.
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Better Pelletization under Water
Kunststoffe International
Die Plate Wear Protection Doubles Service Life - A new development in wear prevention on underwater pelletizer die plates is opening up the way to significant reductions in production costs, in particular for the production of polyolefins. This new wear protection is now available for the first time for the die plate of an increased capacity underwater pelletizer for throughputs of up to 70 t/h.
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Pneumatic Conveying
Cement Americas
Using wear-resistant rotary and diverter valves to help the cement industry meet requirements for handling abrasive materials.
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Solid Dose Digest - More Q&A
Tablets & Capsules
Loss-in-weight (LIW) or gravimetric feeders are devices that directly measure a material's weight to achieve and maintain a target feed rate, which is measured in units of weight per time, such as pounds per hour. This article outlines several key areas where you can optimize the performance of a feeder for your batch or continuous process.
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An Eye on Energy
Cement Americas
How choosing the right component can save energy in your cement plant.
