Process Equipment Update
in expanding capacity an opportunity to do so at a fraction of the cost of building a new facility,” said Stan Sackowitiz, IPP’s vice president of business development. “With approximately 15 other complete plants that we own for resale and an inventory of over 25 000 pieces of process equipment at our disposal, we can provide a customer a turnkey operation.” For 75 years UK company Perry Process Plant has been
working with customers in almost every process sector, including chemical, pharmaceutical, plastics and rubber, food, sugar, fishmeal and paper. The company says its success is based on a number of factors, but particularly simple economics - offering the largest choice of best quality used process equipment at the most cost-effective price - and the ability to offer sale or return turns for most equipment. The company has
recently helped DuPont Asset Management Group, Merck, Novartis Nutrition and Novartis Pharma to sell excess or unwanted plant. In the case of Novartis Nutrition this followed the closure of a manufacturing site in the United Kingdom. The Novartis Pharma contract included removal of all production equipment and infrastructure from a pharmaceutical site that was being shut down in The Netherlands. Perry has also acted as sales agent for Danish company DS Industries for the sale of three plants that produce fatty acid, chlor alkali and power. As a small example of what the company has to offer,
its website currently includes everything from an unused 148-hp, German-made centrifugal blower with a capacity of 3000m3
include pitched bottom tank equipment, dished bottom tanks, reverse dished bottoms, and cone bottom tanks to accommodate liquid, viscous and/or semi-solid materials. Tanks are constructed of aluminium, carbon steel,
fibreglass, stainless steel and nickel, while some are glass- lined. Horizontal and vertical tanks are available in many diameters/dimensions and with capacities, up to 20 000 litres. Also available for sale are sphere tanks and high-pressure tanks (Fig.1). Process Plant and Machinery (PPM) was first established in 2003 as an offshoot of UK industrial services company Haas-Tek. Operating from a purpose-built five hectare site in Scotland, two-thirds of the company’s turnover now comes from overseas markets as diverse as Bulgaria, Libya, Ghana, the UAE, Denmark and Ireland. Among its current offerings are a 51 000litre insulated and clad liquid silo, a 27 200litre stainless steel jacketed horizontal tank, a refurbished 30 000litre Alfa Laval Bactofuge separator, and a 30 000litre/hour milk pasteurisation and standardisation plant. F A Maker is one of the largest process equipment dealers in the southern hemisphere with a reputation for
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www.engineerlive.com /h to a selection of used tanks and vessels. These
quality service and machines. Extensive workshop facilities and a diverse range of skills mean that the company is one of Australia’s most versatile and experienced process/plant equipment operators. F A Maker has over ten acres of new and used machinery
for the chemical, food, process, recycling, mining and manufacturing industries. Among its latest acquisitions are two 20-30t/d Simon
Rosedown screw presses, a 10-40micron output crushing/ milling plant, seven stainless steel powder hoppers and frames, and three flameproof tanks with 5500, 8000 and 10 000litre capacities.
DMC Industries is another player and it focuses on quality
“Magnified by the current economic conditions, we meet a niche that allows a company interested in expanding capacity an opportunity to do so at a fraction of the cost of building a new facility …
“… with approximately 15 other complete plants that we own for resale and an inventory of over 25 000 pieces of process equipment at our disposal, we can provide a customer a turnkey operation.”
Stan Sackowitiz, IPP’s Vice President of Business Development
new and pre-owned packaging and processing equipment for the pharmaceutical, cosmetic, nutraceutical, chemical, food and allied industries. This company’s sales strategy is based on having an extensive inventory on its premises and the ability to offer consignment services and appraisals for single pieces, lines or entire facilities.
Among its offerings are
a 3ft3 Gemco slant cone formulator with hastelloy contact surfaces and stainless steel jacket, frame and guards. Another is a Manesty
35 station BB3B tablet press, which comes complete with feed frames, hoppers and guards. As with the other companies in the second-hand market, a lot more technical detail about all of its equipment is available on the site. A different approach has been taken by Kitmondo, which is an online marketplace for used processing equipment, used packaging equipment and used manufacturing equipment. Each day, buyers and sellers throughout the world visit Kitmondo’s classified ads in order to browse through thousands of listings containing used processing equipment, used packaging equipment and used manufacturing equipment. To find out more about each item of equipment and to contact the seller, it’s simply a question of just clicking on the listings page. One of its current items is a one million square feet
used clean air recovery vacuum system, with a price tag of US$76 000. Kitmondo includes extensive descriptions of many of the items on its site and the vacuum system, for example, is described as being factory maintained and in excellent condition. Detailed information is also included about the vacuum
pressure tank itself, electrical motors, gauges and available manuals and servicing literature. Another example is a 50 feet Hytrol case conveyor that is listed for US$10 000. A smaller item on the site is a 1000 gallon used vertical stainless steel tank. A general description of its size is given, although to find out more about its technical spec and price, potential buyers are asked in this - and other - cases to contact the seller direct via the website. n
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