SHAPA NEWS
Solid progress
Despite widely reported financial turbulence and challenges to industrial progress, SHAPA members have demonstrated solid progress during 2011. The Solids Handling & Processing Association has gained four new members within the past three months alone and the Association now has a membership of 111 companies. In times of more competitive trading, with technically advanced products and services, SHAPA provides a firm base of shared technical, commercial and legal knowledge and expertise for members, which is freely available. The aim is to ensure that member companies are kept at the leading edge of new developments, to promote excellence their
businesses. SHAPA also looks to the future, with events aimed at inspiring future leaders within our industries and those of our clients. Social and networking opportunities are important to any well rounded company and the recent SHAPA Race Day in Doncaster attracted a record attendance of 35 members and guests. So there are many reasons to join the SHAPA “family” if you are a manufacturer or supplier within the sphere of bulk solids handling and processing. Again, if you are looking for materials handling expertise or products check out the Product Selector to find a diverse range of high quality suppliers at
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MEMBER NEWS
New Artemis Metal Detection machines
SHAPA member Eclipse Magnetics, specialists in food processing contaminant separation and removal systems, has launched its Artemis range of metal detectors. Designed to ensure maximum product integrity combined with durability and ease of operation, they are robustly constructed with models to suit a multitude of applications. Artemis GFR is designed for free-fall or gravity fed systems for powder or granular product applications. The TMDP and TMDC ranges are fully integrated systems designed for conveyor fed lines. Ideal for both packaged and unpackaged products they offer a wide range of different tunnel aperture sizes to suit the application. ATEX approved designs are also available. Eclipse Magnetics supply spares and servicing and offer site surveys to assess process line and HACCP policy.
Meeting multi-operational needs
LtoR: IIT directors George Ord and Tom Wilkinson with Jurgen Maier
Siemens MD joins Technology Company in north east Jurgen Maier, managing
director of Siemens UK and Ireland Industry Sector, is joining the board of Gateshead-based SHAPA member International Innovative Technologies Ltd (IIT). IIT employs a team of engineers specialising in the design, precision engineering and manufacture of a range of high output mills, classifiers and cyclones from a state-of-the-art factory in Team Valley. Jurgen Maier joins the company as a non-executive director to help with the international market and technology development of IIT’s products and new technologies. IIT is particularly involved in new engineering product design‚ process development and low energy manufacturing systems, which fits well with Jurgen’s long term support for UK manufacturing through his membership of the sector skills council SEMTA and the EEF.
To meet the multi-operational needs of today’s transport and logistics (T&L) industry, SHAPA member METTLER TOLEDO has designed a dimensioner with multi features that increase productivity, accuracy and security. Approved according to national and international standards, the CSN910 guarantees reliable results for use over tilt trays, crossbelts or any other type of sorting system. The CSN910 is an unattended, overhead data capture unit that automatically determines the length, width and height of items transported on a conveyor. It is designed for easy integration into package sorting depots, baggage handling terminals and warehouses. With embedded application software no external PC is needed, making the dimensioner compact and very cost effective. To improve space optimisation by accurate measurement, built-in software can measure irregular shapes in non legal for trade applications, detect oversized parcels and bags, classify non-measurable shapes for diverting and has side by side detection for improved package flow. It also has a firewall so that only authorised personnel and devices have access to the data
New Operator Protection with 5D Containment Screens SHAPA member Hosokawa
Micron Ltd, now offers innovative downflow booths featuring the very latest development of 5D Rigid Containment Screens which can offer powder handling operatives unprecedented Operator Exposure Levels as low as <1 g/m3, a result more routinely achieved in a glovebox or isolator. The new 5D screen offers movement up and down; back to front, side to side, tilt and pivot giving operators maximum operational movement. They are therefore able to carry out processing and packing tasks simply and effectively. Whilst the screens move easily, they may also be locked into set positions if required for safety reasons whilst undertaking specific tasks. When not in use the screens can be secured against the wall of the booth.
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