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High Efficiency Drying or Cooling of Bulk Solids
The Bella dryer/cooler offers thermal efficiencies to 80 percent or better because air flows around material while it is suspended in the weightless zone. The result is a more consistent material.
Precia-Molen Launch New Belt Scale at PlantWorx
Weighing specialists Precia-Molen will launch a new belt scale model at Plantworx. The MCS totalizing scale represents new levels of weighing accuracy and is designed to be installed on all mobile plant with belt widths from 400 mm and belt speeds from 0.3 to 5 m/s. The MCS is compatible with Precia-Molen’s I400 range of throughput instruments and can be configured to communicate to a wide range of software protocols including Profibus as standard. Also on display will be Precia-Molen’s mobile ready mix concrete plant calibration system which delivers high accuracy to QSRMC with minimum costs and plant downtime. Precia-Molen are exhibiting on stand number GRV11. Tel: 01527 590320 Email:
sales@preciamolen.co.uk www.preciamolen.co.uk
COA works with BSI on new standard for flexitanks
The use of flexitanks for transporting bulk liquids inside freight containers has increased significantly over the last ten years, from an estimated 40,000 shipments a year in 2002, to a projected 500,000 shipments in 2014.
In order to improve the quality of flexitanks, the Container Owners Association (COA) has commissioned BSI to develop a new standard, designated PAS 1008, for manufacture and testing of this type of equipment. BSI is the UK’s National Standards Body and the PAS launch is expected later this year.
Flexitanks offer financial and environmental benefits to businesses and usage has grown significantly across many industries. The wine industry, for example, was an early adopter of flexitanks, taking advantage of the savings realised through reduced weight compared to traditional glass and plastic bottles, as well as a higher volume of liquid that can be transported using a flexitank rather than bottles. In 2009, the COA drew up a recommended Code of Practice to help improve standards in the manufacture and operation of flexitanks. Following requests from its members for an industry-wide standard, the COA embarked with BSI upon the project to develop a more clearly defined testing and manufacturing specification. The new PAS 1008, entitled ‘Specification for the manufacturing process and testing of flexitanks’, is designed to enable manufacturers of flexitanks to certify their products. It addresses the testing of materials, performance and labelling, as well as including a test method for determining the flexitank’s resistance to impact when installed in a freight container. COA flexitank members who are sponsoring the project include:
Braid Logistics, Cointra, Environmental Packaging Technologies, Flexpack LSM, Full-Pak, Liquatrans Industrial Packaging, PacTec, Philton Polythene Converters, Qingdao Laf, BLT Flexitank Industrial Ltd, Sunderson – Sun Logistics and Trans Ocean Distribution. Email:
secretary@containerownersassociation.org Tel: +44 (0) 20 8390 0000.
Tuf-Lok ring grip pipe and tube couplings are rugged, heavy duty, self-aligning and self-grounded couplings with a high end pull. They can be used for almost any application where pipe or tube ends need to be connected. The Tuf-Lok self-aligning couplings install quickly and easily with little effort.
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Tuf-Lok (UK) Tel: +44 (0) 1706 822512
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