MACHINERY | MATERIALS HANDLING
Ergomec joins Italy’s Plastic Systems group
Industrial plant specialist Ergomec, based near Verona, Italy, last year became part of the Plastic Systems group. The company, which designs and builds pneumatic bulk material conveying systems for powders and granules, complements its new owner’s capabilities in process automation and plastics ancillary equip- ment. Ergomec joins Plastic Systems and three other companies within holding company Pegaso Industries. “The Pegaso brand is now one of the global leaders of the sector, and we are not only the youngest of these, but also the only one that boasts diversified production, and can thus serve both large industrial groups and average-sized processing industries”, says President Rinaldo Piva. Aside from Plastic Systems and Ergomec, other companies
within Pegaso include Blauwer (founded four years ago to produce refrigeration systems, heat pumps and temperature control units), PET Solutions (packaging plant) and Steelsystems (steel technologies). �
www.pegasoindustries.com
take its latest feeding, conveying and system components direct to the customer. First visits commenced in October and the display items included a twin screw feeder, Smart Weigh Belt feeder, a Bulk Solids Pump feeder, and a range of diverter and rotary valves. In Belgium, J-Tec Material Handling, which specialises in conveying systems as well as mixing and product characteristic determination, offers its laboratory for carrying out all sorts of testing, including pneumatic and mechanical conveying, sieving, mixing, dosing, dedusting, dissolving of solids into liquids, and more. Equipment is avail- able for discharging bags, bulk bags and contain- ers. Pneumatic conveying can be tested over a distance of up to 450m. The test facility offers the possibility for dosing of bulk materials, gravimetric and volumetric, batch and continuous, with LIW feeders or J-Tec’s patented dosing valves. There is also a deduster with a capacity of about 1 tonne/h capable of maintaining a final dust content of no more than 20 ppm.
Conveying trials The Zeppelin Systems’ test plant in Frie- drichshafen, Germany, is used for performing conveying tests with bulk solids that are processed in various industries. Pneumatic conveying tests, either dense phase or dilute phase and with or without additional bypass systems, can be carried
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out with various conveying pipe diameters and over conveying distances up to 460m and at capacities up to 150t/h. All related components, such as pressure vessel conveyors, rotary feeders, suction hopper loaders, metering units, diverter valves, filters, elutriators or screeners, are available in different sizes and can be tested. In addition, special test set-ups for hydraulic conveying, for fines generation tests and for filter tests are installed. For tests relating to silo technology, Zeppelin has a variety of gravity blenders and fluidised bed blenders with volumes ranging from 3 to 35m3
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powders and pellets, as well as silos equipped with a range of discharge aids and a degassing system including the capability to heat or cool the bulk solids.
Flow research The Wolfson Centre for Bulk Solids Handling Technology in Chatham in the UK specialises in all aspects of flow, handling and processing of powders and bulk materials. A plant that extends over 450m² includes just about everything that is found in a real processing and logistics chain, the centre says, including pneumatic conveyors with pipelines of various sizes, belt and mechanical conveyors, hoppers and silos, blenders and feeders of various types, continuing through size reduction and into environmental test facilities and control systems. Many of the tests and models have been developed exclusively at the Wolfson Centre, which is part of the University of Greenwich. The pilot plant is used extensively for assessing
if new or reformulated materials will go through existing systems and, if not, what changes will be needed to accommodate them, setting up short production runs to test formulation and manufac- turing proposals, and testing proposed new handling systems. The laboratories are available to anyone in the bulk solids industry either to test their own materials using the centre’s equipment, under supervision, or to provide samples to allow the centre to carry out the testing on their behalf.
CLICK ON THE LINKS FOR MORE INFORMATION: �
www.moretto.com �
www.motan-colortronic.com �
www.coperion.com �
www.bronkhorst.com �
https://processengineering.katoennatie.com/ (J-Tec Materials Handling)
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www.zeppelin-systems.com �
http://www.gre.ac.uk/engsci/research/ groups/wolfsoncentre/home (Wolfson Centre)
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