Food ingredients are the leading cause of explosions, and containing those events no longer is enough.

Machine-builder and material supplier collaboration expands options in high-speed applications.

Our editors selected the following equipment products to feature in our July 2018 issue of Food Processing. See which products they chose.

See which equipment Food Processing’s editors hand-picked to highlight for this month’s issue of Food Processing magazine.

See which equipment products our editors hand-picked to highlight for the March issue of Food Processing magazine.

Our editors selected the following equipment to feature in our April 2018 issue of Food Processing. See which products they chose.

Our editors selected the following equipment to feature in our May 2018 issue of Food Processing. See which products they chose.

Efficiency is important, but the potential dangers posed by combustible dust need to be addressed up front.

Explosions, metal contamination and balky handling are some of the problems that powders can bring to a food plant.

Category: Equipment

Product Type: Powders & solids

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Product Type: Form/fill/seal

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Product Type: Sanitation & hygiene

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Product Type: Conveying equipment

The stainless steel conditioner features two hydraulic rams with specially-contoured end plates that press opposite sides of bulk bags.

Category: Equipment

Product Type: Powders & solids

Flexicon's sanitary system consists of a bulk bag unloading frame, two hoppers, and two flexible screw conveyors that feed a central gain-in-weight hopper under automated control.

Category: Equipment

Product Type: Weighing/checkweighing

The Open Chute Box Dumper hydraulically tips boxes at 45 or 60 degrees beyond horizontal, allowing safe, complete discharge of free- and non-free-flowing bulk material.

Category: Equipment

Product Type: Material handling

Flexicon's Bulk Conveyor with Tilt-Down Portable Base fits through tight spaces and provides easy access for removal of the flexible screw.

Category: Equipment

Product Type: Conveying equipment

Flexicon's Self-contained Drum Dump Feeder discharges bulk material from drums and feeds it volumetrically to downstream equipment.

Category: Equipment

Product Type: Material handling

A new Tip-Tite High-Lift Box/Container Dumper from Flexicon discharges dust-free into vessels 6 to 10 ft above the plant floor.

Category: Equipment

Product Type: Material handling

Flexicon's low-cost, low-profile, Single-Trip Bulk Bag Unloader pierces bottom of single-use bags rapidly, and conveys material to downstream processing, storage or packaging equipment.

Category: Equipment

Product Type: Conveying equipment

Flexicon's self-contained Drum Dump Feeder discharges bulk material from drums and feeds it volumetrically to downstream equipment.

Category: Equipment

Product Type: Material handling

Flexicon's system batch manufacturing system can accommodate up to seven major ingredients and unlimited minor ingredients which can be weigh batched simultaneously, check-weighed, and conveyed mechanically and pneumatically for delivery through a filter receiver to a blender that feeds a bulk ...

Category: Equipment

Product Type: Automation & control systems

Flexicon's Bulk Bag Discharger transfers material from bulk bags into bulk storage vessels at locations unable to receive the material by rail or bulk truck.

Category: Equipment

Product Type: Material handling

Flexicon's Bulk Bag Filling Line is a 15-pallet dispenser that automatically dispenses pallets, fills bulk bags, and accumulates filled bags for removal by forklift.

Category: Equipment

Product Type: Material handling

Flexicon's new Bag Dump System collects dust generated during manual dumping and compaction of bags, and conveys bulk material downstream.

Category: Equipment

Product Type: Material handling