Why you should invest in a high quality Bag Slitting Machine
Imagine taking six minutes just to open one bag of powder raw material—while inhaling dust and wasting labor. Multiply that by hundreds of bags a day, and it’s easy to see how inefficiencies stack up. For businesses handling powdered or granulated materials, the choice is clear: automation. Scorpio’s high-quality Bag Slitting Machine is revolutionizing production floors across […]
Remote control your Bulk Handling System
Your pneumatic conveying system is the backbone of bulk material handling, quietly transporting raw material powders with minimal maintenance. But that’s precisely the problem—because it requires so little attention, it often gets neglected until something goes wrong. And when it does, the result is costly downtime, panicked engineers, and missed production targets. Enter R-STAR: The […]
Why I went on a tour of the Budweiser factory even though I don’t drink. (they gave us lemonade)
On our penultimate day in New Hampshire, pelting rain spoiled our plans to visit Boston. And so, our dear friend and fellow chemical engineer suggested we join a tour of the Budweiser factory! We couldn’t wait! I love visiting factories to see how things are manufactured. Somehow, watching something being produced from basic raw materials, […]
The 5 secrets to achieving dust-free powder handling with lowest energy and highest output
Step I: Identify Material Properties Understanding the properties of the bulk material is critical for choosing the right equipment. These include: The starting point for equipment and system selection is listing of product properties and the greater the detail, the closer the plant engineer is to selecting an optimum system or equipment for his application. […]
BULKAHOLICS ANONYMOUS- WITH APOLOGIES TO REINHARD WOHLBIER OF BULK-ONLINE
From bulk material handling to substack publishing is a long way to go for someone who knows only engineering drawings and silo hammer rash. But one has to keep up and become digitally savvy…
POWDER, PELLET, FLAKE, GRANULE: Which are you handling?
Bulkagram 2, April 14 Powder, pellet, flake, granule, nugget, particle, bean, grain….. As you sit in your office, walk down your shopfloor or banter with friends in a coffee shop, how much of these shapes influence your life? Here’s a teeny weeny look: Coffee in the morning, powder from beans to pep your day up. A hurried […]
NEED TO REDUCE CAPEX? Optimise plant layout in your in-plant bulk handling
Automated handling of your incoming bulk raw materials in bags or bulk goes a long way in improving the efficiency of your operations as well as the quality of your end product
THE CURIOUS CASE OF WHITE CROWS IN MAHARASHTRA
Powders are tough to tackle. Work from fundamentals.
PHASEBOOK: Dense or Dilute?
Calculating Material to Air ratios or Choosing the right mode of conveying is no child’s play!
THE ‘EX’-PENSE OF POWDER HANDLING
Not Just Capex and Opex: Add Envex and Safex too!