Bulk handling equipment and engineered systems
Bulk handling equipment and engineered systems
Flexicon specializes in the design and manufacture of bulk handling equipment and systems for transporting, discharging, filling, weighing, blending, and feeding a variety of powder and bulk solid materials. Their offerings range from individual equipment to comprehensive automated systems that manage materials from plant locations to packaging lines and storage vessels.
Flexicon equipment is capable of handling both free-flowing and non-free-flowing bulk products, including challenging materials. Solutions are available for abrasive, non-free-flowing, hazardous, moist, sticky, friable materials, and those prone to packing, caking, smearing, or plugging.
Flexicon provides engineered, integrated bulk handling systems that can incorporate equipment from other manufacturers. These systems are tailored to specific plant layouts and throughput rates, ensuring efficient and economical bulk handling.
These conveyors are designed to move virtually any bulk material, offering advantages such as enclosed tubes to prevent contamination, gentle product handling, and the ability to convey in any direction. They are known for high reliability, low maintenance, and ease of cleaning.
Flexicon offers pneumatic conveying systems suitable for a variety of bulk materials and capacities. These systems can be combined with flexible screw conveyors to maximize performance and return on investment.
Flexicon provides equipment for efficiently discharging and filling bulk bags, ensuring safe and dust-free operations.
These systems are designed for precise weighing and blending of bulk materials, ensuring consistent product quality.
Flexicon offers global engineering, testing, manufacturing, and field support to ensure the successful implementation and operation of their systems.
Flexicon offers a range of mechanical and pneumatic hopper accessories designed to enhance the flow of difficult materials. The hoppers feature dual agitators with interlocking paddles to de-agglomerate bulk material, promoting efficient charging of conveyor intake adapters. The high flow hopper design reduces material bridging, enhancing flow and reducing residual material.
Flexicon provides flexible screw conveyors available on mobile frames for easy in-plant mobility. These conveyors are equipped with dust collection hoods for manual dumping and are designed to fit in limited headroom areas. The BEV-CON™ flexible screw conveyors are suitable for handling a variety of materials, including those that pack, cake, or are fragile.
Flexicon's dilute phase pneumatic conveying systems are custom-engineered to handle a wide range of bulk materials. These systems can be configured for positive pressure or vacuum operation, each with specific advantages. Positive pressure systems are ideal for long-distance conveying, while vacuum systems are preferred for cleanliness and handling hazardous materials.
Materials are typically discharged from pneumatic systems via filter receivers or cyclone separators. Flexicon offers various discharge methods, including fill/pass valves and direct feeding into process vessels. The systems are designed to prevent contamination and ensure efficient material transfer.
Flexicon provides a comprehensive range of components for pneumatic systems, including pressure blowers, vacuum pumps, rotary airlock valves, and dust collectors. The systems are designed for easy integration into existing production environments and are available in various materials to meet industrial, food, dairy, and pharmaceutical standards.
The Model BFF Bulk Bag Discharger features several innovations to ensure dust-free loading and unloading of bulk bags. The SPOUT-LOCK™ clamp ring creates a sealed connection to prevent contamination, while the TELE-TUBE™ telescoping tube and FLOW-FLEXER™ bag activators promote material flow and prevent dead spots.
The bulk bag dischargers are available in carbon steel with industrial finishes or stainless steel for food, dairy, or pharmaceutical standards. They include features like the TELE-TUBE™ telescoping tube, SPOUT-LOCK™ clamp ring, and FLOW-FLEXER™ bag activators to ensure efficient material flow and total evacuation.
The document outlines the operation of various components such as the BAG-VAC™ dust collector, which creates negative pressure to collapse empty bags, and the POWER-CINCHER™ flow control valve for leak-proof retying of spouts. It also describes the use of iris valves for non-sealed connections.
The equipment is designed to meet industrial, food, dairy, and pharmaceutical standards, ensuring compliance with stringent hygiene and safety requirements.
For applications requiring absolute spillage containment, the document recommends using the double wall version of the TELE-TUBE™ telescoping tube. It also suggests using the SWING-DOWN™ filler for improved ergonomics and safety during bag connections.
The document highlights several key features, including high-integrity connection between bag outlet spout and discharger for a sealed system, optional BAG-VAC™ dust collector for total dust containment, multi-purpose intake chute for automatic and manual discharging, and Flexicon's TWIN-CENTREPOST™ and SWING-DOWN™ fillers for various capacity requirements.
Optional features include automated control systems, vibratory densification, and custom controls for integrated material feed systems. These enhancements aim to improve the efficiency and accuracy of the filling process.
Flexicon's bulk bag dischargers and fillers offer innovative solutions for handling bulk materials, focusing on safety, efficiency, and cleanliness. The document provides comprehensive information on the features and benefits of these systems, catering to a wide range of industrial applications.
Flexicon's manual dumping stations are designed to minimize dust and improve safety. They feature a dust collector with an automatic reverse-pulse filter cleaning system, ensuring continuous operation. The hoppers are available in different configurations to connect with various process equipment and are made from carbon or stainless steel.
Flexicon offers both lift-and-seal and open chute drum tippers. The lift-and-seal tippers provide a dust-tight seal for clean and efficient material transfer, while open chute tippers offer simplicity and ease of cleaning for applications where dust is not a concern. Both types accommodate various drum sizes and can connect to different process equipment.
These systems are designed for precise and efficient material handling, capable of moving bulk materials from any source to any destination. Flexicon offers gain-in-weight and loss-of-weight batching systems, which ensure accurate weighing and blending of ingredients. The systems can handle a wide range of materials, including free-flowing and non-free-flowing products.
Flexicon operates testing facilities worldwide to simulate customer equipment and verify performance. The company has a global presence with offices and manufacturing capabilities on four continents, providing comprehensive support and expertise in bulk handling solutions.
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CONTENTS Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3Materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Systems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Flexible Screw Conveyors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Flexible Screw Conveyors/BEV-CON. . . . 9 Pneumatic Conveying Systems. . . . . . . . . 10 Bulk Bag Dischargers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Bulk Bag Fillers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Bag Dump Stations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Drum Tippers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Weigh Batching & Blending Systems....
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Flexicon is a world leader in the design and manufacture of bulk handling equipment and custom-engineered and integrat- ed plant-wide systems that trans-port, discharge, fill, weigh, blend,deliver and/or feed a broad range of powder and bulk solidmaterials. Flexicon products range from individual equipment to automated systems that source bulk material from interior and exterior plant locations, transport it between process equipment and storage vessels, weigh it, blend it, feed it to packaging lines, extruders, moulding machines and storage vessels, and load it into railcars and trailers. Choose...
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You can alleviate the burden and risk of designing your system, coordinating multiple suppliers, integrating compo- nents, trouble-shooting start-up and assuming responsibility for system performance, by relying on Flexicon for it all.Flexicon can evaluate your bulk material(s), plant layout, throughput rates, residual product limitations, cleanliness, noise limitations, access, cost, cycle times and other parame- ters, and outline the solution to your bulk handling problem.Because Flexicon offers a widerange of equipment, including mechanical and pneumatic con- veyors, as well as systems that...
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High reliability,low maintenance Economical to purchase,install and operate Volumetric feeding conveyors Flexible screw pioneer Fast, thorough cleaning Perhaps no other manufacturerhas advanced the application of the flexible screw conveyor as far and as fast as Flexicon the first to introduce 115 mm, 150 mm, and 200 mm diameter screw/tube combinations that elevated the capacity of this category of conveyor more than 10-fold in an 8-year period. After more than 10,000 installationsworldwide involving a gamut ofbulk materials, Flexicon has amassed a wealth of perform- ance data on flexible screwsח...
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Mobile and custom configurations Multiple discharge point systems All Flexicon flexible screw conveyors are available on castor-mounted frames with conveyor support masts for in-plant mobility, reducing the need for multiple stationary units.Both mobile and stationary units are readily customised using interchangeable screws, conveyor tubes, motor drives, hoppers, flow-promotion devices, sensors, controllers, and other components to satisfy the most diverse and demanding end- use requirements. Horizontally-oriented Flexiconflexible screw conveyors can feed multiple packaging machines, moulding...
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Versatile configurations conform to your application > BEV-CON BEV-CONٙ flexible screw conveyors from Flexicon handle powder and bulk solids including materials that tend to pack, cake, smear, plug, fluidise or separate.BEV-CON > TM units have a straightconveyor tube which is generally supported by attaching the drive/ discharge end to an over-headjoist, tank rim or any other solidstructure.The conveyor tube may be routed through small openings in walls or ceilings. BEV-CON > Moist, sticky materialsFriable materials TM conveyors are alsohighly effective for handling fragile or brittle products...
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Vacuum systems Vacuum dilute phase pneumaticconveying systems are generally employed for transporting mate- rial from multiple sources such as storage vessels, process equipment, trucks and rail cars, to individual or multiple destina- tions. Unlike positive pressure systems, vacuum systems allow easy pick-up of materials from open containers using wands, and do not impart heat to the material. Since vacuum systems offer superior leak containment, they are often specified on the basis of cleanliness, particu- larly when handling hazardousmaterials.Negative pressure is created by a positive displacement...
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Wide capacity range With a Flexicon pneumatic con-veyor, capacity can range from several kilograms to tens of tonnes per hour, feeding any des- tination from small packaging lines to silos and railcars. Moreover, excessive fluctuationsin the feed rateresulting inoverloading or underloadingח will not damage the system. Diversity of products handled by one conveyor Powders having wide rangingbulk densities, as well as flakes, pellets, capsules, tablets and other friable materials, can behandled by a single Flexiconpneumatic conveyor, providing the flexibility needed to transport multiple ingredients....
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Filter Receivers(Pressure and vacuum systems) Rotary Airlock Valves with Flow- Through Pick-Up Adapters (Pressure and vacuum systems) Rotary airlock valves with flow-through pick-up adapters can be utilised in pressure and vacuum systems for both controlled meter- ing of material into the conveying system, and maintaining the pressure differential between the conveying system and ambient atmosphere. Flexicon filter receivers separatesolids from the air stream using filter media and gravity, and are generally specified when materials contain smaller particles that are prone to dusting and/or when...
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Mobile and custom configurations Self-contained Flexicon pneumatic conveying systems complete with feed hopper and/or pick-up wand, blower unit, filter receiver and control package, are available pre-engineered and configured on castor-mounted frames for in-plant mobility. Designed, constructed andfinished to industrial, food, dairy and pharmaceutical standards Flexicon pneumatic conveyingsystems are available in carbon steel with durable industrial finishes, or stainless steel finished to standards required for industrial, food, dairy andpharmaceutical applications. Available upgrades include...
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