Firing Industries Ltd. carries ample processing equipment by Kason Corporation, including the unique VIBRO-BED fluid bed processor. Recently upgraded by the Kason team with lighter materials and fewer welded seams, this compact, cost-saving solution helps businesses to reduce cleaning, production downtime, and maintenance expenses significantly. The VIBRO-BED is built for easy installation and packs a high-end punch when it comes to drying, cooling, and moisturizing applications for bulk foods, pharmaceuticals, and chemicals.

With compact circular design

What sets the VIBRO-BED apart from typical rectangular fluid bed processors is its compact circular design. This saves more on energy and maintenance costs while achieving higher product consistency. The energy efficiency of this design speeds up drying time by using the entire surface area, which maximizes airflow and leads to less waste and a more consistent product.

The lighter materials and fewer welded seams result in less cleaning time and maintenance costs, while the user-friendly, intuitive, programmable digital controls monitor humidity, pressure, temperature, and airflow to simplify the operation and allow offsite troubleshooting. The VIBRO-BED also saves floor space. Users get fast, cost-effective installation and conserve valuable space with seven compact models, ranging from 610 to 2,125 millimetres in diameter.

The VIBRO-BED has inherently strong and light construction that allows the Kason team to build it more quickly and finish it as per sanitary standards. This way, users get better lead times and easier installation for operations, either batch or continuous, seeking to dry, cool, or moisturize bulk food, pharmaceuticals, or chemicals. Kason provides free testing of any application in a VIBRO-BED unit at its Iowa facility, so customers can test their processes in the manufacturer’s house equipment to help them get the most out of their operations, while getting quality analysis to demonstrate how dependable the device is.

Ideal for drying, cooling, scalping, agglomerating, moisturizing, de-dusting, or de-agglomerating applications, the VIBRO-BED processor is stronger, lighter, and more efficient than competing equipment is. Firing Industries offers many other innovative Kason processing solutions too, like screeners, powder-handling equipment, mixers, and sifters.

To learn more, contact Firing Industries’ application-sales engineers at ddubuc@firing.com or (877) 688-0974.

Firing Industries Ltd. carries the full line of piab piFLOW® vacuum conveyors. The latest innovation is the Batch Volume Optimization (BVO) series, developed to handle bulk solids with a broader adaptation of automation. This leads to higher productivity levels in manufacturing operations, particularly in food processing, chemicals, and pharmaceuticals.

Because vacuum conveying solutions for powder, granules, and small particles should be efficient, sustainable, and easy to adapt, piab has created the BVO series to evolve manufacturing workplaces.

Better product hygiene, worker safety

The automation level in these sectors is quickly evolving as new solutions are adapted globally. The advantages of automation, like better product hygiene and worker safety, are increasing this acceptance. Manufacturers are reevaluating their processes due to heightened customer expectations and legislative regulations, but some are still not investing in automation; many facilities have separate automation silos with process steps that are not fully connected.

A common concern is that some organizations do not accept new technologies, because of a high fluctuation rate and the scarcity of skilled, competent operators or technicians. So all new equipment must be extremely user-friendly, to reduce worker onboarding time and the chances of human error. piab has taken all these factors into consideration when developing the piFLOW® BVO line, which is easy to maintain, complies with industry standards, and boosts productivity.

Each of these conveyors from Firing Industries takes solids from a pickup point and releases them in batches into a vessel or other equipment. A level sensor automatically triggers the release processes when the conveyor is filled by every cycle, so users can set the conveyor up quickly. The automatic level sensing enhances employee safety, which protects equipment from extra maintenance shutdowns.

A genuine pioneer in user-friendly solutions, piab has plentiful experience in evolving industrial processes. The piFLOW® BVO series represents a medium automation level in its product range. For a closer look at this new product line, check out the video below:

To learn more, contact Firing Industries’ application-sales engineers at ddubuc@firing.com or (877) 688-0974.

The Vibroscreen Model K30-1-SS 76-centimetre gap-free sanitary screener by Kason

Firing Industries Ltd. recently began carrying processing solutions by Kason Corporation – including the Vibroscreen Model K30-1-SS 76-centimetre gap-free sanitary screener. This device features sanitary stainless steel construction, gap-free screen frames with quick-disconnect clamps, flexible quick-action connectors at the inlet and outlet, a Clamshell lid, and other features.

A key advantage of this screener is that it meets the strict standards of the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA), plus cGMP, 3-A, and USDA standards.

Fast disassembly and cleaning

The Model K30-1-SS has a removable sanitary magnet at the discharge spout, and the external, interlocking flange configuration of each screen frame envelops the support ring of the screen, so the screen’s wire mesh extends to the frame’s interior walls. The design eliminates the gap between screen ring and frame wall, which lowers the chances of contamination from bacteria growth and boosts sanitizing efficiency. This makes the screener ideal for pharmaceutical, food-processing, and dairy use and other applications with a risk of cross-contamination.

Screens are mounted to support rings with FDA-approved epoxy and sealed with FDA-approved gasket material. They are available from Firing Industries with mesh-tolerance certificates. The wire-mesh screening material comes in 304, 316, and “magnetic” 400-series stainless steel; if this steel is broken, it can be captured along with ferrous material contaminants by a sanitary high-strength magnet at the discharge outlet.

Due to the Clamshell design, gas pistons can hold and raise the upper frame in the open position, providing easy access for rapid screen changes and thorough wash-down of all interior surfaces. This lowers downtime while allowing one user to perform what was formerly a two-person task, depending on screen diameter. The flexible connectors with sanitary BFM fittings snap into place inside the spigot rims of the material inlet and discharge spouts, enabling fast disassembly and cleaning.

Kason builds this screener with continuous weld seams and material contact surfaces polished to a sanitary finish and with a four-post open base with a stainless steel motor enclosure, which allows wash-down of the underside and plant floor.

To learn more, contact Firing Industries’ application-sales engineers at ddubuc@firing.com or (877) 688-0974.

One of many great Kason solutions available.

Kason Corporation is a leading manufacturer of industrial screening and processing equipment, and its innovative products recently became available in Canada via Firing Industries Ltd. This includes a selection of processing solutions for the chemical sector. For more than half a century, Kason’s cost-efficient, high-performance chemical processing equipment has worked for a broad variety of applications, such as screening plastic pellets, dewatering polymer beads, de-lumping dry powdered agricultural products, and drying granular chemicals.

Reliable and consistent equipment

Chemical-manufacturing businesses around the world benefit from the Kason portfolio of processing solutions, including industry-leading screening and sieving equipment that ensures high-quality, consistent processing of a wide range of chemical powders and fluids. The manufacturer offers both screening and sieving devices in standard models or can fully customize equipment to meet specific spatial, product, or processing needs.

Understanding the importance of reliability and consistency, the Kason team makes equipment that can handle even the most demanding tasks. All of these models are built with 304 and 316 stainless steel with sanitary options, and a variety of finishes are available for specific chemical and biochemical applications. Among the common tasks for which Kason equipment is used: industrial inorganic chemicals; plastic material and synthetics; soap, cleaners, and toilet goods; paint products; industrial organic chemicals; and agricultural chemicals.

Firing Industries carries such powerful Kason options as lump breakers, cone mills, Flo-Thru low-profile screeners, and standard single- and multi-deck screeners. Lump breakers and cone mills are cost-efficient solutions that help to ensure the highest-quality processing. Kason also makes size-reduction equipment designed for de-agglomeration, pre-milling, and coarse grinding tasks. Materials that these devices handle include adhesives, agchem, ascorbic acid, biochemicals, bleach, detergents, fungicide, gasoline, insecticides, nylon, paint, plastics, and PVC.

Kason’s VIBROSCREEN circular vibratory screeners and CENTRI-SIFTER centrifugal sifters and separators can sift, classify, scalp, or dewater bulk solids and slurries at any processing stage. Users can integrate all Kason equipment into existing systems or use them as standalone solutions. Their user-friendly design ensures fast cleaning and maintenance, and all models have quick-change screen options.

To learn more, contact Firing Industries’ application-sales engineers at ddubuc@firing.com or (877) 688-0974.

Auburn FilterSense solutions help prevent excess emissions and process problems by providing reliable low-level particulate monitoring, early warning leak detection, better control, and real-time diagnostics of filtration systems. Auburn FilterSense uniquely focuses product technology on proactive and preventive solutions.

Firing Industries Ltd. is Canada’s source for processing solutions by piab, including the new piFLOW®p SMART Conveying Cycle Optimizer (CCO). This semi-automated premium vacuum conveyor moves more material at once, with ample saving on energy costs. The piFLOW®p SMART CCO focuses on the requirements of continuous operations while enabling direct pickup of materials from such sources as bag dump stations or barrels.

Maximum use of system capacity

This device needs fewer cycles to convey a product to packaging, sieving, milling, or dosing. piab has designed the piFLOW®p SMART CCO to optimize the process by maximizing the use of the system capacity with every conveying cycle. The dual-sensor solution allows the unit to use the whole conveyor batch volume in every cycle; the operator needs to set only one parameter, such as the carrying valve, while the conveyor adapts all other settings accordingly.

The top sensor of the piFLOW®p SMART CCO provides protection from material overfill. When the user shuts down the conveying cycle before material reaches the filter, this minimizes the risk of filter breakage, which lowers downtime and replacement expenses. The filter has a long lifespan, partly because a shock of compressed air cleans it during the discharge phase of the conveying cycle.

Ease of use is another major benefit of this conveyor. The piFLOW®p SMART CCO is as easy to operate as a screw conveyor is, even for a less skilled worker. The operator needs only to set the carrying air, since the instrument adjusts the suction and discharge times automatically to the material flow, which relieves the user from controlling three parameters and spending several cycles on fine-tuning the process to boost the performance.

Other features of this vacuum conveyor from Firing Industries:

• external level sensors, for measuring material quantity in the equipment feeding (or being fed by) the device
• ability to upgrade to the full auto-tuning system within ten minutes, by adding a feed adapter and air-carrying unit
• acid-resistant ASTM 316L stainless steel construction
• compliance with international quality standards

To learn more, contact Firing Industries’ application-sales engineers at ddubuc@firing.com or (877) 688-0974.

Hosokawa Micron makes equipment that makes dishwasher powder more effective.

Firing Industries Ltd. supplies Hosokawa Micron powder-handling equipment; these products are common choices in the food-processing and pharmaceutical sectors. The manufacturer also offers solutions for the production of dishwasher detergent powder, which poses a challenge for comminution technology. Dish-washing powder processed through Hosokawa Micron products has higher cleaning performance, which leads to better user satisfaction, as this equipment enables additive-free compacting and gentle granulation for superior results.

Surface reduction for less agglomeration

In the manufacture of dish-washing powder, humidity in the air often causes unwanted agglomerates to form during production. This results in detergent that is less effective in cleaning dishes than it should be, which motivates customers to switch to competing products. But many tests have demonstrated that surface reduction lowers powder agglomeration. So granules should have a narrow particle-size distribution in the production of detergent powder for top results. Hosokawa Micron solutions can achieve this.

To get optimal particle-size distribution in the production of dishwasher detergent, the product must pass through three different process stages – compacting, granulation, and subsequent classification. Hosokawa Micron compactors and flake crushers, available from Firing Industries, are ideal for these stages. The first process stage, compaction, involves compression of the raw powder to the required density through press agglomeration; next up comes granulation, which crushes the pellets gently. Finally, the user separates the powder granules into the desired particle classes. The final result is a dishwasher detergent with a higher washing efficiency.

Among the advantages of this process: dust-free, easy-flowing granules; no binders required; easier operation and cleaning; a high degree of automation; efficient explosion-protection concepts; and lower investment expenses.

Hosokawa Micron makes two devices that are perfect for this application: the Series ARC compactor and the AFC flake crusher. Available in two models, the MS and CS, the ARC series of compactors is designed especially for the chemical and mineral industries. The AFC flake crusher gently crushes easily broken material; the device strains material through a screen with a horizontal rotor, which operates in an oscillating or rotating manner.

To learn more, contact Firing Industries’ application-sales engineers at ddubuc@firing.com or (877) 688-0974.Report this

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Status is onlineDanielle DubucBusiness Operations and Marketing at FIRING INDUSTRIES LTD.