CPM acquires the assets of Lauhoff Corp.

Waterloo, IA -- CPM, the world’s leading process design and equipment provider for the oilseed, animal feed, biofuel, and cereal industries, announces the acquisition of certain Lauhoff Corporation assets including all intellectual properties for rotary pressure cookers, flakers, stem crushers and ancillary equipment.

These assets, formerly part of the Lauhoff Corporation of Detroit, MI, will be combined with CPM’s Wolverine Proctor division.

“This acquisition represents significant and complementary product line additions for the Wolverine Proctor division,” said Paul Smith, vice president of sales and marketing.

“We look forward to serving the existing Lauhoff customers, many of whom are already long-time customers of CPM’s Wolverine Proctor, Century Extrusion and Roskamp Champion divisions.”

The acquisition enables Wolverine Proctor to serve traditional cereal processors in turn-key fashion through global sales and product support channels out of its Horsham, PA, and Glasgow, United Kingdom, sales and service centers. Wolverine Proctor will assume engineering, production, and after-market service functions for all Lauhoff products.

CPM’s business units include Crown Iron Works, California Pellet Mill, Roskamp Champion, Beta Raven, Century Extrusion, Greenbank Technology and Wolverine Proctor. CPM has more than 1,000 employees and production facilities in the Americas, Europe and Asia.

Source: http://www.cpmroskamp.com/

Clyde Processing Wins £1M Pet Food Factory Order

Doncaster, United Kingdom -- Processing group Clyde Processing Solutions has won a £1M order from a leading US food company.  Clyde said its US operating subsidiary Mac Equipment will supply systems to transport flour in a pet food plant on the east coast of the US.

Clyde will install two extra processing lines, and the food firm plans to be able to operate these by the end of the year.

Clyde chief executive Alex Stewart said, "Mac's proven experience and expertise in transporting raw materials in a reliable, continuous, energy efficient manner for the food industry was instrumental in winning this contract. The order is in line with management expectations and has been secured at normal levels of contribution.

"The food industry, particularly in North America, has remained buoyant for our group during these challenging economic trading conditions. We have, as a group, focused our efforts in generating significant customer contact across all our key markets, which has created a solid sales pipeline of opportunities which we are working tirelessly to close over the coming months."

Clyde Process Solutions PLC specializes in developing pneumatic conveying systems, which are an energy efficient and environmentally sustainable alternative to mechanical technologies. Pneumatic conveying solutions utilize controlled streams of air to move granular or particle-based bulk materials through various stages of a production process at a controlled rate of flow.

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Taim Weser awarded refinery expansion contract

Cartagena, Spain -- Taim Weser will be responsible for designing, manufacturing and supplying two stockyard machinery facilities and a crane for the project to expand the Repsol YPF Cartagena Refinery. The oil company will invest more than Euro3,200 million in this project, which will double the refinery’s current production and turn it into one of the most modern plants with the greatest conversion capacity in the world.

Repsol YPF opted to use Taim Weser as its supplier in the project to expand the refinery that the company owns in Valle de Escombreras, Cartagena, Murcia. At its Bulk Material Handling business unit, the company from Aragón will be responsible for designing, manufacturing and supplying two complete storage plants, one petroleum coke and the other sulphur.

Both facilities will include stockpiling machinery, gantry cranes and truck loading bays. As part of the same project, Repsol YPF has also chosen the Taim Weser Cranes business unit to supply a semi-portal grab crane to handle pet coke at the refinery. This crane, which will supply the petroleum coke storage and conveying circuit, will have a SWL of 33 tons, 40 m span and 500 t/h production capacity.

The Spanish-Argentine company’s total investment in this project will be more than 3,200 million Euros, the largest industrial investment ever made in the history of Spain. It will double the refinery’s production rate to 11 million tons a year, which is equivalent to 220,000 barrels a day. Apart from increasing oil distillation and conversion capacity, the project, which is expected to come into operation in 2011, aims to adapt the plant to production of clean transportation fuels, encourage the use of biodiesel and consequently improve energy efficiency, safety and environmental impact.

Taim Weser’s contribution to the Cartagena refinery expansion will consist of two complete storage facilities with the necessary machinery. The first one, for petroleum coke storage, transports the raw material produced in the drums and temporarily stores it in storage piles to later be taken to the port facilities.

In this case, Taim Weser’s supply will include the petroleum coke crushing, transport, stockpiling, reclaiming, storage and truck loading operations. Grain size will range between 0 and 88 mm, density will be 0.72 t/m3 and stockpiling and reclaiming capacities will be 500 and 600 t/h, respectively.

The process starts at a hopper where the petroleum coke is offloaded onto the shovel and the material is extracted using a feeder breaker that crushes the petroleum coke down to 80 mm. Next, the crusher discharges onto a belt conveyor system, the first in a series of conveyor systems that will take the pet coke to the stockyard. The last of these conveyors feeds a luffing stacker unloading the pet coke into a 75,000 T longitudinal stockpile.

The stockpiled pet coke is collected by a portal scraper reclaimer, which unloads it onto a belt conveyor system. Afterwards, a series of conveyor systems take the material to five temporary storage silos equipped with an automatic truck loading bay, fed by shut-off valves, some telescopic unloading devices and a truck weigh bridge. These loading stations also include a dust suppression system.

The sulphur storage facility transports the solid particles generated during the solidification process at the plant and temporarily stores them in storage piles to be taken later to the port facilities. This operation also includes crushing, transport, stockpiling, reclaiming, storage and truck loading. In this case grain size is 2 to 3 mm, density 1.04 t/m3, and stacking and reclaiming capacities are 40 and 500 t/h respectively.

The procedure is similar to above: the handling system collects the material from the sulphur pelletizing plant using a belt conveyor system and then a series of conveyor systems take it to the stockyard. The last conveyor feeds the longitudinal stockpile using a stacker and unloads the sulphur into the 30,000-ton stockyard.

The stockpiled sulphur is collected by a portal scraper reclaimer which unloads it onto a belt conveyor system, and then a series of conveyor systems take it to four temporary storage silos for the truck loading process. Each of these silos includes an automatic truck transfer and loading station fitted with a dust suppression system and shut-off valves, some telescopic unloading devices and a truck weigh bridge.

Source: http://www.taimweser.com/

New high level output miniature Load Cell

Amherst, NY -- Stellar Technology Inc. has combined its innovative electronics and proven sensor technology to introduce a new miniature load cell with internal signal conditioning.

This unique product, the Series MIN840, is a 0.15% accuracy force sensor that measures both tension and compression forces with either high level analog output or digital output. Standard high level analog outputs are 4-20 mA, 0-5 Vdc, and 0-10 Vdc. Standard digital outputs are S232, RS485, CANbus (J-1939 and CANopen).

The Model MIN840 is all-weld stainless steel construction and is available in standard ranges from 250 lbf. to 5000 lbf. Custom designed configurations and special ranges are also offered.

In addition, Stellar Technology offers many more load cell configurations with both mV/V and high level analog and digital outputs. STI welcomes you to review their comprehensive offering of load cells, force sensors, pressure transducers and transmitters, and temperature transducers.

Source: http://www.stellartech.com/

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