Powder and Bulk Solids Case Studies

Two Piab piFLOW f vacuum conveyors took over the transfer of corn-seed coating powder at Bayer Hungaria's Nagyigmánd plant, replacing manual movement of 25 kg bags to equipment 20 m above floor level.

Piab reports a requested rate of 350 kg/h and a maximum achieved rate of 440 kg/h after commissioning.

Repco replaced the bucket elevator between its mixer and packaging line with a Coperion K-Tron Omniveyor dense-phase pressure-vessel system.

Full-scale trials at the Bulk Solids Innovation Center, operated with Kansas State University, showed that representative premix blends transfer without the segregation the old process caused.

Coperion K-Tron built two mobile batch-feeding stations for Johnson Matthey.

Each unit docks for vacuum refill, then moves between mixers, so one feeder serves several process points.

Solukon’s SFM-PCU collects recovered metal powder after automated depowdering.

An integrated vacuum conveyor draws the powder from a sensor-monitored pickup point through a hose into a level-monitored 50 L container, creating a closed handoff toward recycling.

Pfizer’s HighCon facility in Freiburg is a highly automated, high-containment oral-solid-dose plant that connects powder handling, production and packaging.

Pfizer reported an investment of almost €300 million and up to seven billion additional tablets and capsules per year when the plant opened in May 2022.