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EAST HANOVER, NJ Vanilla beans from Madagascar, cinnamon bark from Sri Lanka, ginger roots from Nigeria and many other natural flavors you enjoy have likely come from Givaudan Flavors Corp. which extracts flavor from natural products, concentrates it, packages and markets it to food and beverage manufacturers.

Givaudan processes natural ingredients on a mass scale, placing high demands on its size reduction equipment, grinding upwards of 6000 lb (2700 kg) per hour of ginger root, cass

To increase production of concrete mixes containing coal fired power generation plant ash products, Charah Inc. opened a new manufacturing plant in Emporia, VA, which also serves as a warehouse and distribution center for other concrete industry products. Profit margins are slim in this high volume business, so management placed great emphasis on the capital and operational costs of the equipment to be purchased, particularly the dry bulk blending equipment at the heart of the process.

The manufacture of high-quality pharmaceutical glass is an exacting business that calls for careful control at all stages of the process in order to obtain the desired properties in the final product. Those properties vary, depending on what the glass is to be used for, so the initial step - the precise measurement and thorough mixing of multiple ingredients - is critical to the rest of the operation.

For example, Kimble Glass, Vineland, NJ, blends more than 120 batches/day of raw

GKN Sinter Metals Inc. is the world`s largest manufacturer of parts made by powder metallurgy, a molding process that produces complex shapes with a range of properties. Powder metallurgy offers benefits in part fabrication over competing metal processes. It is faster than forging or casting and permits the use of more performance-enhancing alloys than die-casting. GKN Sinter Metals, Auburn Hills, MI, has about 40 sites worldwide, producing components like gears, bearings, and pulleys f

In 1985 Mortex Manufacturing Co., Inc., bought a new rotary drum mixer in anticipation of expanding its line of chemical additives that are used to make decorative, nonskid coatings for concrete around swimming pools and on patios. The additives are mixed with white cement and white marble by contractors at the jobsite, and the intention was to make a premixed prod

Melsur Corporation, the world`s leading supplier of hard plastic melamine school furniture, molds components from a mixture of resin, wood flour and pigments. Each of the 32 color variations, 30 products and custom designs must be blended individually, a process that can take up to four hours, depending on product. Anything less than empirically defined cycle times alters the final color and produces blemishes in the finished product.

Melsur wanted to reduce blending times, but hig

The vision of a greener future for the construction industry motivates Andrew Dennis, an architect here who founded a company dedicated to producing environmentally friendly cement-based products.

Instead of the heavy aggregates found in standard concrete, the materials made by GigaCrete Inc. include non silica based sands and byproducts of coal combustion, fly-ash and bottom-ash and recycled glass that are usually dumped into landfills. The recycled materials are mixed with GigaCrete

Having no internal moving elements, blender achieves 100% discharge eliminating process problems.

To remain competitive in a widening world economy, manufacturers have to provide quality products at world market competitive prices. This has forced American manufacturers to rethink their approach to manufacturing. Particularly, rethink the cost effectiveness of their manufacturing strategies, and the production effectiveness of manufacturing equipmen

Paddle blenders at world`s largest independent compounder of cellulose meet demand for encapsulated fragrances

Custom compounder Rotuba Extruders had a great idea 20 years ago: scented plastics. The company set out to compound fragrances in cellulose acetate resin that could be molded or extruded into various products. The concept looked promising, but there was one problem — the market w

While most reading this article may be unfamiliar with the Kopp Glass name, most are likely familiar with Kopp Glass products. From a humble beginning more than 80 years ago, as a manufacturer of red glass for railroad signals, Kopp now claims to be the world`s leading producer of precision molded industrial quality technical glass. 

The company is known worldwide among the industries it serves as a producer of molded borosilicate glass, a tough material tha