smart controls

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Smart Controls: Keeping Bulk Material Handling Efficient and Reliable

Practical Automation for Everyday Operations Automation has become an essential part of bulk material handling and helps facilities run efficiently, safely, and cost-effectively. Reliable control systems keep materials moving and…

Hapman batching system

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Efficiency in Batching & Blending: 4 Common Challenges and How to Fix Them

There’s no single solution for any given material handling, batching, or blending application. Significant efficiency improvements require varying degrees of customization to meet your material, processing, and business goals. Asking…

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Dust Control in Bulk Material Handling

Dust generation is one of the most persistent challenges in bulk material handling. It’s more than a housekeeping issue—dusting can present serious safety risks, lead to regulatory noncompliance, and reduce…

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Key Factors of Material Handling Equipment Design and Selection

Considerations When Handling Dry Ingredients INTRODUCTION Successful conveying and handling of dry ingredients requires much more input than understanding a material’s properties, the desired convey rate and distance. Today’s manufacturers…

USU lab

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Uniformed Services University Health Science Center for Laboratory Animal Medicine Overcomes a Severe Bedding Handling Challenge

CHALLENGE A fully operational research laboratory needed a better way for technicians to remove and dispose of more than 1,200 pounds of soiled animal bedding per day. CUSTOMER Uniformed Services…

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The University of California San Francisco, Laboratory Animal Resource Center (LARC) Finds Significant Cost Savings in Effective Handling of Waste Bedding Material

CHALLENGE The facility, which manages over 55,000 rodent cages, needed a more reliable and cost effective way to dispose of waste bedding, as well as mitigate allergen exposure, and reduce…

mice bedding

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Biotech Lab Handling Dirty Mice Bedding From Cages with Cleaning Disposal System

CHALLENGE A biotech lab needed an easy and dependable method to handle dirty animal bedding from cages. SOLUTION A Hapman tubular drag conveyor with a specialized dump hopper. The cages…