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Featured Articles
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Shrinking The Supply Chain Expands The Return: The ROI Of RFID In The Supply Chain
By Thomas Pisello, author of IT Value Chain Management
The purpose of this paper is to review various business benefits of implementing RFID and discuss various typical ROI results, providing a guide to the value typical organizations can expect from streamlining supply chains using RFID implementations. With more than a decade of researching and developing technology ROI and total cost of ownership, the Alinean team are the experts leading solution providers, consultancies, and CIOs turn to for IT value advice, research, and assessment/benchmarking tools.
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Conveying Fresh-Cut Produce: The State-Of-The-Industry Report
By Key Technology, Inc.
In this white paper, we will explore the types of conveyor systems that are suitable for fresh-cut produce — belt conveyors, vibratory conveyors, and horizontal motion conveyors — highlighting the strengths and weaknesses of each. We will consider a variety of fresh-cut products, from leafy greens to whole and cut fruits and vegetables, as well as a range of applications from simple conveying to dewatering, fines removal, and more.
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Pull To Open — If You Can
By Len Thibodeau, Texture Product Manager, Brookfield Engineering Laboratories, Inc.
One of the most frustrating things about packaged snacks is trying to open the bag. We've all experienced the hassle with a package of snacks or chips that requires more force than we can apply to peel apart the seal, or the package that tears with the seal still intact. When the package fails, it's usually so abrupt that the contents end up on the floor or in your lap.
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Lye Peeling Of Fruits And Vegetables
By Emerson Process Management, Rosemount Analytical Liquid
Many fruits and vegetables are prepared for peeling and canning by exposure to caustic (NaOH). To ensure adequate and consistent peeling, the concentration of caustic in the treatment bath must be maintained at an effective strength. At the same time, if the caustic bath is too strong, the fruit or vegetable can be damaged.
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Featured Products
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Stainless Steel Tools
Steritool specializes in the manufacture of professional quality stainless steel hand tools designed for use in sterile, cleanroom, corrosive, radioactive, and other critical environments. Our hand tools are fully autoclaveable and offer an unsurpassed level of corrosion resistance. View the product datasheets for more information.
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Halogen Moisture Analyzers
The METTLER TOLEDO family of moisture analyzers provides fast, precise, and reliable moisture determination. Our solutions cover industries as diverse as pharmaceutical, requiring compliance with regulations; plastics, with the need for highest resolution; or food, requiring robust and simple-to-use instruments for routine testing on the factory floor. Download additional product information.
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Model 245 PUR-Sense Flow-Through Conductivity Sensor
Rosemount Analytical Toroidal Conductivity Sensors are ideal for use in processes where conventional sensors — those with electrodes exposed to the measured solution — would corrode or become fouled. Download additional product information.
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TOTE Wash Stations
TOTE Wash Stations are designed to wash and dry all sizes of TOTE Containers effectively, efficiently, and economically. Download additional product information.
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Zero Liquid Discharge
Aquatech's revolutionary Zero Liquid Discharge (ZLD) technology totally eliminates FGD wastewater discharge by converting it into disposable dry solids. Aquatech ZLD is environmentally friendly, highly reliable, and offers extremely competitive lifecycle costs. Download additional product information.
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Industrial Scales
Industrial scales from Sartorius combine simple handling and high performance. Select the suitable industrial scales from many models, designs, and capacity ranges. Download additional product information.
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Tank Level Monitoring Systems
Tank Level Monitoring: The Liqui-Track 3200 can accept up to 32 inputs from linear and non-linear storage vessels. It features Allen-Bradley DH+ digital communications for sending information throughout the plant network. Download additional product information.
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Washers And Wash Stations
Sanitize and dry your containers or other process equipment, including bins, drums, fluid bed drier bowls, down spouts, pallets, and other parts with Custom Powder Systems' repeatable and validatable washers or wash stations, designed to meet your specific cleaning requirements. Download additional product information.
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EZ-SPORE
Food process controls provide the dependability and reliability that food testing laboratories need to meet the requirements of their quality assurance programs as well as to ensure the health of consumers. Download additional product information.
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MC70 Handheld Mobile Computer
Put the power of a cell phone, PDA, computer, scanner, and imager in the hands of your mobile workers with the first rugged enterprise digital assistant. Designed to withstand all-day, everyday use in nearly any environment, this rugged compact device delivers true anywhere, anytime wireless WAN/LAN/PAN voice and data communications, including superior voice functionality, data capture, and the power to run nearly any application. Download additional product information.
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Featured Downloads
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Case Study: Ecograph RSG 30 Relays Control Temperature In Boiler For Meat Processing
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Temperature in the carcass wash process must be maintained to kill bacteria but not allow any meat to cook prematurely.
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Brochure: Dry Calcium Hypochlorite Feeding System Model MM-1S
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Arch Chemicals, Inc., announces the addition of model MM-1S calcium hypochlorite feeder to its line of Constant Chlor feeding systems for municipal and industrial applications.
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Brochure: Ribbon And Vertical Blenders
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PROCESS EXPO Booth 7457
Ross has been building the most advanced mixing and blending equipment
for more than 150 years. Our ribbon blenders, paddle blenders, vertical
blenders, and vacuum dryers are used today in all the process industries and
in virtually every industrialized nation.
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Datasheet: pH Electrode And Temperature Sensor InPro 4260 And InPro 4260SG
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The InPro 4260 electrodes feature the new XEROLYT EXTRA reference polymer for precise pH measurement and longer lifetime, even under the most difficult industrial environments.
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Column Lifts
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Custom Powder Systems Column Lifts are used to elevate and accurately place bins, drums, tanks, and other equipment for docking with a wide variety of equipment, such as tablet presses, encapsulators, mills, sifters, granulators, fluid bed dryers, compactors, and process tanks.
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Rotaball Tank Washer
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The Rotaball stainless steel tank washer is a compact, rotating-ball cleaning device used to wash the interiors of medium- and smaller-sized tanks.
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Featured Multimedia
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Video: Seal-Scan 550 For Online Pouch Seal Inspection
The Seal-Scan 550 for online pouch seal inspection uses PTI's patented non-destructive airborne ultrasound technology. It features high-speed on-line pouch seal inspection with a pouch-handling system and an automatic reject station for faulty pouches. Applications include standup, flat, dry-filled, and retort pouches. See this in action!
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Bulletin Board
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Continuous, Accurate Online Moisture Analysis For Automated Process Control
The new Sartorius PMD300 moisture analyzer series is designed especially for online analysis, providing the user with a complete, accurate overview of the current state of their production process. Utilizing microwave resonance technology, moisture content data (multiple readings per second) can be automated, or if desired, immediate feedback can be realized via manual process control. Click here to learn more.
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