This week’s photo highlights a pugmill mixer. FEECO’s Assembly Team is currently constructing the machine at our Fabrication Facility in Green Bay, WI (USA). A pugmill mixer, also known as a paddle mixer, is a horizontal mixing, conditioning, and agglomerating device ideal for processing heavy-duty …
Today’s photo comes from the 2016 International Powder and Bulk Solids Conference and Exhibition, where FEECO was a return exhibitor at this biennial event. Tim Matzke, FEECO’s Material Handling Sales Engineer, is pictured left. Our team of experts occupied booth #1500, and shared FEECO’s capabilities …
This week’s photo shows a welder inside FEECO’s Fabrication Facility. The photo was taken in April of 1959, just eight years after FEECO was founded. Located in Green Bay, Wisconsin (USA), FEECO’s headquarters is staffed by highly certified fabricators, machinists, and welders- many who have …
This week’s photo highlights wear on a rotary dryer’s downhill thrust roller. Thrust rollers ride on the uphill and downhill edges of the rotary drum tire. They function to keep the drum from drifting, and ideally make little to no contact with the tire. In …
This week’s photo shows a cattle manure sample in its raw state (left) and granulated form (right). FEECO’s Process Experts transformed the manure into fortified, dry fertilizer granules. There are several on-farm practices that affect the makeup of manure: animal species, feed, manure handling practices, …
This week’s photo highlights potash granules produced via compaction (left) and granules produced via pelletizing (right). Potash compaction granulation and pelletization are two agglomeration methods, each offering a set of advantages and disadvantages. Compaction granulation does not use a binder or drying during processing, a …
This week’s photo features two lifter designs. Lifters, also known as fins or flights, are commonly added to the interior of a rotary dryer to assist in the industrial drying process. Their overall objective is to promote efficient heat transfer between the material and the …
Today’s photo comes from the FEECO Innovation Center. A Process Expert is adding binder to a humate sample, as it is being processed on the batch disc pelletizer. While some materials may be self-binding, in most cases, the right binder is critical to agglomeration success. …
Today’s photo highlights a batch pin mixer in the FEECO Innovation Center. Our team of Process Experts use the small-scale mixer during agglomeration lab tests for a variety of purposes. The batch pin mixer is commonly used for pre-conditioning material samples, blending moisture or binder, …
Today’s photo shows a belt plow under fabrication at FEECO. Belt plows serve as an auxiliary material discharge system, releasing material on either side of the belt before the head pulley. They are added onto troughed belt conveyors and primarily work to increase flexibility in …