We are excited to announce that the FEECO Potash Processing Handbook is being shipped alongside this year’s edition of PotashWorks magazine. PotashWorks is the only magazine dedicated to the promotion, production, and distribution of potash. As a leading supplier of potash processing solutions and equipment, …
The FEECO Innovation Center offers a variety of agglomeration test work to help develop new products, optimize current processes and more. The following highlights our agglomeration testing capabilities: NON-PRESSURE Pelletizing (rotary drum or disc pelletizer): A wet process where material fines are rolled into pellet …
The ability to accurately measure a variety of particle characteristics throughout testing in the Innovation Center is a key component in ensuring agglomerates meet their desired specifications and ultimately, the requirements of their intended use. In addition to indicating product performance, the ability to look …
This week’s photo comes from FEECO’s annual Veteran’s Day gathering. Our current staff and retirees gathered over lunch to honor all veterans who served our country, with special recognition of those in the FEECO family who served. In support of project greenlight a vet, FEECO also …
Not unlike the hurricanes before it, Hurricane Matthew has again brought the issues surrounding manure lagoons to light in the wake of the country’s most recent natural disaster. Lagoons are large, open-air storage pits for manure, now the norm at most intensive animal farming operations …
FEECO Process Sales Engineer, Shane Le Capitaine, will be presenting at the IFDC’s Granular Fertilizers Production Workshop in Bangkok, Thailand November 7-11, 2016 at the Royal Benja Hotel. The workshop focuses on the technologies and methods used in granular fertilizer production, and examines the specialized …
Biosolids granulation is the transformation of biosolids into a granular product that is nearly odor-free and rich in nutrients. The diagram below highlights a mixer to dryer granulation setup (click to enlarge). Part one of the process takes place in a mixer, generally in a …
The FEECO website has seen many exciting additions over the past few months, geared toward industry-specific resources. Coating Drum Project Profile A new project profile has been added on a coating drum for an ammonium sulfate project. FEECO provided an ammonium sulfate coating drum for …
Pressure agglomeration relies on extreme pressure to force particles together into a desired shape. This includes the following techniques: compaction, briquetting, extrusion, tableting and molding. Non-pressure agglomeration, also known as tumble growth agglomeration, relies on a binding agent and the phenomenon of coalescence to create …
This week’s photo comes from MINExpo 2016, a premiere exhibition on mining equipment and services from around the world. MINExpo was held in Las Vegas September 26 – 28th, 2016 and FEECO was once again an exhibitor. Tim Matzke, Material Handling Sales, and Chris Kozicki, …