This week’s photo shows a semi-truck transporting a rotary drum. Transporting any equipment can be a challenging task, but that challenge seems to multiply when shipping rotary drums. Since everything is highly customized, no two pieces of equipment are necessarily alike. Thus, no one size …
This week’s photo shows an 8’x60’ rotary drum inside FEECO’s facility. FEECO provides a vast range of rotary drums including ore agglomerators, granulators, kilns, calciners, coolers, and dryers for your processing needs- all designed in nearly any configuration. From parallel or counter-current flow, direct or …
Our photo this week is a paddle mixer from 1964. Paddle mixers agglomerate, condition and mix various materials- wet and dry- via two rotating shafts with outward-extending paddles. As the shafts rotate, the paddles move the material, creating a kneading and folding over effect. Though …
What a customer brings to feasibility testing and how they approach the process will often vary greatly. One customer may require precise formulations and product characteristics such as weight, size, and crush strength, while another may only know the end product they would like to …
Our photo this week is a briquetter, a machine which transforms particle fines into a larger, more useful shape through compaction. A briquetter uses a roll press to compact material fines and ultimately create briquettes. The machine works when the rolls force the fines into …
This week’s photo shows a 24 inch disc pelletizer (pan granulator) with a vibratory feeder, liquid storage tank, pump and movable base. This pelletizer was built for a proprietary company to use for testing purposes. In the process of disc pelletizing, raw material fines such …
This week’s photo shows several trunnion wheels under production in the FEECO manufacturing facility. Trunnion wheels are an integral part of any rotary drum base. Made up of a harder steel than the drum tire, the trunnion wheels carry the weight of the drum and …
This week’s photo shows two FEECO agglomerators installed at an ore processing facility. Adding an agglomerator to a heap leaching operation not only increases efficiency, but also maximizes metal recovery, whether the operation is for gold, silver, copper, or nickel ore. These agglomerators work by …
This week’s photo shows a batch pin mixer from the FEECO Lab. Pin mixers are a type of industrial mixer that can be used for a wide variety of materials, either as a stand-alone agglomerator, or as part of a larger agglomeration process. They are …
This week’s photo, from the late 1950’s, shows a FEECO rotary drum ready for shipment. In the 1950’s, FEECO was shipping rotary drums such as granulators, agglomerators, rotary dryers, and rotary coolers, around the United States, for use in fertilizer granulation plants. Today, FEECO still …