Highlights at SOLIDS 2024

Issue 06/2011

100 years of Hartsteinwerke Fischer

With a special ceremony and an open day, the 100 year company anniversary of what is currently Granitwerk Fischer GmbH & Co. KG was celebrated with over 800 guests and visitors on 30.04.2011 in...

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Issue 06/2011

New scrap drum from Eriez

Eriez Magnetics Europe Ltd. has recently launched their super strength P-Rex permanent magnetic scrap drum (Fig.). For many years electric motors or meatballs in shredder streams have caused problems...

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Issue 06/2011

Patently round

Analysing the service life of idlers

1 Calculating bearing lifetime The trouble-free operation of an idler depends essentially on the mobility of the deep groove ball bearing. For this reason, in the calculation of the lifetime of an...

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Issue 06/2011

Calculated automatically

Practice-oriented designing for rotary dryers

1 The practicable design of rotary dryers The drying process occurring in a rotary dryer can be depicted theoretically by means of combination of the differential equations for heat transfer and mass...

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Issue 06/2011

Competence and efficiency

For over 40 years, LISTENOW has ensured that nothing is spilt during the loading of bulk solids. Whether A for ash or Z for zirconia, whether for loading into rail waggons, dry bulk tankers or ships...

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Issue 05/2011

Mobile unbalance vibratory conveyor

Dosiertechnik GmbH builds “feeders” for feeding production lines, sorting and processing plants. The feeder unit pictured (Fig.) essentially consists of a mobile steel structure with integrated...

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Issue 05/2011

RUBBLE MASTER conquers Swiss mountains

“Higher, higher, and higher still” – this could be the maxim of RUBBLE MASTER at the Linthal project in the Swiss canton of Glarus. This time the 28-t RM100 was moved even higher, with a...

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Issue 05/2011

New company start-up

Following its founding at the end of 2010, ComSort Technologies GmbH & Co. KG started work at the beginning of 2011. The company specializing in comminution and sorting systems builds and supplies two...

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Issue 05/2011

Precrusher in dual-shaft design

S.S.T. Schüttguttechnik GmbH has developed the solids dual-shaft lump crusher (Fig.) as a simple, low-cost and rugged precrusher. This ensures that downstream conveyors operate trouble-free, or the...

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Issue 05/2011

A single ­tandem rotary railcar dumper to Australia

Metso will supply a single tandem rotary railcar dumper (Fig.) to Hamersley Iron Pty Ltd, a member of Rio Tinto Group, for its Cape Lambert, Port B iron ore operation in North Western Australia. The...

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