Application Examples by Industy: Feeding, Pneumatic / Vacuum Conveying, and Process Automation Systems & Solutions by K-Tron

K-Tron offers complete vacuum and pressure conveying and feed systems for abrasive, friable, sticky, poor flowing, moisture and temperature sensitive materials including:

  • Stringent sanitary requirements in food, nutraceutical and pharmaceutical applications
  • For hazardous conditions
  • For handling hard-to-filter bulk materials and liquids
  • Closed loop-system
  • For special needs and requirements of the pharmaceutical industry

The following examples illustrate how to automate your process with pneumatic conveying and related process equipment. Pages illustrate a wide variety of industry-specific applications using vacuum and pressure conveying for storing, feeding, blending, scaling, sifting, drying and dust collection systems.

Plastics Processing Applications:

PE Resin / Bulk Polymer Compounding    |  Polyolefin Production    |  Wood Plastics    |  High Performance Compounding    |  Long Fiber Thermoplastics    |  BOPP Film Production    |  Continuous Hot Melt Production    |  Textile Fiber Production    |  Gravimetric Extrusion Control    |  Calcium Carbonate in Plastics Compounding    |  Conveying Urea    |  
Feeding & Conveying in PVC Production    

Learn more: Plastics Processing Equipment

Food / Petfood Processing Applications:

Gain-in-Weight Batching of Soft Drink Concentrate    |  Mixing and Extrusion of Breakfast Cereals    |  Ice Cream Ingredient Feeding    |  Pet Food Processing    |  Metering Ingredients for Snack Mixes    |  Batch Weigh Receivers in Food Production    |  Tortilla Production     |  3-A Dairy Standard    |  Pneumatic Conveying & High Accuracy Batch Weighing in Bakery Applications    |  Conveying Popcorn Kernels via Vacuum & Pressure    |  Batching & Transfer of Food Ingredients to Mixers    |  Major Ingredient Transfer and Weighing for Snack Food Processing    

Learn more: Food and Pet Food Processing Equipment

Pharmaceutical / Nutraceutical Processing Applications: 

Tablet Press Lubrication    |  Vacuum Conveying for Tabletting Operations    |  Conveying through Conical Screen Mills    |  Pharmaceutical Dispensing Applications    |  Milling and Micronization of Pharmaceutical Powders    |  Pharmaceutical Extrusion    |  Dry Powder Coating    |  Batch Dispensing via GIW    |  Dry Granulation and Direct Compression Tableting     

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Chemical Processing Applications:

Laundry Detergent    |  SAP    

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Nonwovens / Hygiene Applications

Feeding Super Absorbent Polymer (SAP)

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