K-Tron Announces New Online catalogue for Pneumatic Conveying Components

Nijkerk, The Netherlands (May 30, 2011) – K-Tron, a global total solutions provider for material handling and feeding systems has recently launched a new Online catalogue for Pneumatic Conveying Components and Accessories. The new catalogue showcases the extensive range of pneumatic conveying products K-Tron offers and, best of all, provides an easy-to-navigate format for users. The online catalogue features comprehensive technical information and detailed images to provide users with a simple and quick platform to find the right solution for their pneumatic conveying needs.

The K-Tron Online Components catalogue can easily be accessed by going to http://catalogue.ktronpremier.com where a user will see K-Tron’s full pneumatic conveying product line including valves, conveying line accessories, filter receivers, cyclones, blower packages, flow aids, feeders & mixers, bag dump stations, automated controls and a full line of vacuum sequencing loaders, receivers and accessories for applications in a wide range of industries, including plastics, food, chemical and pharmaceutical.

The online catalogue allows the user to compare various products to help determine the right model or configuration for their needs, as well as download product specification sheets and brochures, review dimensions and easily request information on any item. Other features of the online catalogue include the ability to email product pages and access a detailed material data form designed specifically to facilitate requesting a quotation for a K-Tron Aerolock™ rotary valve.

The new K-Tron Online Components and Accessories catalogue’s instant access, simple format and extensive features make it a powerful and convenient tool for anyone in the market for pneumatic conveying components.

About K-Tron: K-Tron is a global leader in the gravimetric feeder market and a single-source supplier for feeding, pneumatic conveying and systems engineering solutions. K-Tron has defined the leading edge of technology for material handling applications in the process industries.

K-Tron Offers Complete Line of Volumetric and Gravimetric Feeding Equipment, Controls and Systems for Dosing Dry Bulk Materials and Liquids

Nijkerk, The Netherlands (May 30, 2011) - Specializing in high accuracy feeding and metering of powders and bulk materials, K-Tron offers a full range of volumetric and gravimetric feeding solutions for a variety of industries including food, pharmaceutical, chemical, plastics and nonwovens. Whether feeding by volume or by weight, K-Tron has defined the lead edge of technology for material handling applications in process industries.

With several single and twin screw volumetric feeder models available along with exchangeable feed screws, screw feeders can handle a wide range of applications including prefeeding, feeding or batching. Single screw feeders handle free-flowing materials such as pellets and powders, while twin screw feeders handle more difficult materials such as pigments, sticky materials, bridge-building or floodable powders, fibers and fiberglass.

K-Tron’s patented Bulk Solids Pump™ (BSP) feeder is also available in volumetric configurations, with feeder specially designed to provide gentle and precise feeding of free flowing pellets, granules, flakes, powders and other friable products. The BSP feeder does not use screws, augers, belts or vibratory trays to convey material, instead utilizing positive displacement action via vertical rotating discs that create a product lock-up zone, conveying material smoothly from storage hopper to discharge outlet, achieving true linear mass flow.

For gravimetric feeding applications, dry bulk material or liquid is fed into the process at a constant weight per unit of time since weight is a variable that can be captured by the feeder with consistent control and monitoring. Accurate feeding, metering and batching is achieved with K-Tron’s patented Smart Force Transducer (SFT) Weighing Technology, which offers a 100% digital design, resolution of 1:4,000,000 in 80 ms, and incorporates all single-wire weighing technology advances.

For gravimetric feeding applications, K-Tron offers the following feeder solutions:

• Loss-in-Weight (LIW) feeder models: Twin Screw, Single Screw, Vibratory, Bulk Solids Pump, Liquid
• Low rate, compact feeders: Twin Screw, Single Screw, Vibratory, Bulk Solids Pump, Liquid LIW
• Smart Weigh Belt (SWB) feeders with continuous online auto tare: SWB-300 & SWB-600
• Smart Flow Meter (SFM) with SFT weighing for high rate mass flow control: SFM-275-A & SFM-350
• Gravimetric blending systems -for pellets and multi-stream ratio control
• K-Tron offers complete control solutions including operator interface choices for controlling loss-in-weight, weigh belt, and Smart Flow Meters, as well as multi-feeder and multi-line controllers. K-Tron’s feeder controls include:
• K-Tron Singe Unit (KSU-II) Control Interface – for feeding applications utilizing one or a few feeders
• K-Vision Line Control Interface – for single-line, multi-feeder applications requiring line monitoring, control and data communication for any combination of up to 16 K-Tron feeder models
• K-Tron Smart Commander (KSC) Multi-line Feeder Control Interface – advanced operator interface that uses an Industrial PC Platform to simultaneously control any combination of up to 8 lines and 30 feeders
• SmartConnex™- integrates the basic components of the feeder system – mechanical design, control architecture and weighing technology