Excessive downtime issues lead to opportunity for piFLOW® vacuum conveyor Background Urnex Brands, located in New York State USA, was looking to find a new effective method of transferring their powders into their packet/tablet machinery. They decided to strongly pursue pneumatic driven vacuum conveying as their current mechanical auger setup was creating unexpected problems. The customer was moving bulk pre-mixed citric acid and soda ash powder via a flexible screw conveyor to a Vertical F/F/S packaging machine hopper. They had several formulas of product that could not come into contact with one another. The downtime to clean out the mechanical screw auger conveyors was a major issue as it necessitated an extra worker just to perform this task while trying to reduce the overall downtime

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