Equipment Spotlight Material handling Focus on small wheel loaders, walking floors and bagging lines Staff report umetric feeding system, and downstream from conveying and palletizing systems. FFS systems allow you to greatly reduce your packaging material costs while offer-ing you great performance and unrivalled reliability. www.ptchronos.com/en-ca DOOSAN Doosan DL200-5 wheel loaders are designed with a hydrostatic drive system, offering several advantages over a torque convert-er system. DL200-5 wheel loaders provide improved fuel efficiency because of higher performance at lower engine rpms; enhance machine positional control to increase pro-ductivity; and reduce wear on the brakes as dynamic braking automatically slows the wheel loader. The 142-net-horsepower DL200-5 wheel loader is built with a stan-dard Z-bar lift-arm linkage system and has a 2.6-cubic-yard bucket capacity. DL200-5 wheel loader operators can select between three power modes to best match project tasks and minimize fuel consumption. www.doosanequipment.com CREATIVE PACKAGING INC. AIROFLEX PREMIER TECH CHRONOS The Premier Tech Chronos’ FFS Series Horizontal Form Fill and Seal (FFS) Bag-ging Machines are fully automatic systems which make their own bags from rolls of pre-printed, center-folded polyethylene film (U film). They are intended to package a wide range of loose fill materials. These form fill and seal baggers can be integrated upstream from either a weighing or a vol-Creative Packaging Inc.’s works with the North American wood pellet industry to supply numerous companies with a variety automatic packaging systems. The Italian-made B&C Automatic Ma-chinery Model CV4080 vertical form-fill-seal, equipped with overhead, dual electronic weighing units, and utilizing printed poly film on a roll, affords over 1,200 (40-pound) bags/hour, and can be equipped with an auxiliary super sack (1,000-2,000-pound) pellet filling feature. Discharging filled bags from the VFF&S into an automatic, low-level palletizer and in-line pallet wrapper, or pallet-load stretch hooder, the system only requires a fork-lift operator. [email protected] Airoflex Equipment has engineered and designed truck dumpers and receiving hoppers for over 70 years. Airoflex truck dumpers/tippers and hoppers have a proven performance to ensure a productive facility. Airoflex truck dumpers can unload many materials, such as biomass and wood chips, with a raise time of approximately three minutes. Combined with an above-grade hopper or an over-the-wall material chute, an extended arm dumper is easy to maintain and provides years of trouble free operation. After-the-sale customer service is our com-mitment, with start-up and commissioning, a large inventory of spare parts, cylinder re-pair, and a cylinder exchange program. www.airoflex.com KEITH MANUFACTURING Automate receiving, storing and metering fuel materials with a Keith Walking Floor live-bottom bin. Bins are outfitted with a walking floor conveying system, providing a cost effective, low maintenance solution JUNE 2017 28 Canadian BIOMASS
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