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Glass Recycling: Glass Cullet Production Equipment

Posted on 1/5/23 3:09 AM

Making glass requires a lot of energy, water, and raw materials like sand (silica), limestone, soda ...

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Using Your OEM to Complete Regularly Scheduled Maintenance

Posted on 12/22/22 8:20 AM

The planning and scheduling of maintenance plays an important role in keeping a manufacturer’s ...

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Processing Coal and Petroleum Coke

Posted on 12/1/22 11:40 AM

The process of extracting a base metal from an ore, known as smelting, is an energy-intensive ...

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Choosing the Right Granulation for Diatomaceous Earth

Posted on 11/29/22 9:00 AM

A material derived from a type of fossilized algae, diatomaceous earth is a soft sedimentary rock ...

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NFPA 69: Guidelines and Compliance for Airlocks

Posted on 11/18/22 1:43 PM

Founded in 1896, the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) created its Committee on Safety to ...

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Fundamentals of Size Reduction

Posted on 11/14/22 11:51 AM

From grains to stones and from wood to ore, humans have been using tools to break down the size of ...

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Using the Rotordryer® for Distiller’s Mash

Posted on 11/4/22 2:34 PM

Distilleries, breweries, and biofuel plants generate large amounts of distillers’ grain as their ...

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Product Highlight and Video Series: Quick Clean Rota-Sieve®

Posted on 10/13/22 9:03 AM

Prater Industry’s patented Rota-Sieve® is a centrifugal rotary sieve – also known as a rotary ...

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Creating Consistency and Maintaining Quality for Bakery Premixes

Posted on 9/29/22 10:00 AM

The idea for pre-mix baking began with a surplus of molasses. In the late 1920s, Pittsburgh-based ...

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