bulk material handling

Three ways to minimize the impact of the packaging on export bulk shipping costs

Exporting is normally made through long distances. The longer the distance that a product is transported, the higher the cost impact is on what can be considered "dead weight." Even...

/ June 27, 2017
hard-to-flow bulk products

Simple and economic way of transporting cohesive and hard-to-flow bulk products

If we summarize the cohesive hard-to-flow bulk products that are transported around the World, we can have a significant idea of the possibilities which can arrive containerizing part of this...

/ June 20, 2017
bulk handling materials

This simple process will impact your supply chain

How in those real cases the labor and process equipment needed for some operations can be dramatically reduced by changing those processes from what they originally are to the use...

/ June 12, 2017
It is time to say goodbye Big Bags

It is time to say goodbye to Big Bags

Just think about how does your supply chain handles (packs or receives packed) the bulk packaging of bulk solids used in your processes?

/ June 6, 2017
unloading hard-to-flow products

Common unloading hard-to-flow products problems

One extreme case of a client that was losing too much time because of an inefficient hard-to- flow bulk solids unloading operation and how this operation should be improved also...

/ May 30, 2017
hard-to-flow products

Common loading hard-to-flow products problems

Sometimes the challenge of loading or unloading bulk solid products is not to break the “grains” when using bulk throwers, or not throwing it in high velocity, or even to...

/ May 16, 2017