Ajax Equipment Supplies Mobile Feeder to Global Pharmaceuticals Producer

ATEX Zone 1/21-compliant feeder receives pharmaceutical powder from tipped drums and discharges to a central outlet under gravity flow

Powder Bulk Solids Staff

January 26, 2023

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Ajax Equipment, has supplied a leading pharmaceuticals producer with a stainless steel mobile feeder comprising hopper and cantilevered screw feeder. Image courtesy of Ajax Equipment

Solids handling equipment specialist Ajax Equipment has supplied a leading pharmaceuticals producer with a stainless steel mobile feeder comprising hopper and cantilevered screw feeder.

The ATEX Zone 1/21-compliant feeder receives pharmaceutical powder from tipped drums and then discharges to a central outlet under gravity flow.

Ajax conducted powder testing onsite in Ireland to examine how flow could be improved from the existing solids handling system. When taken with the site’s space restraints the tests indicated that flow could be best improved by a steep vee-shaped long slot hopper with a screw feeder assisting extraction over the length of the outlet. The powder flow is then focused by the auger’s left- and right-handed flights towards the central outlet. 

The feeder sits on an adjustable mobile frame, allowing the handling system’s height to be set onsite and moved for ease of maintenance.

“Ajax has a long history of designing and manufacturing pharmaceutical standard handling equipment,” said Eddie McGee, managing director, Ajax Equipment. “For the same producer, Ajax recently supplied a fully passivated mobile loading hopper and transition chute.”

For more information, call +44 (0)1204 386723, email [email protected], or visit www.ajax.co.uk.

 

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Established in 1983, Powder & Bulk Solids (PBS) serves industries that process, handle, and package dry particulate matter, including the food, chemical, and pharmaceutical markets.

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