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Compressed air driven vacuum conveyors for the pneumatic transport of powders, granules, tablets among other bulk products with accompanying accessories including sack loading stations and batch weighing/dosing.

Volkmann is a family owned company which has been operating for over 40 years. Today, Volkmann employs over 100 employees and operates subsidiaries in Great Britain, France, the USA and Japan. Volkmann is internationally present in many countries with local agencies. Volkmann offers customers, from various industries, class leading standards as well as individually planned and produced systems for the safe, hygienic and user-friendly handling of powders and bulk materials through the use of compressed air driven vacuum conveying equipment. This vacuum technology operates in contrast to mechanical conveyors and offers numerous advantages: - Reliable - no wear and minimal maintenance as a result, - Safe - elimination of potential sources of ignition (ATEX), - Throughout the entire process - dust free, gentle dense- and plug-flow transfer, - Hygienic - quick cleaning when changing products, - Efficient - simple, compact and light systems, also suited to mobile use.

These vacuum conveyors are designed as a modular system to allow for task-specific configuration of the equipment. They are simple and quick to dismantle, without the need for tools, to allow for good access to all components for cleaning.

These vacuum conveyors are designed specifically for applications that require maximum quality on the product contact surfaces. They are characterised by their single-piece, electro-polished construction and are primarily used in the pharmaceutical and pigment processing industries.

These specialised systems are designed to be used in hazardous processing installations, such as loading solvent filled reactor vessels, they utilise Nitrogen gas to help purge out Oxygen (down to below about 6%) and use a completely pneumatic controller to provide a safe system. This enables bulk products to be transferred in all dust and gas explosive zones (ATEX).

Using a VS or PPC conveyor various batch weighing and dosing systems are available. This is combined with a Volkmann designed and made controller to allow for easy operator interaction.

Volkmann also supplies complimenting accessories to work in combination with their vacuum conveyors. These include: - product pick up and diluting elbows to connect up with a current bulk container, - suction lances for operator controlled product pick-up, - sack loading, rip and tip, stations for the unloading of bags and sacks, - bulk bag unloaders for handling large flexible intermediate bulk containers.

With our knowledge of bulk product handling spanning over 40 years, Volkmann has a good understanding of vacuum conveying various products and can draw on the vast experience within the company to be able to provide the customer with good technical support. Alongside this is our in-house test-center to help trial installations to better understand what requirements are needed. With our in house design and manufacturing teams, Volkmann is able to customise standard systems to better fit with customer installation requirements.