16 B ULK D ISTRIBUTOR
Industrial Packaging
November/December 2019
Greif continues
Russia expansion
A
second IBC production plant in Russia has been opened
by Greif.
Located on Vorsino Industrial Park in Kaluga, adjacent to Greif’s
steel drum production plant, the new hi-tech, food-grade IBC facility
covers an area of 5,500 sqm and will allow Greif to double
production capacity of IBCs in Russia.
Konstantin Savinov, director of operations EMEA Eastern Europe,
said: “The opening of a new IBC facility in Russia underlines Greif’s
commitment to the market. Continued investment from local
government and multinational corporations, as well as its proximity to
several of Greif’s key customers makes Kaluga an attractive region.
“The investment will allow us to serve better our existing
customers by offering more flexibility, reduced lead times and lower
transport costs as well as the ability to dispatch combined batches
of steel drums and IBCs. It will also mean we have the capacity to
secure new contracts, particularly in the food industry, as well as
coatings, petrochemicals and specialty chemicals.”
Greif opened its first IBC facility in Russia in Kazan in 2007. The
company also operates seven steel drum production facilities, the
Greif’s new IBC production
plant in Kaluga, Russia
most recent of which was opened on Vorsino Industrial Park in July
2018.
• Greif president and CEO Pete Watson was the keynote speaker at
the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)
annual meeting dinner, kicking off the four-day event.
“It is our honour to support an event that gathers representatives
from more than 200 global companies dedicated to working
together to create a sustainable world,” Watson commented.
The 2019 WBCSD Council meeting took place 14-17 October in
Lisbon, Portugal. This year’s theme was Lead, Transform and
Succeed. Greif sponsored the council dinner on 14 October, where
Watson provided remarks focusing on the linkage between servant
leadership and sustainability.
“Applying a servant leader approach to sustainability means
finding ways to serve our colleagues, customers, shareholders,
ecosystems and communities where we operate,” he said. “It’s
about taking care of and serving all of our stakeholders and our
planet.”
Dust-free
dumping
A
new mobile drum tipper-conveyor system from Flexicon
allows dust-free dumping of bulk solid materials from
drums, and/or conveying it to process equipment and storage
vessels throughout the plant.
The system’s Tip-Tite Drum Tipper accommodates drums from 114
to 208 litres, weighing up to 340kg and measuring 90-120 cm in
height. Mounted on a mobile frame with quick-action floor jacks, it
raises the drum hydraulically to form a dust-tight seal between the
rim of a drum and the underside of the discharge cone.
A separate hydraulic cylinder tips the platform-hood assembly and
drum, stopping at dump angles of 45, 60 or 90 degrees with a
motion-dampening feature. The vertically-oriented cone mates with
a gasketed inlet port fitted to the hopper of the system’s flexible
screw conveyor, and to any low profile equipment throughout the
plant. A pneumatically-actuated slide gate valve prevents material
flow until the discharge cone has been properly seated in the
gasketed receiving ring.
The mobile Flexicon screw conveyor, which can operate
independently or when mated to the drum tipper, can feed material
to elevated process equipment and storage vessels. The only moving
part contacting material is a rugged inner screw which can move
both free- and non-free-flowing materials with no separation of
blended products. The screw is driven beyond the point of
discharge, preventing material contact with seals or bearings.
Removal of the hopper lid allows manual dumping and feeding
from upstream equipment.
Flexibility of the tipper and conveyor to handle a diversity of
materials independently or in tandem throughout the plant enables
the system to satisfy a range of current and future requirements,
according to the manufacturer.
Ready to plug in and run, it is constructed of carbon steel with a
durable industrial finish, and is available with stainless steel material
contact surfaces or in all-stainless construction, finished to food,
dairy, pharmaceutical or industrial standards.
The company also manufactures high-lift drum tippers, drum
fillers, box/container tippers, bulk bag dischargers, bulk bag
conditioners, bulk bag fillers, pneumatic conveying systems, tubular
cable conveyors, bag dump stations, weigh batching and blending
systems, and engineered plant-wide bulk handling systems with
automated controls.
www.flexicon.co.uk
The Mobile Tip-Tite Drum Tipper and
Flexicon conveyor can perform a diversity
of tasks independently or in tandem
throughout the plant