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Vortex specializes in the design and manufacture of components used to transport and control flow of dry bulk solid materials.
Vortex handles a wide range of materials & has over 150 years of combined experience handling dry bulk solids.
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Source a solution that best prevents in-line contamination. Provide more access to the diverter’s internal, to better accommodate frequent wash-down and improve ease of in-line maintenance
These Vortex TPV Gates are designed to handle abrasive materials in a dense phase pneumatic conveying process. In this client’s application, line pressures are approximately 35-40 psig.
Find a solution for stopping flow of materials in a gravity flow application that requires frequent wash-down.
Since 2007, Vortex has been providing a U.S. plastics company with solutions for transporting plastic materials throughout their production facility.
Divert raw grain materials from one source toward three destinations, to be pelletized for animal feed.
In this specific application, the Vortex HDP Gate is used to convey dry pigments from a weigh bin into a mix tank to create liquid ink by a printing company.
These Vortex Maintenance Gates are designed to be open 99 percent of the time. The gates will be closed in the case of an upset condition, or when equipment maintenance is required downstream.
The Vortex® Seal Tite Diverter™ is designed so that the leading edge of the blade actuates into a recessed area.
Each Vortex Aggregate Gate is installed below a surge hopper and is used to feed fine sand materials into a mixer.
This Vortex retractable loading spout is being used at a barge transload facility to convey finished fertilizers
The Vortex Quick Clean Gate is critical to any sanitary manufacturing process, and especially to Food & Beverage industries.
The client’s end product is athletic sportswear. TPU has many applications, including sporting goods; textile coatings; outer cases of mobile electronics; laptop keyboard protectors...
As the gate’s hard polymer seals experience frictional wear from many cycles over time, the rubber load seals continuously force the polymer seals against the sliding blade.
The client sourced multiple Vortex Titan Slide Gates (TSGs) to facilitate the bagging of material.
In 2013, an iron ore mining company consulted Vortex to discuss a processing need. At the time, the client was using a flop gate to divert iron ore fines from a single source toward two destinations.
Vortex gates and diverters are used to handle grains, malts and hops throughout the facility. The customer had previously sourced a few Vortex products, but had never placed an order this large.
Vortex loading spouts can be manufactured to address abrasive, hazardous, and even food-grade applications. For more information, please contact us.
In August 2015, one of the representative groups for Vortex Global approached Vortex regarding a customer issue with the valving used to shut off material in a finished cement pressure transfer line.
The diverter’s dual cylinder gate design is intended for use in limited space installations. By side-mounting the actuators, a gate’s overall length is shortened by 1/3.
Based in Cheshire, UK, Tata Chemicals Europe is one of Europe’s leading producers of sodium carbonate, salt and sodium bicarbonate, among other products.
After working through these issues alongside a Vortex field service technician, this limestone processor was very impressed by the intimate customer service Vortex provided throughout the process
