Orthos are delighted to report we can now offer you the comprehensive range of solid materials processing and sample preparation equipment from our new partners the Laarmann Group.  Within their variety of mills, crushers and grinders, you’re sure to find the right equipment to convert your bulk material sample into a form ready for analysis.  An array of sample dividers and test sieves completes Laarmann’s product range.

Orthos sales manager, Andrew Reynolds, explains “for many years Orthos have supplied the British and Irish process industries with automatic samplers from our principals Sentry Equipment and M&W Jawo Handling, but we never had anything in our line-up before to process the material collected by our samplers.  Now that all changes thanks to our partnership with Laarmann, extending our scope to include not only the sampler but also the downstream equipment to prepare samples for analysis”

Further details and product information can be found on our sample preparation pages or visit Laarmann’s website.

If you are an engineer or manager involved in the handling/processing of loose bulk solids materials and powders (and you want to increase your power!) then the next SHAPA Knowledge Conference may be for you. 

Scheduled for Tuesday 5th October 2010 at Loughborough University’s Imago Holywell Park, the conference offers delegates an opportunity to hear about the latest regulatory issues, their interpretation and implementation and the latest ideas and thinking on different aspects of solids handling techniques from some of the foremost authorities in their fields. 

Ten punchy presentations in two streams during the day cover diverse topics such as explosion safety, ATEX/DSEAR conformance, improving productivity, batch and continuous mixing, conveying technologies and others.  Delegates may select the sessions that best suit their needs, with efficiency and economy at the heart of many of the presentations.  All will receive material from every session, whether individually attended or not. 

Focused discussion groups on the topics presented give a further opportunity to meet and learn from speakers and other delegates.  In addition there will be table top displays illustrating techniques and capabilities of a number of companies, including Orthos.

We’ll have info on all our powder processing and plant safety equipment/systems.

After making some last minute finishing touches to our stand the night before, we had a minor panic on Tuesday morning because our main display on the Eirich mixer stand wouldn’t operate as required.  However
a quick swap of two wires rectified the problem and we were good to go.  This unit was an Eirich RV12W mixer of 400 litre capacity that also featured a tipping head to make cleaning as easy as possible.

Over from Eirich was Dirk Heuer, one of the technical sales guys and a concrete specialist.  Like the rest of us Dirk was happy to be out in the sunshine and looking forward to a well attended show – just as well because the night before he’d taken a ride from Manchester airport to Buxton with a taxi driver we nicknamed Dick Turpin (the highway robber).

Down at the Allgaier stand were Armin Heussler and Gerd Stölzner, two more German colleagues amazed by the British weather.  As Hillhead debutantes, neither knew what to expect in terms of visitor numbers and interest level, but after day one Gerd commented that despite only a few enquiries, all of them related to real projects with investment behind, so he was satisfied with the quality.  Brand new for the Allgaier tumbler screen we had the “G-section” sealing for external screen decks.  Made from silicon, the main advantage of this sealing profile is that it can be wrapped around the screen frame and held in place without glue, therefore doing away with the flat gaskets normally glued to the cylinders above and below the screen deck, saving time and money (More news coming soon).

Wednesday was similarly warm and dusty but naturally most people’s minds were on the World Cup matches scheduled for later that day, and consequently we noticed less visitors circulating our area of the quarry.  Several hours later with England already safely through to the knockout stage, and Dirk on his way back to the airport (this time in a pre-booked taxi at half the price of his inbound one) we learned that Germany would be England’s opponents in the last sixteen of the tournament, which naturally was the main talking point of the evening for these English/German colleagues!

Despite the weather turning grey and wet in the morning, Thursday still seemed fairly well attended and we met several familiar faces from client’s in the building materials and minerals industries. After a rough ride in the last two years, the general feeling seeming to be one of cautious optimism, which was good news to hear.

Standing room only at our neighbours Terex Finlay!

Case Construction had an awesome motorbike display!

Watching the big stuff in action at the demo area

We’re delighted to report that our friends from Allgaier Process Technology will be making their debut appearance at the Hillhead exhibition on 22-24th June 2010.  Together we’ll be displaying a tumbler screen with a few new tricks on it for sieving fine powders like Limestone.  So if you’d like to meet some of the faces behind the name, come along to see us on stand X19 – it’ll be great to meet you.

And while you’re at Hillhead why not visit Orthos’ other stand [M20] to take a look at a new size R-type mixer from another of our principals Eirich? Click here to read more.