Container discharging and feeding

Material Transfer’s Lift & Seal container discharging and feeding system accepts, seals, rotates and discharges containers of material at 78 in. above floor level into a surge hopper. The unit’s pivot carriage docks to a surge hopper inlet nozzle, dual slide gates are opened, and contents are discharged without contamination.

Material Transfer; 800-836-7068; www.materialtransfer.com

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Wayne Labs has more than 30 years of editorial experience in industrial automation. He served as senior technical editor for I&CS/Control Solutions magazine for 18 years where he covered software, control system hardware and sensors/transmitters. Labs ran his own consulting business and contributed feature articles to Electronic Design, Control, Control Design, Industrial Networking and Food Engineering magazines. Before joining Food Engineering, he served as a senior technical editor for Omega Engineering Inc. Labs also worked in wireless systems and served as a field engineer for GE’s Mobile Communications Division and as a systems engineer for Bucks County Emergency Services. In addition to writing technical feature articles, Wayne covers FE’s Engineering R&D section.