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Aggregate Diverter Handling Metal Alloy

The client is routing 2 in | 50 mm pieces of abrasive alloy. This Vortex Aggregate Diverter is specifically designed to address abrasion and material impact.

Technical Article

Loading Spout vs. Loading Sock: What's the Difference

There’s lots of words to describe a long cylinder to load material from one place to another location via gravity. But what is the difference between a loading sock and a loading spout?

Videos & Animations

What is the Vortex Flex Tube Diverter?

Cody Bucker of Vortex Global discusses the Vortex® Flex Tube Diverter™. The Flex Tube Diverter eliminates material cross contamination through a positive seal across the closed port.

Case Study

Vortex Ship Loading Spouts Handling Grain

In-line filter designed to capture fugitive dusts and reintroduce dusts into the load material speed control module attached to bottom of in-line filter.

Case Study

Maintenance Gate Handling Titanium Metal Powder

Vortex enjoys working with customers to provide problem-solving products for their specific needs. This 4” round “Keeper” Maintenance Gate is the smallest we have manufactured in this product line.

Videos & Animations

Part 2: Vortex Titan Slide Gates (TSGs) Handling Industrial Sand

In this application, Vortex Titan Slide Gates (TSGs) are being used to control flow through a loading spout. Various grades of industrial sand are being discharged into enclosed trucks below.

Technical Article

Part 2: Selecting Diverter Valves for Gravity Flow Applications

This article covers the differences between multiple diverters and address factors that impact selection, based on application.

Case Study

Tube-in-Tube Loading Spout Handling Fertilizer

This tube-in-tube loading spout was designed with telescoping tubes constructed from 304 stainless steel.

Case Study

Vortex Custom-Engineered Diverter Valve Handles Iron Ores

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.

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