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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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Vortex Titan Pressure Valves are used to handle pebble lime at a steel mill. Titan Pressure Valves were chosen due to the abrasiveness of the material being handled.
The Vortex Aggregate Gate is designed to handle larger-size, abrasive dry bulk solid materials where fine materials and dusts are of less concern.
Divert sticky material from one source to two destinations with the ability to inspect, clean, and maintain valve without removing it from service.
This company has provided high quality flour to nationally known bakers for more than a century. They first became aware of Vortex in spring 1992.
Seven Vortex Orifice Gates are used by a welded steel pipe manufacturer to handle fine dust.The gates incorporate a dust collection system to address fine metal dust leakage on the factory floor.
The Vortex Titan Slide Gate is designed to handle abrasive materials in gravity-fed applications. Soybeans are notoriously abrasive.
This Vortex Seal Tite Diverter features a special 14” (356 mm) round to 8” square inlet and 8” square to 8” round, schedule 40 pipe, stub outlets.
This is a gravity flow application where material is being conveyed from a hopper to a grinder and a flaker.
This hydraulically actuated Vortex Titan Pivoting Chute Diverter features outlets offset to 15° with inspection covers on both sides.
The primary goals of this client's plant expansion was to add capacity and reduce carbon dioxide emissions.
The Vortex Hatch Adapter effectively covers the rectangular opening and confines airborne particles created during the loading process.
The Vortex® Titan Slide Gate™ (TSG) was identified as the ideal solution for this application. The TSG is designed for handling heavy-duty, abrasive dry materials in gravity flow applications.
In this application, two Vortex Aggregate Gates are used to shut off the flow of silica sand from a product silo that discharges into a weigh hopper.
This hand-wheel actuated Vortex Titan Slide Gate was manufactured with a “dead pocket” special service inlet.
The client sourced two Vortex Loading Spouts to interface the discharge of each bulk bag unloader with the loading port of each ball mill.
Before installing Vortex valves, a key player in the Italian pet food market had a messy and expensive clean up operation scheduled every Saturday to clear away leakage below eight silos.
Vortex Roller Gate Valves, assist for the application to shut off the flow of waste water sludge between a hopper and a truck load out.
Double dump gate designed to install at the bottom of a cyclone to meter material into a compactor. 15” connecting chute contains access door in case product clean out is necessary.
A Vortex Flex Tube Diverter eliminates material cross-contamination, and a Vortex Roller Gate shuts off and seals material at the bottom of dry blenders and mixers.
Transporting whole corn from a *nixtamal tank onto a belt conveyor. Provide a method to drain liquid from the simmered corn and aerate the tank, should an upset condition occur.
In 1996, Vortex worked with Alltech, an animal health company in Kentucky, to assist with the handling of grain at their facility.
