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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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The new diverter allows the grain elevator to control material flow through both outlets simultaneously, one outlet at a time, or a compete shut-off.
This Titan Pressure Valve is being used in a blending process.
Vigo Importing Company in Tampa, Florida utilizes the Vortex Wye Line Diverter to pneumatically convey rice from two hoppers into six different packaging stations
In 2017, Vortex completed a large project with an industrial sand manufacturer to construct a new sand processing facility.
Slide gate was equipped with an Infinite Variable Positioner and an air “fail safe” closed assembly.
This Vortex Seal Tite Diverter has been in service for seven years – without issue. Currently, the client is using loading socks at both their truck loading and railcar loading stations.
Years of positive experience with Vortex valves in their other plants made the choice for slide gates an easy one. Issues with a previous spout supplier led them to consider the Vortex Loading Spout.
This Vortex Loading Spout was sourced to address loading efficiency, dust management, health and safety best practices when expanding the operation to include a railcar loadout station.
A rubber roofing manufacturer sourced a Vortex Wye Line Diverter to replace a manual switching operation with pneumatically operated diverter valves. The valves must be capable of sealing fine powder.
The client consulted an equipment supplier to discuss their system for weighing individual ingredients. In their process, operators were manually opening and emptying 50 lb bags into holding bins.
In this client’s process, finished limestone is stored in a silo. From there, materials are discharged into three-way chutework and routed toward three different destinations.
Many breweries across the Americas and Europe utilize a wide variety of Vortex products in handling key ingredients, such as hops and malt barley.
After rebuilding a silo, the end user sourced this gate to feed powdered adipic acid into a screw conveyor below. Powdered adipic acid is used in the production of nylon.
Incorporate Flex Tube & Wye Line Diverters into a pre-existing, pressurized conveying system to support the movement of whole coffee beans and coffee grounds.
Six Vortex Telescoping Loading Spouts are equipped with double layer, trapezoidal shaped dust skirts that encompasses the peak of the material pile.
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.
In addition to a superior material seal across the gate and to atmosphere, the Clear Action Gate “self cleans” its seals on the closing stroke.
This Vortex Titan Slide Gate was designed with abrasion-resistant material contact areas, a hydraulic actuators and a return pan to contain moisture from the bituminous coal.
Badger Mining Corporation uses Vortex Loading Spouts to streamline loadout operations at its Taylor, Wisconsin, USA facility.
With 40 years of experience in designing components for handling dry bulk materials, Vortex has seen many of the more than 8 million design variations necessary for handling thousands of materials.
In 2016, Vortex was approached by a systems group at the IAOM Conference/Expo. A flour mill in Texas had contacted the systems group to consider adding Vortex Loading Spouts to their loadout station.
