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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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Questions that we frequently receive regarding our slide gates, diverters, loading spouts & other dry bulk handling applications.
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The customer was looking for a way to pinch off a large bulk bag that was handling chocolate pieces. The originally inquired Vortex about an iris valve.
These Vortex Titan Slide Gates (TSGs) were designed to handle abrasive materials at high temperatures.
Having had negative experiences with previous spout manufacturers, this company saw the advantages of Vortex’s design – especially with the significant travel distance required for their application.
In 2017, Vortex completed a large project with an industrial sand manufacturer to construct a new sand processing facility.
Pneumatically convey polymer pellets from a screener into either of two quality assurance tanks.
These Vortex Titan Aggregate Gates were manufactured in a special rectangular shape to match the size of gates that were originally supplied with the customer’s milling equipment.
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.
These Vortex Maintenance Gates are designed to be open 99 percent of the time. The gates will be closed in the case of an upset condition, or when equipment maintenance is required downstream.
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.
These Vortex Aggregate Diverters were sourced for a rail transload facility, located in the Marcellus Shale area.
Application: Introduce hot, spent foundry sand into a cooler.
The client requested that the Maintenance Gate, Titan Slide Gate, and Titan Lined Diverter be assembled as one unit, prior to shipping.
Two of these hydraulically actuated TSG Gates were manufactured to include abrasion resistant steel blades, abrasion resistant inlet liners, and bonnet seal cartridges.
In this client’s application, the Vortex HDPV2 is installed alongside a second pre-existing slide gate. The two gates operate in tandem to be used as a diverter.
The combination of the V-notch blade and the diamond-shaped inlet allows material to discharge centrally through the middle of the Vortex® Roller Gate™.
The client’s end product is athletic sportswear. TPU has many applications, including sporting goods; textile coatings; outer cases of mobile electronics; laptop keyboard protectors...
This gate is specifically designed to address potential environmental issues.
For this plastics manufacturer, the process of conveying plastic pellets was a production and safety nightmare.
These Vortex HDPV2 Slide Gates will handle non-abrasive powders at higher conveying line pressures.
This Vortex Loading Spout is being used for stockpiling by a dry feed processor in the United States.
In 2007, a county sanitation district approached Vortex to discuss a process need in their waste-to-energy power plant.
