December 18, 2018

Engineered Roller Gate Handling Adipic Acid

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.

December 17, 2018

Flex Tube Diverter Handling Cocoa Nibs

The Vortex Flex Tube Diverter is installed vertically to convey materials from one source toward three destinations.

June 12, 2019

Part 5: Vortex Titan Series & Loading Solutions Assist at a Large Industrial Sand Operation

In 2017, Vortex completed a large project with an industrial sand manufacturer to construct a new sand processing facility.

January 21, 2019

Part 3: Vortex Titan Series & Loading Solutions Assist at a Large Industrial Sand Operation

In 2017, Vortex completed a large project with an industrial sand manufacturer to construct a new sand processing facility.

December 21, 2018

Part 2: Vortex Titan Series & Loading Solutions Assist at a Large Industrial Sand Operation

In 2017, Vortex completed a large project with an industrial sand manufacturer to construct a new sand processing facility.

November 27, 2018

Part 1: Vortex Titan Series & Loading Solutions Assist at a Large Industrial Sand Operation

In 2017, Vortex completed a large project with an industrial sand manufacturer to construct a new sand processing facility.

November 28, 2018

Seal Tite Diverter Handling Paper Towel and Toilet Paper Rolls

The diverters are handling end cuts and off-spec rolls created during the paper product manufacturing process. The majority of rolls are conveyed vertically through the “straight-through” channel.

October 23, 2018

Titan Slide Gate Provides a Solution for Waste Management

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.

October 23, 2018

Loading Spout Handling Glass Frit Blend

The client sourced two Vortex Loading Spouts to interface the discharge of each bulk bag unloader with the loading port of each ball mill.

October 23, 2018

Roller Gate Handling Green Coffee Beans

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™.

September 25, 2018

Orifice Gates Handling Plastic Pellets

These Vortex Orifice Gates are specifically designed for outdoor installation. To address the possibility for moisture in outdoor environments, the gates were equipped with PET pressure plates.

September 25, 2018

Roller Gates Assist in the Production of Horse Feed

In spring 2018, Vortex and Rate Technology, Inc., a Vortex equipment sales representative, consulted with a horse feed producer to assist with a process need.

August 29, 2018

Vortex Assists Sanitation Efforts at a Waste-to-Energy Facility

In 2007, a county sanitation district approached Vortex to discuss a process need in their waste-to-energy power plant.

August 26, 2015

Dual Cylinder Roller Gate Handling Pet Food

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.

July 9, 2015

Pivoting Chute Handling Silica Sand

In this case, the Vortex pivoting chute diverter is being used as a “splitter” diverter – allowing material to flow from one source to two destinations at the same time.

April 24, 2015

Sanitary Pivoting Chute Handling Sugar

Diverter modified for sanitary application made of 304 stainless steel with an internal 32 Ra finish. It is actuated by a special stainless steel air cylinder that contains internal position switches.

April 24, 2015

Dual Blade Roller Gate Handling Bulk Bag Chocolate

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.

April 21, 2015

Orifice Gates for Bulk Rice Flour

The Orifice Gates were installed below product bins, and above rotary airlocks. Stainless, round-to-square transitions were supplied to match the bolt pattern on the airlock.

January 15, 2015

Vortex Rounded Blade Gates (RBGs) Assist at a Grain Elevator

Two Vortex Rounded Blade Gates were manufactured from 304 stainless steel to offer corrosion resistance from the material being handled.

January 7, 2015

TSG Slide Gate with Fail Safe Tank

Slide gate was equipped with an Infinite Variable Positioner and an air “fail safe” closed assembly.

December 2, 2014

Titan Series Slide Gate – Double Dump

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.

October 1, 2014

Mining Slide Gate Valve for Abrasive Crushed Ore

A Canadian gold mine utilizes a mining slide gate valve for handling abrasive crushed ore. Each side frame in the flow of material has a chromium carbide rock box to safeguard against wearing.

September 4, 2014

Engineered Solutions: Custom Double Roller Gate

Two independent Roller Gates sharing a common side frame with two 16×30″ blades and special service inlets.

February 7, 2020

Titan Aggregate Gate Handling Rice

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.

February 6, 2020

Titan Rounded Blade Diverter Handling Cement

The Vortex Titan Rounded Blade Diverter is a combination of two Vortex Rounded Blade Gates. The Rounded Blade Diverter features independent actuation for each blade.

January 21, 2020

Large Titan Maintenance Gate to Handle Cement

The Vortex Titan Maintenance Gate is designed to handled abrasive, dry bulk materials.

January 14, 2020

Vortex Roller Gates Offer Long Life Handling Grain

In 1996, Vortex worked with Alltech, an animal health company in Kentucky, to assist with the handling of grain at their facility.

January 10, 2020

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.

December 12, 2019

Pivoting Chute Diverters with Chute Assist Rods Handling Metal Alloys

A major advantage of the Vortex Titan Pivoting Chute Diverter is the fact that internal inspection or maintenance can be performed without having to remove the diverter from place.

December 9, 2019

Round Titan Maintenance Gate Handling Cement

The Vortex Titan Maintenance Gate features an extremely narrow profile for limited space installations. Additional features include lifting lugs, visual indicators, and a safety bonnet cover.

November 26, 2019

Vortex In-Line Filter - Model 70

The Vortex In-Line Filter will be installed above a Vortex telescoping loading spout and is designed to minimize product loss and prevent dusting to atmosphere.

December 5, 2019

Controlling the Vortex Pivoting Chute Diverter

This Vortex 3-way Pivoting Chute Diverter features chromium carbide wetted parts to protect the interior from extreme, abrasion and wear.

December 3, 2019

Roller Gates and Seal Tite Diverters Handling Coffee Beans

Vortex Roller Gates and Three-Way Seal Tite Diverters were implemented in a conveying system to support the movement of green and roasted coffee beans.

November 6, 2019

Iris Valve Handling Flour

In this particular case, the client required an extended handle that could be accessed through a tight space.

December 2, 2019

Vortex Titan Maintenance Gate Handling Cement

The Vortex Titan Maintenance Gate features an extremely narrow profile for limited space installations. Additional features include lifting lugs, visual indicators, and a safety bonnet cover.

November 27, 2019

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.

November 11, 2019

Stacked Fill Pass Diverters Handling Flour

The client utilized sets of three stacked Vortex Fill Pass Diverter valves. These valves are specifically designed to be stacked on top of one another.

November 8, 2019

Loading Spout Handling PET Plastic Flake

Installed in 2010, this spout has been utilized on daily basis since installation to gravity transfer PET plastic flake from a storage silo into enclosed, dry bulk semi-tankers.

October 30, 2019

Loading Spout Handling Fly Ash

Four Vortex loading spouts were manufactured with special 48" tube extenders above the telescoping portion of the spout assembly.

October 25, 2019

Vortex Pivoting Chute Diverter Handling Glass Cullet

This Vortex 3-way Pivoting Chute Diverter features an inlet chute, pivoting chute, and replaceable outlet wear liners constructed of chromium carbide to address extreme wear from the material handled.

October 17, 2019

Vortex Titan Slide Gates Handle Sulfur Prill

Vortex Titan Slide Gates (TSGs) are designed to meet the most demanding applications when handling heavy-duty, abrasive materials.

October 9, 2019

Vortex Telescoping Loading Spouts Handling Individual Feed Ingredients

Six Vortex Telescoping Loading Spouts are equipped with double layer, trapezoidal shaped dust skirts that encompasses the peak of the material pile.

October 1, 2019

Vortex Titan Aggregate Diverter Provides Solutions

This Vortex Aggregate Diverter features a bucket style blade constructed of abrasion resistant steel (400 BHN). The blade contains a honeycomb “rock box” that initially traps the material.

September 26, 2019

Vortex Titan Pressure Valves Handling Abrasive Dust and Sticky Particulates

With a requirement to handle abrasive dust and sticky particulates and a system temperature up to 350 C, the Vortex TPV incorporates cast ductile iron flanges with a hardened 440C stainless steel.

September 18, 2019

Vortex Titan Dual-Blade Clamshell Gate Handling Hot Briquetted Iron

This hydraulically actuated Vortex Dual-Blade Clamshell Gate features a blade made of .19 mm (3⁄4”) abrasion resistant steel (400 BHN).

September 12, 2019

Titan Lined Multi-Port Diverter Handling Sand and Cement

This Vortex Multi-Port Diverter features three 2-way Titan Lined Diverters connected by fabricated chutes.

September 8, 2019

Vortex Products Assists at a Large Roofing Granules Facility

Vortex equipment representative, Ball Sales & Engineering, provided a roofing granules processor with bulk material handling solutions.

July 10, 2019

Vortex Roller Gate Handling Sludge

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.

July 5, 2017

Iris Valve Handling Powdered Drink Mix

Vortex Iris Valves can be constructed from a number of material contact options, including aluminum, anodized aluminum, stainless steel, Teflon, and more.

July 10, 2017

Loading Spouts Handling Industrial Sand

Transloading, the process of utilizing different shipping methods to transport and deliver material, makes incredible sense in the sand industry.

July 18, 2017

Orifice Gate Handles Carbon Black

The client sourced a Vortex Orifice Gate for use on a carbon black extrusion line. In order to create plastic pellet, the client fills a bag dump station with carbon black.

July 27, 2017

Vortex TPV Saves Time Distributing Rock Ballast

Vac-It-All is a St. Louis-based company that specializes in the preparation of roof surfaces. Founded in 1979, they have completed a wide range of projects for multi-level and industrial buildings.

August 1, 2017

Seal Tite Diverter Handling LCD Screen Materials

In 2003, a customer approached a Vortex representative regarding special application requirements for several Roller Gates. The gates needed to be a custom, rectangular shape.

August 8, 2017

Loading Spout Assist in Copper Smelting Process

To mitigate the dust created and emitted during the loading process, the skirt flares out over top of the material pile to trap dust as it is being removed by vacuum pull to a dust collector.

August 15, 2017

Maintenance Gate Handling Solvent/Talc Mixture

The customer currently has six Vortex Maintenance Gates installed in their manufacturing system, with an extra gate on-hand for rotation into their process.

September 13, 2017

Pivoting Chute Diverter Handling Steel Additives & Alloys

Wetted parts are 3/4 in. (19 mm) thick. Wetted parts contain 3/8 in. (9.5 mm) thick, abrasion-resistant liners constructed from chromium carbide. Purpose of liners is to address material abrasiveness.

September 13, 2017

Wye Line Diverter Handling PVC Resin

Find a solution to divert PVC resin toward several extrusion lines, while minimizing wear and abrasion at the valve.

September 13, 2017

Roller Gates Handling Dry Grains in Whiskey Distillery

Three Roller Gates are installed outdoors below a screw conveyor. They are installed at different points along the conveyor, serving as gates above three separate silos.

September 13, 2017

Vortex Engineered Solutions Assist Across Industries

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.

October 19, 2017

Wye Line Diverter Handling Polymer Pellets

Pneumatically convey polymer pellets from a screener into either of two quality assurance tanks.

October 19, 2017

TLD Diverter Handling Wood Chips & Saw Dust

Receive wood chips and saw dusts from a screener above, then divert them toward two destinations.

November 1, 2017

Quantum Orifice Gate Handling Pizza Ingredients

This Quantum Series Orifice Gate includes many optional features that are typical in food-grade applications.

November 1, 2017

Vortex Loading Spout with Elongated Hatch Handling Industrial Sand

The Vortex Hatch Adapter effectively covers the rectangular opening and confines airborne particles created during the loading process.

November 22, 2017

Multi-Port Diverter & Wye Line Diverters Assist with Donut Production

Pneumatically convey various grades of flour from two sources toward any of eight destinations, for packing.

November 22, 2017

Roller Gates with Infinite Variable Positioners (IVPs) Handling Corn

Discharge corn from three silos above into one screw conveyor. Provide a solution that allows total volumetric flow control, for precise batching in an outdoor application.

November 22, 2017

Seal Tite Diverter Handling Pet Food

Source a solution that best prevents in-line contamination. Provide more access to the diverter’s internal, to better accommodate frequent wash-down and improve ease of in-line maintenance

November 28, 2017

TPV Gates Assist in Loading Minerals into Sea Containers

These Vortex TPV Gates are designed to handle abrasive materials in a dense phase pneumatic conveying process. In this client’s application, line pressures are approximately 35-40 psig.

November 28, 2017

Quick Clean Orifice Gate Handling Whey Protein

Find a solution for stopping flow of materials in a gravity flow application that requires frequent wash-down.

December 28, 2017

Vortex Quantum Series Assists in the Production of Plastic Tableware

Since 2007, Vortex has been providing a U.S. plastics company with solutions for transporting plastic materials throughout their production facility.

December 28, 2017

TLD Diverters Handling Animal Feed

Divert raw grain materials from one source toward three destinations, to be pelletized for animal feed.

January 30, 2018

HDPV2 Gate Handling Dry, Colored Pigment

In this specific application, the Vortex HDP Gate is used to convey dry pigments from a weigh bin into a mix tank to create liquid ink by a printing company.

January 30, 2018

TSG Gates Handling Industrial Sand

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.

February 13, 2018

Vortex Seal Tite Diverters Handling Pet Food Kibble

The Vortex® Seal Tite Diverter™ is designed so that the leading edge of the blade actuates into a recessed area.

February 22, 2018

Vortex® Aggregate Gate™ & Vortex® Titan Slide Gate™ (TSG) Assist in Producing Cement Mortar Mixes

Each Vortex Aggregate Gate is installed below a surge hopper and is used to feed fine sand materials into a mixer.

February 23, 2018

Vortex Loading Spout Handling Fertilizer

This Vortex retractable loading spout is being used at a barge transload facility to convey finished fertilizers

February 26, 2018

Vortex Quick Clean Gate Handling Ground Cheese

The Vortex Quick Clean Gate is critical to any sanitary manufacturing process, and especially to Food & Beverage industries.

March 5, 2018

Vortex Gravity Vee Diverter Handling Thermoplastic Polyurethane (TPU) Elastomer

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...

March 7, 2018

Vortex Roller Gate Handling Coffee Creamer

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.

March 28, 2018

Titan Slide Gate (TSG) Handles Slag

The client sourced multiple Vortex Titan Slide Gates (TSGs) to facilitate the bagging of material.

April 6, 2018

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.

April 10, 2018

Vortex Response to Transit Error Gains a Loyal Customer

Vortex gates and diverters are used to handle grains, malts and hops throughout the facility. The customer had previously sourced a few Vortex products, but had never placed an order this large.

April 30, 2018

Vortex Loading Spout Handling Biosolids

Vortex loading spouts can be manufactured to address abrasive, hazardous, and even food-grade applications. For more information, please contact us.

May 21, 2018

The Gateway to a Better Conveyor

In August 2015, one of the representative groups for Vortex Global approached Vortex regarding a customer issue with the valving used to shut off material in a finished cement pressure transfer line.

May 22, 2018

Gravity Vee Diverter Handling Baking Flour

The diverter’s dual cylinder gate design is intended for use in limited space installations. By side-mounting the actuators, a gate’s overall length is shortened by 1/3.

May 22, 2018

Vortex Global Provides Process Solution for Chemical Company

Based in Cheshire, UK, Tata Chemicals Europe is one of Europe’s leading producers of sodium carbonate, salt and sodium bicarbonate, among other products.

June 26, 2018

Vortex Field Service Visit Creates Lasting Relationship with Limestone Processor

After working through these issues alongside a Vortex field service technician, this limestone processor was very impressed by the intimate customer service Vortex provided throughout the process

June 27, 2018

Seal Tite Diverter Handling Bird Seed

Now 15 years later, this bird seed processor’s Seal Tite Diverters are still in service, and the client is just as pleased with their performance.

June 28, 2018

Hareza Technical Sales, Inc. & Vortex Assist in a Steel Mill

In 2015, Hareza Technical Sales, Inc. – a manufacturers’ representative for Vortex – was contacted by an engineering firm to discuss an upcoming process need they had.

July 18, 2018

Vortex Slide Gates Prove their Longevity at APCO Packaging

Since 1994, APCO has consulted Allen/Davis Technology Representatives, an equipment representative for Vortex, to find many other applications for Vortex products within their facility.

July 18, 2018

Adams Industrievertretungen & Vortex Assist in a Coffee Roasting Plant

In 2016, Adams Industrievertretungen – a representative agent for Vortex – was approached by a systems group to discuss a new original equipment manufacturer (OEM) opportunity.

July 18, 2018

HDPV2 Handling Cement Powder

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.

August 20, 2018

Vortex & Flo-Dynamics Components, Inc. Nurture a Long-Standing Relationship with a Chemical Supplier

For 18 years, Vortex and Flo-Dynamics Components, Inc. have nurtured a long-standing customer relationship with an East Coast, USA-based chemical supplier.

July 5, 0207

Vortex Multiport Diverter Assists PPG in the Production of Agilon

PPG invested millions of Euros toward a very complex conveying project in one of its silica plants. The plant is responsible for the production of Agilon®

July 3, 2017

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.

July 3, 2017

TLD Diverter Handling Iron Ore Fines

July 3, 2017

Seal Tite Diverter Handling Metallic Powders

Provide a diverter capable of sealing fine metal powders

July 3, 2017

Roller Gate Handling Wood Char for Charcoal Briquettes

Control the flow of wood char from a holding silo, located above a truck loadout

May 3, 2017

Vortex Maintenance Gate Handling Corn Flour

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.

May 3, 2017

Wye Line Diverter Handling Rice

Vigo Importing Company in Tampa, Florida utilizes the Vortex Wye Line Diverter to pneumatically convey rice from two hoppers into six different packaging stations

May 1, 2017

Flex Tube Diverter & Wye Line Diverter Handling Coffee

Incorporate Flex Tube & Wye Line Diverters into a pre-existing, pressurized conveying system to support the movement of whole coffee beans and coffee grounds.