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We can help you at every stage of your powder handling process, streamlining your operations, improving product quality and helping you increase your margins.
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Through the decoupling of manufacturing processes, we are able to create flexible, safe and agile production facilities that enable manufacturers to produce better products with a wider variety and batch sizes. These factors ultimately make manufacturers with Matcon powder handling solutions more profitable and successful.
With industry-leading powder handling equipment, including our patented Cone Valve Technology, we can overcome all manner of powder flow problems.
Solve and prevent poor flow that is caused by powder bridging.
Ratholing can lead to costly powder flow problems.
Meet hygiene and safety requirements and remove the risk of cross-contamination.
Overcome the segregation of your powder mix to ensure you achieve mass flow.
If you’re experiencing any of these powder flow problems or have similar challenges with bulk solids, visit ‘powder handling problems solved’ where we discuss typical causes for each powder flow problem and provide practical advice to help you solve those problems.
Matcon designs and manufactures powder handling equipment that can be used to improve manufacturing processes across a range of applications. At the heart of our Powder Handling System is an IBC fitted with our patented Cone Valve Technology, a unique discharge valve that eliminates typical powder flow problems.
What is an IBC?
An IBC or Intermediate Bulk Container is a precision engineered, high-grade stainless steel container that enables manufacturers to blend and transport powders between manufacturing steps.
What does it enable?
IBCs enable manufacturers to decouple processing stages so that multiple processing steps can be undertaken simultaneously without pausing the production process.
What is a Cone Valve?
A Matcon IBC has a ‘passive’ cone seated within the outlet of the container. When located on the Discharge Station, an ‘active’ probe assembly lifts the cone which creates an annular gap causing material to discharge using mass-flow.
Why it is Important
It is a superb discharging device overcoming all manner of powder flow problems. The lifting action of the cone breaks up bridged product and prevents material from rat-holing and causing material segregation.To ensure that products perform to the highest standards, we follow a series of industry directives including:
What does it enable?
Learn how the IBC and Cone Valve works together to precisely and quickly discharge powders.
See how the Cone Valve prevents materials handling issues such as rat-holing, bridging and powder segregation.
Watch the Cone Valve and see how easy it is to discharge materials from our IBCs to the next processing stage.
Materials, environment, humidity and powder characteristics all play a huge part in influencing how powders will behave during blending, packing or even in transit. Our state-of-the-art test centres give you the opportunity to experiment with your product mixes in our equipment.
Our state-of-the-art Test Plants are designed to simulate actual working conditions using your individual recipes, giving you peace of mind that your test results represent real world operations.
Full-scale equipment capabilities including Near-Infrared (NIR) spectroscopy, allergen swabbing & lab testing equipment.
Full-scale equipment capabilities including blending, formulation & cleaning.
Full-scale equipment capabilities including blending, formulation & cleaning.
Technology is hugely important if you are to remain competitive in today’s climate but technology is not sufficient without the knowledge and experience of how to apply it.
Matcon is in the enviable position of being able to offer both, 35+ years’ experience and the technology. Over the last three decades, we have specified, designed, engineered and installed powder handling systems for clients across the globe. And as the originators of the Cone Valve, we understand the technology better than anyone.
We have the experience and resources to carry out engineering studies and full-scale testing which is invaluable in reducing the risk of purchase. And being part of the IDEX Corporation, Matcon has the global reach you’d expect from a market leader.
When we say ‘powders, handled’ your powder handling requirements really are in safe hands.
Our production volume has almost doubled with the Matcon IBC System. We are no longer using ribbon blenders as the mixing results achieved with the Matcon IBC Blender with High Shear is far better than with the ribbon blenders.
Andrew Gubatan
Plant Manager, F.J.Wegon
Our investment in Matcon’s equipment and expertise to-date has provided a 100% improvement in efficiency due to being able to run our mixer and packing lines in parallel, rather than sequentially.
Mr Henry Bakkejord
Operation Manager, Arne B. Corneliussen AS
“Without a Matcon System, we would not have achieved the significant business growth experienced in the last few years.”
Rupert O’Connell
Owner and Director, RAIN Nutrience
“Matcon will help us to ensure the highest product quality, whilst giving us full flexibility to produce our growing range of products for years to come”
Mehmet Aiguel
Chief Technical Manager
“We can now offer an enhanced product range, better flexibility of pack sizes, along with significantly enhanced quality assurance and customer service.”
Simon Dawson
Operations & Engineering Manager, British Bakels
Over the last 35+ years there aren’t many powder handling problems we haven’t solved, but what many people don’t realise is how many industries we’ve successfully supported over this period.
With 35 years behind us we’ve solved numerous powder handling challenges. Explore our resources section for advice, insights and recommendations all drawn from our experience helping powder handling manufacturers across the globe.
Learn about the challenges we’ve helped our clients overcome, the materials handling equipment we’ve specified and the outcome of the process.
Explore our content resource which contains whitepapers, infographics, checklists and calculators to help you with your day to day powder handling challenges.
Over the years we have seen a wide range of different powder types and production issues that our Cone Valve technology has been able to overcome. This gives us the confidence to believe we can handle any challenge you wish to put to us.
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