Industries

ASPHALT PLANTS

• • Storage hoppers containing limestone and sand
  • Unloading raw materials from railroad hopper cars
  • Batching hoppers

BAKERY PRODUCTS

• Unloading raw materials from truck or hopper cars
• Raw material storage bins
• Hoppers containing various toppings used on biscuits, crackers, cookies, etc.

BATTERY MANUFACTURERS

• Unloading railroad hopper cars containing carbon black and lead oxide
• Storage bins for carbon black and lead oxide

BREWERIES AND DISTILLERIES

• • Unload railroad hopper cars containing grits, cracked or ground grains and various other materials used in making beer and whiskey
  • Unloading coal from hopper cars, if they operate their own power plant
  • Storage bins containing malt, yeast, etc.
  • Expelling gases from bottles before capping
  • Expelling gases from beer vaults before bottling
  • Conveyors moving cans, bottles, etc.
  • Hoppers containing closures such as caps
  • Screening mash in distilleries

CANNING AND PRESERVING FRUITS, VEGETABLES AND SEA FOODS

• Screening and sizing
• Feeding
• Packaging
• Shaking bread crumbs onto various items
• Moving cans along tracks and around curves on conveying systems

CEMENT PLANTS

• Unloading railroad hopper cars
• Storage hoppers
• Precipitators

CHEMICALS AND ALLIED PRODUCTS

• Unloading railroad hopper cars
• Bulk storage bins
• Blending processes
• Screening, separating and sizing
• Feeding chutes
• Finished product storage hoppers
• Packaging and compacting
• Filtering liquid chemicals (coke removal)
• Increasing flow of liquid chemicals through screens

CLAY REFRACTORY MANUFACTURERS

• Unloading hopper cars containing
• raw materials (clay, aggregates, bonding materials, etc.)
• Storage hoppers (usually a large number)
• Screening and sizing raw materials
• Packaging
• Finished product hoppers
• Blending or batching hoppers
• Molding of precast shapes