Bulk material handling solutions

for dry chemicals, powder and hazardous products

Select your product of interest below. The UniTrak solutions we describe come from over 35 years’ experience solving the specific handling challenges of your industry.

Powders, Granules, Pellets, Prills
Challenge: Preventing or containing dust during handling. Issues of health and safety, product contamination, product loss, and clean-up/disposal costs.
Solution:

Depending on your application criteria, including your required hours of continuous equipment operation, all three UniTrak conveyor types offer dust containment. This includes the 100% air/gas/dust-tight Monocoque TipTrak™ bucket elevator

Our customers have also chosen the enclosed PEC TipTrak™ bucket conveyor, the dust-tight Powderflight aeromechanical conveyor, or the versatile flexible screw conveyor.

For dust-containment at the bulk bag discharge point, Bagstander™ bulk bag unloader is highly effective, while raising the overall safety and efficiency of the operation.
Blends
Challenge:

Maintain blend consistency. Issues of reduced product quality, production inconsistency, dissatisfied customers, and product re-work or scrap.

Using pneumatic conveying you risk heavier particles in the blend conveying at a different speed than the lighter ones. What goes in may not be what comes out.

Solution:

TipTrak™ or Powderflight The mix of product that goes into the TipTrak™ bucket, or is “caught” between the discs of the Powderflight, is exactly the same when discharged after conveying to the next process. What comes out is what went in.

Enclosed PEC TipTrak™ bucket elevator
Open TipTrak™ bucket elevator
Monocoque TipTrak™ bucket elevator
Powderflight™ aeromechanical conveyor
Friable Products
Challenge: Preventing degradation, caused by unnecessary handling of products (e.g. using a conveyor to transport horizontally, then transferring to an elevator to lift vertically)—or by rough handling (such as pneumatic systems) of products such as shapes, flakes, pellets, capsules or tablets. Issues of reduced quality, scrap, and lost production.
Solution:

TipTrak™ bucket elevators move your product horizontally and vertically without transfer points, with the quietest, gentlest handling of any mechanical conveying device.

We can design/build a bucket elevator to your requirements in one of three models, depending upon your application.

Open TipTrak™, our workhorse standard bucket elevator
PEC TipTrak™, our enclosed bucket elevator
Monocoque TipTrak™, 100% dust-tight bucket elevator
TipTrak™ bucket elevator conveyors
TipTrak™ bucket elevator conveyor FAQ
Fiberglass & "String" Products
Challenge: Prevent product matting. Matted product does not mix well with other products: e.g. in wallboard manufacture.
Solution:

Gentle-handling TipTrak™ bucket elevators move product without inducing matting. The strands of fiberglass retain individual shape and are distributed equally in the final mix.

TipTrak™ bucket elevator conveyors
Open TipTrak™ bucket elevator conveyor
PEC TipTrak™ bucket elevator conveyor
TipTrak™ bucket conveyor FAQ
Abrasive Products
Challenge: Wear-and-tear of production equipment. Issues of higher maintenance costs, and replacement of parts and/or equipment.
Solution:

Abrasion-resistant Nylon® buckets on a tough, low maintenance TipTrak™ bucket elevator. A TipTrak™, with its rubber drive “chain”, requires no lubrication and runs clean. There are no points where abrasives can adhere and accumulate.

TipTrak™ bucket elevator conveyors
Open TipTrak™ bucket elevator conveyor
PEC TipTrak™ bucket elevator conveyor
TipTrak™ bucket conveyor FAQ
Hazardous Powders & Toxic Products
Challenge: Protect personnel during handling. Issues of health and safety.
Solution:

100% dust-tight conveying. Depending on application, our clients have chosen a dust/air/gas-tight TipTrak™ Monocoque bucket elevator with 24/7 operational ability... or a dust-tight Powderflight™ aeromechanical conveyor for intermittent use.

TipTrak™ bucket elevator conveyors
TipTrak™ bucket elevator conveyor FAQ
Powderflight™ aeromechanical conveyor
Powderflight™ aeromechanical conveyor FAQ
Explosives
Challenge: Accident prevention and personnel protection. Issues of safe, gentle product handling; prevention/containment of dust; prevention of spillage; preserving integrity of product blends; reducing maintenance/clean-up time and cost.
Solution:

Dust/air-tight Monocoque TipTrak bucket elevator with conductive bucket belt assembly and continuous electrical grounding.

We are experienced in custom designing and building to the highest specifications for handling TNT, black powder, smokeless powder and propellant.

Gas-tight Monocoque TipTrak™ bucket elevators offer many high-performance attributes to solve the handling issues of explosives, including:

• Gentlest handling of any mechanical conveying device
• Rubber drive “chain”, requires no lubrication and runs clean.
• No points where dust can adhere.
• No heat is generated by continuous conveying.
• Blended product will not separate.
• 100% dust-tight, with no interior ledges or dust traps.
• Bucket system allows isolation of product quantities.
• Continuous electrical grounding—all components
• Spillage-free and low maintenance.

TipTrak™ bucket elevator conveyors
TipTrak™ bucket conveyor FAQ