Flexicon (Europe) Ltd
About us
Flexicon Corporation is a world leader in the design and manufacture of bulk handling equipment and custom-engineered and integrated plant-wide systems. Flexicon products range from individual equipment to automated systems that source bulk material from interior and exterior plant locations, transport it between process equipment and storage vessels, weigh it, blend it, feed it to packaging lines, extruders, molding machines and storage vessels, and load it into railcars and trailers.
Choose from a broad range of reliable, high performance equipment in carbon steel with durable industrial finishes, or in stainless steel designed and constructed to industrial, food, dairy or pharmaceutical standards:
Flexible Screw Conveyors
Pneumatic Conveying Systems
Tubular Cable Conveyors
Bulk Bag Fillers
Bulk Bag Dischargers
Bulk Bag Conditioners
Weigh Batching Systems
Manual Dumping Stations
Drum/Box/Container Dumpers
Products
Flexible Screw Conveyors
Flexicon flexible screw conveyors offer efficiency and versatility, conveying bulk materials ranging from large pellets to sub-micron powders—both free-flowing and non-free-flowing -including difficult-to-handle products that pack, cake, seize, fluidise, plug, or smear - with no separation of blended products. Whereas many conveyors have limited angles of incline and/or straight-only conveying paths, Flexicon flexible screw conveyors can move material vertically, horizontally, or at any angle.
Drum, Box & Container Tippers
Flexicon's dust-free TIP-TITE® Container Dumpers and Open-Chute Container Tippers accommodate popular sizes of drums, boxes and other containers used for storage and shipment of bulk solid materials. All are offered in mild steel with durable industrial finishes, with stainless material contact surfaces, or in all-stainless models finished to food, dairy, pharmaceutical or industrial standards.
BLOCK-BUSTER® Hydraulic Bulk Bag Conditioners
Flexicon BLOCK-BUSTER® Hydraulic Bulk Bag Conditioners (also known as FIBC, Big Bag and Jumbo Bag Massagers) loosen bulk solid materials that have solidified during storage and shipment, enabling bulk bag unloaders to discharge the material through bag spouts. These conditioners are recommended for bulk bags containing hygroscopic chemicals, certain types of spice blends, heat-sensitive products, and other materials prone to solidifying to the point at which pneumatically-actuated flow promotion accessories integral to bulk bag dischargers are inefficient or completely ineffective. BLOCK-BUSTER® Hydraulic Bulk Bag Conditioners are available integrated into bulk bag unloading frames, or as self-standing units. Both configurations utilize two hydraulic rams with specially contoured end plates to press opposing sides of bulk bags.
BULK-OUT® Bulk Bag Dischargers
Flexicon's latest generation of bulk bag dischargers can eliminate the drawbacks of outdated designs while dramatically improving convenience, safety and cleanliness. The heart of the new design is a bag spout interface that not only creates a dust-tight seal, but promotes material flow and total evacuation. It also allows easy retying of partially empty bags, and can collapse empty bags—free of spillage and dust.
BULK BAG FILLERS
Only half of your bulk bag filling depends on holding, inflating, densifying, and weighing your bulk bags correctly. The other half depends on delivering material to your filler with extreme dependability and consistency. Whether your products are free- or non-free- flowing — or prone to pack, cake, plug, fluidize or separate — your system must deliver them at high rates for rapid filling, as well as steady dribble-feed rates for highly accurate weighments. Flexicon offers everything you need for complete bag filling success: an economical base unit with comprehensive options to meet your precise requirements at low cost; and a custom engineered material delivery system integrated with your new or existing process equipment or other material source
BAG DUMP STATIONS
Flexicon bag dump stations (also known as manual dumping stations) collect dust generated when dumping powder and bulk solids from bags, boxes, drums, and other containers, and return the material to the hopper. The system reduces material waste and eliminates the need to clean a remote dust collection site, while protecting workers and preventing plant contamination. All units feature a high-velocity vacuum fan that draws airborne dust away from the operator through two cartridge filters that are sized according to the application.
PNEUMATI-CON® Dilute Phase Pneumatic Conveying Systems
Flexicon's PNEUMATI-CON dilute phase pneumatic conveying systems range from single-point "up-and-in" installations to cross-plant systems with multiple pick-up and discharge points and automated controls, satisfying an exceptionally wide range of bulk conveying applications. All are custom-engineered and fully integrated with other Flexicon equipment and systems, and your new or existing process.
WEIGH BATCHING SYSTEMS
Whether you are sourcing material from bulk bags, silos, manual dumping stations, process equipment or all of the above; weigh batching one ingredient or 50; blending your recipe; filling containers, and/or delivering it to process vessels, packaging lines, or any other destination, Flexicon has the comprehensive selection of equipment you need for a total weigh batching solution.
FLEXI-DISC® Tubular Cable Conveyors
FLEXI-DISC® Tubular Cable Conveyors (also known as Disc Conveyors and Drag Conveyors) gently slide bulk materials through smooth stainless steel tubing using low-friction polymer discs attached to stainless steel cable. The discs and cable are driven by a wheel at one end of the circuit, and put under tension by a wheel at the other end. This design allows single or multiple inlets and outlets, and the routing of conveyor tubing horizontally, vertically or at any angle, through small holes in walls or ceilings. Because components are modular, inlets and outlets can be added, removed or relocated, and the circuit lengthened, shortened or re-routed as needs change.
SANITARY CONSTRUCTION AND FINISHES
Virtually all Flexicon equipment is available constructed and finished to meet food, dairy and pharmaceutical requirements of industry associations and governmental agencies worldwide. Flexicon sanitary equipment can be constructed almost entirely of 304 or 316 stainless steel and finished to Flexicon sanitary standards, or customer-specified requirements. Product contact areas include continuous welds, ground smooth and flush with contiguous walls, with available finish levels up to mirror finish. Wash down control enclosures (NEMA 4 or NEMA 4X) and motors allow fast, thorough wash down using steam, cleaning solutions and high pressure water, with no adverse effect on equipment.
COMPLETE CONTROLS AND AUTOMATION SERVICES
The Flexicon Controls and Automation Department matches state-of-the-art control technologies with Flexicon's full-scale fabrication capabilities. Flexicon will specify, design, build, and test control systems that ensure maximum equipment productivity while adhering to each customer's requirements.
Large-Scale Engineered, Integrated Bulk Handling Systems
Drawing from over 50 years of experience and 25,000 installations, the Project Engineering Division can assume single-source responsibility for your entire project, taking the risk and uncertainty out of coordinating multiple suppliers, while backing your system with Flexicon's coveted Lifetime Performance Guarantee.