New Buck® High Pressure Active Valve

For immediate release–September 29, 2000

New Buck® High Pressure Active Valve

Columbia, MD — The latest Buck® innovation in the areas of split-valve technology and containment is the new Buck® High Pressure Active Valve. It has the following characteristics:

• Holds against pressures up to 145 psig
• Maintains +29 inches of vacuum
• Docks with all existing Buck® passive valves
• Available in 4" and 6" sizes
• Manufactured in 316L stainless steel or Hastelloy
• Available with all standard elastomers
• Manual or fully automatic control
• Conical disk with special pressure seal

Buck® split-valve technology allows containers to maintain a dust-tight seal while connecting with (and disconnecting from) intermediate bulk containers and various process equipment such as mills, dryers, blenders, presses, and compactors. The design eliminates contamination of the product or leakage of material that might endanger operators to less than 1 microgram/m³.

Buck® technology is offered in North America by Niro Inc. Niro Inc. is an international company specializing in the manufacture of equipment for the production of materials in powder, granulate, agglomerate, or tablet form. Niro products include spray dryers and coolers, flash dryers, continuous and batch fluid bed processors, rotary presses, evaporators, filtration systems, homogenizers, mixers & one-pot processors, IBCs and powder handling equipment, docking systems & valves, and packaging systems.

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