Buck® Test Station

For immediate release–October 13, 2000

Columbia, MD — Niro Inc. announced today that it will have a Buck® Test Station available from its office in Columbia, MD. This unit allows users to test various products for containment levels in their own facilities, or if preferred tests can be conducted at Niro's Maryland facilities. The Buck® Test Station has the following features:

• Mobile (can be shipped to customer's facility)
• All valves size 8"
• Valve rated for pressures up to 4.5 psig
• Maintains seal against +29 inches of vacuum
• Valves manufactured of 316L stainless steel
• Containers also manufactured of 316L stainless steel
• Available with EPDM elastomers - Kalrez available on special order
• Valves have pneumatic actuators
• Results can be used in design to scale new systems up or down

Buck® Test Station

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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