Vacuum Conveying:
The Principle
Examples of Conveyed
Materials
Vacuum Conveying:
Cost Example

Our Conveyor Designs
VR - Vacuum Conveyors
PPC - Vacuum Conveyors
Tablet-Conveyors
Vacuum Conveyors
with Inerting Option
Pressure-Proof
Vacuum Conveyors
Vacuum Conveying
inside Explosion-Zones
Vacuum Conveyors
with Weighing and
Measuring Function
Loading and Unloading
Stations for Vacuum
Conveyors
Suction of Liquids

Applications:
Chemicals
Dye-Powder and Pigments
Pharmaceuticals
Tablets, Capsules and
Dragees
Food

Complete Solutions for the
Handling and Processing
of Powders

Inquiry Form for
Vacuum Conveyors

VOLKMANN Vacuum Conveyors and Powder Handling Solutions

Make all powder handling in production processes secure and reliable, make the work of your production staff easier and improve the conditions at the workplace: Choose Vacuum Conveying systems from VOLKMANN. The transport of all sorts bulk materials has never been easier, more user-friendly and safe as with Volkmanns proven Vacuum Conveyor families.

• easy material aspiration and dust-free loading of machines
• gentle conveying, no seperation of material mixtures
• optimum hygiene conditions
• reliable filter systems in GMP quality
• simple to install and to operate
• low energy consumption
• favorable investment- and operating costs

Our different modular families of Vacuum Conveyors for the Chemical-, Pharma- and Food-Industry allow customized modifications of all conveyors regarding the individual application. Even critical materials can be conveyed safely and adapted conveyors can be used for hazardous applications like inside explosion areas or with highly toxic materials. The modular design allows quick delivery times for complete conveyors (2-3 weeks for Food-/Chemical-Conveyors, 6 weeks for Pharma Conveyors).

Most of our conveyors are used in applications with conveying capacities from 100 kg/h up to 3 t/h, where the conveying distance is up to 15 m far and 10 m high. Realized systems have up to 12 t/h capacity and work with conveying distances up to 80 m far and 35 m height.

Upon your request, we implement special features into our Vacuum Conveyors, e.g. attach special flanges, adaptors and mounting elements and cones. Individual sized compressed air driven or electrical Vacuum Pumps can be chosen. All customization is done for the benefit of providing a vacuum conveyor as the best-practice solution for your application.

We offer complete powder handling systems, engineered and built as an integrated solution for your production process, including powder loading- and unloading stations, docking-systems, containment solutions, weighing- and dosing, glove-boxes etc.

Come and contact us! We offer conveying trials and demonstrations on-site or in our test facility in Soest. Along, we analyze your material handling task and the special needs to convey your products inside the local production environment. We want you to be sure, that the required capacity is reached, that your product is not affected in an unacceptable way by the transportation, and convince you of the stability of the vacuum conveying process provided by Volkmann Conveyors.

Please use this inquiry form. This form gives us the main information we need to know about your products and application and is the basis for our first quotation. Feel free to call us - speak with us directly about your conveying task.

The first Vacuum Conveyors according to ATEX!
All new VOLKMANN Vacuum Conveyors of the VR and PPC series are ATEX certified in accordance with directive 94/9/EG for the Explosion Zones 1, 2, 20, 21 and 22.
EC-type examination certificate No. TÜV 02 ATEX 7005 X.
For safe operation special terms/conditions apply.
II 1 D c 80°C / II 2 GD 100°C
Special Conveyors for Zone 0 available.

More information about Vacuum Conveyor for Explosion Zones: Click here.