Silver Dollar City initially contacted Screw Conveyor Parts (SCP) to supply a single flight screw and trough.
Category: Screw Conveyor Applications
Screw conveyors and feeders are great choices for conveying and feeding a wide variety of powder bulk materials. Applications can vary from conveying feed and grain at a feed mill to feeding potash out of a storage silo.
Conveying salt in a screw conveyor is a very common application. Screw conveyors are well suited for the salt industry because they are sealed to keep contaminants out, product in and heat and steam contained.
Klausner Lumber contacted SCP with the need to conveyor saw dust from a dust collector rotary airlock to a storage container.
There was a time, many years ago, that the presence of nescience dust in the air was considered a normal part of any bulk material handling and processing operation.
The frac sand blender on the drill site of a modern oil and gas fracking operation is used to blend the proppant with the various chemicals and fluids required to prop open the underground fishers and allow for the extraction of the intended product.
Feed and Grain is one of the oldest, and most well documented applications for screw conveyors. It is estimated that up to 60% of the total screw conveyor market is in feed and grain and with the explosion in new feed mill builds over the last ten years, this number is growing.