Stretching back to the late 1970s, we've provided integrated solutions with various manufacturing principals to engineering firms, OEMs, transportation companies, direct producers and contracting partners in the Northwest — from Penner & Associates through Ketcham Equipment and now Flow Engineering. If you have bulk handling equipment on site, it's very likely our legacy has provided some portion of it — and we possibly still have the drawing and information on it.
We've worked with PEBCO, CST, Hapman, Laidig and several others in the past, so we're comfortable partnering with different companies and integrating with various manufacturers and systems when it's best for the customer.
Belt, bucket, drag chain and tubular drag conveyors; shaftless, heated and specialty screw conveyors, feeders and live bottoms; ribbon and paddle screws, vertical screw elevators; dilute, semi-dense and dense-phase pneumatic conveying, air slides and blend/convey systems.
Dustless loading spouts with vision-guided spout-positioning automation, bulk bag fillers, rail and truck unload systems, transloaders (stationary and mobile), bulk bag unloaders, bag dump stations, rotary airlock feeders, slide and curved blade gates, and gravity or pneumatic diverters.
Field-erected bolted tanks and silos from 10 to 150 ft. diameter for dry bulk or liquid storage (industrial, municipal, fire protection, petroleum, chemical), dome and flat roof systems, surge hoppers and day bins, aeration systems, live and aerated bin bottoms, bridge breakers, skirted clarifying tanks, and wave-technology reclaim systems for silo, tank, bin, ship, truck or room applications.
Trade-certified belt scales and weigh belt feeders, loss-in-weight and gain-in-weight systems, volumetric feeders, point and continuous level sensing (rotary paddle, capacitance, vibratory, radar, yo-yo), load cell and strain gauge systems, and cloud-based or on-site inventory management platforms.
Rotary and vibratory sifters, air classifiers, classifying mills, rotormills and rotordryers, hammermills, fine grinders and lump breakers for size reduction, separation and drying.
Bin vents, filter receivers, baghouses, compact filter and ventilation modules with bag-break detection; electromagnetic and permanent magnet separators, drum and grate magnets and head pulleys; automatic sampling across inline, rotary, gravity, belt and pneumatic-line collection points.
Panel design and construction, PLC/HMI programming, and automation and control architecture for the equipment and systems we design and integrate.
Team-perspective design and integration of complete operations and facility sections, from initial requirements through commissioning.
Acting as Owner Representative, delivering highest-value layout and operations design using a structured process that integrates industrial engineering principles with products and processes driven by customer-defined value.
Sanitary, washdown, hygienic and FDA-compliant equipment and system design for food and beverage operations, drawing on the same manufacturer relationships and industrial engineering approach used across the rest of our line card.
Industrial engineering bulk handling systems design — acting as Owner Representative through a structured, team-based process.
Particle size reduction, feeding and separation — rotary airlock feeders, lump breakers, hammer mills, IPEC rotor mill, air classifying mills, centrifugal sifters, vibratory screeners.
Weigh feeders, belt scales, loss-in-weight & volumetric — hygienic & sanitary weigh belts, continuous & batch loss-in-weight feed systems.
Stainless steel equipment for food processing — fabricated stainless products, container/cart dumpers, bulk bag fillers & unloaders, sanitary belt conveyors, bucket elevators.
Venture Measurement companies — AccuBin® cloud-based inventory management, Bindicator® point & continuous level measurement, and Kistler-Morse® weighing solutions — also support food-grade inventory and in-process weighing applications. See the Manufacturers page for details.
As a direct representative of the manufacturer, we fill the gaps customers or partners need — flights, belt conveyor components, a single piece of equipment, full assemblies, or a complete section of a facility.
We approach projects from a team perspective — working with the customer and partners to clarify priorities, define requirements and design the optimal solution for the highest total value.
Industrial engineering looks at the complete operation — people, processes and controls, not just equipment — so quality, safety and reliability stay in scope.