Extrusion International 6-2016

16 Extrusion International 6/2016 INDUSTRY NEWS Eric Gulnac Named Continuous ImprovementManager at Conair Eric Gulnac, a 21-year veteran of The Conair Group, has been promoted toContinuous ImprovementManager. Inhis newrole, Gulnac will leverage his Conair and plastics industry knowledge to execute cross-functional projects that continue to simplify, streamline, and scale-upConair’s internal capabilities for handling sales, service, and support matters in ways that improve the cus- tomer experience and enhance customer relationships. Since joining Conair in 1995, Eric Gulnac has held a variety positions in shipping and parts sales, as an account manager, and as an independent Conair sales representative cover- ing the Pennsylvania and Eastern New York territories. He helped to start up the Conair BuyNow online store and was named E-Sales Manager in 2009, before being promoted to Director of Inside Sales in 2011. In that capacity, he led the team that handled customer inquiries and quotation for auxiliary equipment and systems sold in North America. He served in the United States Army before joining Conair. “Because of his two decades of experience with Conair and our customers, Eric Gulnac is well suited to take on new re- sponsibilities for optimizing Conair’s customer-facing servic- es,” says Conair President Larry Doyle. “Service and support have always been central to the Conair brand. Now, Eric will lead continuous improvement efforts to enhance the Conair customer experience in every facet of our processes, from ini- tial contact and quoting, to engineering, service, and long- term support.” www.conairgroup.com Eric Gulnac Synutra, one of the most important Chinese producers of baby food, has erected a “greenfield” plant in Carhaix, France. For this purpose Dinnissen has implemented a com- plete dry mix plant. Dinnissen delivered due to their “lean gravity mixing concept” a wholistic concept for 14 T/h baby food, corresponding to the latest technology in the matter of hygiene and quick cleaning. Synutra looked for a mixer with a capacity of 6500 liter, with the highest hygiene requirements. Dinnissen designed a special layout for this, at which the cleaning of the mix- er and the mixer hopper is guaranteed even beneath the wheel-away shafts. They developed a Pegasus ® mixer with a capacity of 6500 liter with big pivoted flaps, that allow an easy access to all components of the mixer that have to get cleaned. Hereby the mixer can get cleaned fast and thor- oughly. In the mixer there are the well-known double shafts, which are rotating contrarious. This creates a fluidized mixing zone and a very homogene mixing result, in short time without product damage and with a minimal energy consumption. Beyond that the mixer is completely made in RVS. The mixer is feeded from six big bag emptying stations with Dinnissen feeder valves. The big bags are conveyed from lev- el 0 to level 4 with a lift, then they are carried to one of the emptying stations. The outside of the big bags gets cleaned at arrival in the hygiene zone. There is also a conveying, dos- ing and bag emptying for microcomponents for dosing them into the mixer. Thera are also a sieve and a metal detector, to guarantee the purity of the product. After that the product can be packed in the packaging line. www.dinnissen.nl Hygienic mixer with pivoted flap