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MAR 2018

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March 2018 www.coalage.com 43 suppliers news continued will surely be an added benefit to the min- ing industry." Managing the JENNCHEM/Quaker alliance will be Quaker's Jim Magro and JENNCHEM COO Fred Stafford. Brian Czartoski, lead chemical applicator with JENNCHEM, will be driving customer ser- vice and product enhancements. KMEC Acquires PICOR KMEC Engineering & Conveying Systems has acquired the assets, trademarks, brand rights, patents and intellectual property of TWE dba PICOR. PICOR is a design and engineering company in bulk material truck and train Precision Loading Systems. PICOR also produces telescoping chutes, mass flow gates, diverter gates, clamshell gates and slide gates. In conjunction, KMEC welcomed Tony Walker, president and head engineer of PICOR, to the KMEC team. Walker is responsible for the develop- ment of patents for multiple batch systems, methods for loading railcars of a wide range of capacities and designs, coal loading sys- tems, and variable height silo charging sys- tems. He is also the designer of the Walker Reclaimer, which revolutionized the stor- age and reclamation of bulk material stock- piles with less equipment and significantly reduced operating costs. He will be working with the team to further develop PICOR de- signs and integrate them into KMEC's com- plete bulk material handling solutions. PICOR will operate inside the KMEC Engineering and Conveying platform, pro- viding and expanding our material flow and loading solutions. "We believe that PICOR will greatly expand both the market reach and total system capabilities of our KMEC business by adding unparalleled ex- pertise in truck and train loading systems, as well as the integration of the new Walker Reclaimer. This is a great step forward for KMEC and Purvis Industries," said Cam- eron Barker, vice president of corporate pperations for Purvis Industries. MSHA Deploys Mobile Technology System for Mine Inspectors The Mine Safety and Health Administra- tion (MSHA) launched its Mobile Inspec- tion Application System (Mobile IAS) to further enhance the efficiency and effec- tiveness of mine inspectors. Nearly 1,500 federal mine inspectors across the nation and enforcement staff will benefit from this new technology. The Mobile IAS replaces an 18-year- old system that required mine inspectors to carry laptops, cameras, reference mate- rial and documentation. The new Mobile IAS integrates all of these features into one application to provide the latest technolo- gies that securely store and transfer data, while improving ease of use. "Enabling mine inspectors to work more efficiently means more time to focus on the health and safety of America's min- ers," said MSHA Assistant Secretary David Zatezalo. "MSHA's Mobile IAS is expect- ed to improve the quality of information by eliminating redundancy, and provide more timely information for inspectors." Among the features of MSHA's Mobile IAS are a Windows-based, lightweight, semi-ruggedized tablet with a camera, video, voice recording, touch screen, dig- ital pen, Bluetooth, and Wi-Fi capability to facilitate data capture and streamline the inspection process; an application built on Microsoft's Universal Windows platform with photo capture and fillable, pre-populated forms; and service-orient- ed architecture for efficient data transfer among devices and the MSHA Standard- ized Information System. Website for Buying Dust Collector Filters Cam fi l APC launched an eCommerce web- site to facilitate the direct purchases of its dust collector fi lters. The site will offer the company's high-performance retro fi t fi lters, the HemiPleat cartridges, compati- ble with most leading dust collector brands. HemiPleat fi lters boost the performance of industrial dust collectors because they use a patented pleating technology that ex- poses more fi lter media to the air stream, the company reported. Due to their ef fi ciency, they need to be changed out less frequently, saving time and maintenance costs. HemiPleat retro fi t fi lters are available in a variety of media including standard, fl ame retardant, carbon impregnated or synthetic fi bers. Visitors to the site can fi nd speci fi c fi lters by entering a part num- ber or selecting their brand and model.

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