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2 Powder and Bulk Engineering, 2011-2012 Corporate Capabilities
Acrison, Inc.
Moonachie, NJ — Facility 1
Corporate Description
Leadership through Innovation
For nearly fifty years, Acrison has
maintained a leadership position in the
application of unique and innovative
technologies for dry solids metering and
handling. Acrison’s user-driven
approach to product development and
equipment design is the guiding
principle to its ongoing success and the
reason that Acrison is a leading global
supplier of high performance volumetric
and gravimetric feeders, continuous
blenders, bin discharging mechanisms,
water treatment packages and related
control systems to processing industries
of every description.
Excellence Through Design and
Engineering
Acrison’s award-winning designs for dry
solids metering/handling equipment are
recognized worldwide as the most
viable, versatile and durable in the
industry. In fact in 2009, Acrison was
the recipient of the very prestigious
Plant Services Readers Choice
designation for delivering the highest
value in Chemical Feed Equipment.
Acrison was specified by MRO
professionals as the supplier they
recognized for providing the highest
value in Chemical Feed Equipment
overall, by delivering a combination of
functionality, durability and low
maintenance, resulting in the lowest
Moonachie , NJ — Facility 2
possible estimated equipment life cycle
costs.
From a wide-range of dry solids multiple
auger metering and hoppering
mechanisms, to ultra high resolution,
calibration and adjustment-free, nonload
cell weighing systems, Acrison holds
hundreds of worldwide patents covering
the majority of its mechanical and
electrical designs. The company
develops, designs and manufactures
equipment that delivers maximum
flexibility, optimum levels of
performance and the lowest cost-of
ownership possible. Acrison systems and
feeders installed over 35 years ago are still
in daily use, continuously metering an
endless variety of products in thousands
of installations across the globe.
Manufacturing its products for
unrivaled longevity and dependability
from the beginning has enabled Acrison
to achieve and sustain the lowest parts
failure rates in the industry ensuring
optimum reliability and maximum
security for your process.
Acrison stands alone in the industry as a
developer, designer and manufacturer of
controls and control systems, ranging
from basic variable speed volumetric
controllers, to advanced microprocessor
weigh feeder controllers, including
Acrison’s new generation SBC-2000
Family of Controllers. This range of
high performance weigh feeder
controllers offers users the latest
technologies and includes numerous
advanced features and functions at far
lower cost than in the past. This new
Family of Controllers have been
designed with an emphasis on
performance, reliability compact size
and ease-of-use.
Acrison also offers a wide variety of
interfacing, networking and
communications options including
Network Gateway used with Profibus
DP and DeviceNet networks, Ethernet
Gateway and Bluetooth Gateway, all
capable of interfacing with up to 32
individual Acrison Weigh Feeder
Controllers. Acrison also offers users the
Acri Data Supervisory Software
package, a Microsoft ® Windows based
program that allows a PC or laptop to
communicate with up to 20 SBC-2000
Family Controllers.
Markets Served
Acrison’s primary markets include the food,
chemical and plastics processing industries.
However, Acrison equipment is applied in
virtually all settings where the accurate
metering of dry solids ingredients is
required, including the mining, pulp, paper
and paperboard, solid propellants, ceramics,
building products and pharmaceutical
markets, to name just a few. In addition,
Acrison expands and applies its industrial
product line to meet the needs of the various
water and waste water treatment industries,
employing field-proven industrially designed
equipment for water treatment processes from
basic chemical feeding and dissolving systems
Typical continuous blending installation