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Flexicon Corporation 2400 Emrick Boulevard Bethlehem, PA 18020-8006 Tel: 888-FLEXICON (888-353-9426) 610-814-2400 Fax: 610-814-0600 E-mail: sales@flexicon.com Web address: www.flexicon.com Date Founded: 1974 Corporate Description Flexicon is a leading worldwide manufacturer of bulk handling equipment and systems that source material from interior and/or exterior plant locations, transport it between in-plant process equip- ment and storage vessels, weigh it, blend it, feed it to packaging lines, extruders, molding machines and storage vessels, and/or load it into railcars and trailers. Flexicon offers administrative, engineering and manufacturing capabilities on four continents, and an extensive worldwide network of applications engineers, authorized representatives and field support technicians to serve you—a unique consolidation of bulk handling specialists with hundreds of years of combined experience. An extensive research and de- velopment program continually sets new standards for equipment performance with entirely new de- signs, product improvements and equipment that complies with certi- fications required by governmental and industry associations for chem- ical, food, dairy and pharmaceutical applications—both nationally and internationally. Facilities Flexicon products are manu- factured on four continents and marketed through eight compa- ny-owned facilities: • Bethlehem, PA, USA: Flexicon Corporation • Kent, England: Flexicon (Europe) Ltd • Brisbane, Australia: Flexicon Cor- poration (Australia) Pty Ltd • Port Elizabeth, South Africa: Flex- icon Africa (Pty) Ltd • Santiago, Chile: Flexicon Chile Ltd • Singapore: Flexicon Singapore Pte Ltd • Barcelona, Spain: Flexicon (Eu- rope) Ltd • Aschaffenburg, Germany: Flexi- con (Europe) Ltd The company's manufacturing facility and world headquarters in Bethlehem, PA, houses administra- tive offices responsible for world- wide operations. The manufacturing area was purpose-built for efficient flow of work-in-process, and includes state-of-the-art pneumatic and mechanical test laboratories (shown above) equipped with full size bulk handling equipment and systems that are readily reconfig- ured and accessorized to simulate customer installations. Using customer-supplied bulk materials, engineers and laboratory technicians can verify system per- formance prior to final equipment design and fabrication, and demon- strate newly constructed equipment for Factory Acceptance Testing. In addition, Flexicon engineers utilize the laboratories to study the perfor- mance of new designs. Markets Served Chemical, food, dairy, pharmaceutical, plastics and packaging industries Major Products • Flexible Screw Conveyors, Tubu- lar Cable Conveyors, Pneumatic Conveying Systems, Bulk Bag Unloaders, Bulk Bag Fillers, Bulk Bag Conditioners, Bulk Bag Weigh Batching and Blending Systems, Bag Dump Stations, Drum/Box/Container Dump- ers, Custom-Engineered and Integrated Plant-Wide Systems. Flexicon PBE A recent expansion doubled the size of Flexicon's manufacturing facility and world headquarters in Bethlehem, PA. Mechanical and pneumatic test laboratories are readily reconfigured and accessorized to replicate customer installations 22 / November 2018 powderbulk.com