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56 / March 2020 powderbulk.com Supplier offers custom flighting, auger manufacturing Supplier offers custom augers with sectional flighting to exact spec- ifications for industrial and agri- cultural applications. Supplier can form and fabricate custom augers with various options for flighting sizes, pitches, and styles. Supplier's options include sectional flighting from 4 to 18 inches in diameter; the ability to set the flighting to the pitch (from undersized to full pitch); solid or tapered flighting; spun and mounted either left- or right-handed; and shaft sizes of 2 inches diameter and larger. APEC, Lake Odessa, MI 616-374-1000 www.apecusa.com PRODUCT NEWS Multi-ingredient handling system offers automated recipe combination for plastics compounding Add-A-Lot multi-ingredient han- dling system is a flexible and mod- ular container system for automated recipe combination within a com- pounding machine for plastics. Sys- tem has a feeding station with inter- mediate bulk containers, feeding unit, and mixing container. System controls transport of centrally stored components in both directions as well as precise feeding and mixing of additives, even in minute quan- tities. System also accepts mobile containers for added ingredient flexibility. System's controls are inte- grated into the supplier's production control center or wood plastic com- posites control systems, allowing for recipe management, production planning, storage administration as well as batch tracing and docu- mentation using barcodes or RFID, among other capabilities. Coperion K-Tron, Sewell, NJ 856-256-3175 www.coperion.com PEOPLE NEWS Kalenborn Abresist Corp. has announced that Russ Bauer is national sales manager as of January 1, 2020. In addition, James Dunchuck is regional sales manager as of Jan- uary 6, 2020. The company, Urbana, IN, designs and supplies wear and abrasion-resistant linings and coat- ings for processing equipment. Bauer has full responsibility for the company's North American sales operations. He first joined the com- pany in 1980, starting in the shop while attending school. He then became a sales engineer in 1984 and regional sales manager in 2016. Dunchuck is a sales professional with more than 25 years of experi- ence in the markets that the com- pany serves. He has responsibility of the Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and Kentucky sales territory. Erich Netzsch GmbH & Co. will appoint Paul Netzsch as a member of the Executive Board on April 1. Eventually, along with other board members Moritz Netzsch and Jens Niessner, Paul will help manage the company as part of a three-member body. According to the company's plans, he'll have no departmental responsibilities this first year and will use the time to gain in-depth knowledge of the company. The new appointee has two master's degrees, one from the University of St. Gallen and one from the CEMS Interna- tional Management Program in Bar- celona, Spain, along with a variety of additional management experience in a medium-sized family enterprise.