Today it´s hard to imagine industrial logistics without FIBCs.

They are increasingly used even for critical bulk materials which are strongly agglutinated and therefore difficult to discharge.

Sometimes even our usually very efficient rapping or fulling devices don´t help any further...

However even free-flow products may agglutinate during long periods of transport or storage. In many years of practice we were sometimes faced with veritable monoliths that agglomerated inside the bags. Such problems are mainly caused by improper or too long storage of for instance hygroscopic materials such as gypsum, lime, filter dust, or sugar.

As a "first aid" remedy, FIBCs are often dropped from considerable heights or are crashed against a stable wall by means of a forklift. Certainly both methods are not recommended in everyday working routines.

GEL offers a safe and durable solution to this problem (see the figures shown on this page):

Hydraulic pressing devices can break up strong material solidifications, with two crossheads hrizontally acting upon the bag from opposite sides. The crossheads are either permanently installed at a fixed position or can be vertically moved up and down to press against different areas of the FIBCs.

We already managed to realize huge pressing forces of 100 kN (corresponding to a weight of 10 t). To find the optimal solution we recommend to carry out trials with our in-house test equipment. Please contact us for more information!