Application
At iBulk, we deliver advanced screening, separation, and processing solutions tailored to the unique needs of Australia’s leading industries. Explore how our technology drives efficiency, quality, and productivity across a wide range of applications.
Agriculture Screening Solutions
There are many agricultural screening applications, including forestry, milk and dairy, grains, beans and seeds (such as soybeans, oil seeds, corn, wheat, canola, lentils and pellets), and even wool. Agriculture installations worldwide have used industrial screening equipment, and iBulk understands agriculture’s unique sifting challenges: high capacities, precise screenings, and maximum yields.
Let iBulk help you discover which machine is right for your needs.
Key Products: Rotex Screener, Sweco Separator, Vimec Conveyors and iDDS Screeners.
Grain Cleaning, Dehulling, Meal Sifting
Rotex Screeners are the standard for grain cleaning, meeting the demanding specifications of seed cleaning and sizing applications at high process rates with a smaller footprint than other separation technologies. Applications include Cleaning, Dehulling, Meal Sifting, and more, resulting in higher efficiency = higher yield = More Product = High throughput.
Salt
iBulk’s screening equipment is installed at every salt plant in Australia to achieve optimum screening efficiency and throughput.
Sugar
iBulk Screeners ensure that only the highest quality sugar and caster sugar products are achieved. Large capacities are screened on our equipment both for grade and caster sugar.
Fertiliser Screening and Separation
Fertiliser screening and separation is a prime application for iBulk Rotex screeners. Providing precise separation and high-volume production, our screeners stand alone in the fertiliser separation business. They are specifically designed for rapid industrial sifting applications.
Ammonium
Nitrate High capacity quality screening is achieved through the gyratory motion of our screeners. iBulk Products: Rotex Gyratory Screeners, iDDF Direct Drive Feeders and SFH Electromagnetic Feeders.
Urea
Rotex Gyratory Screener and HiCline Screens are regularly used for scalping and sizing Urea. iBulk Products: Rotex Gyratory Screener and HiCline Screens.
Super Phosphate
Superphosphate is a tough product to screen, but the iBulk Rotex Screener can successfully do the job. iBulk Products include the Rotex Gyratory Screener, the iDDF Direct Drive Feeder, and the SFH Electromagnetic Feeder.
Organic Fertiliser
High-capacity Rotex Screeners are widely used throughout the fertilizer industry to remove oversize and fines in processing and warehousing operations. iBulk has supplied equipment to several installations, both for composted materials and kelp-based applications. iBulk Products: Rotex Gyratory Screener and Sweco Separator.
iBulk’s experience in the food industry is invaluable in the design of food screening and separation solutions. iBulk® is uniquely positioned to meet food production, FDA and client requirements for a wide range of food screening applications, and to specify the right machinery for each use case.
Salt Screening
Whether mined or evaporated salt, salt has a wide particle size distribution from coarse sizes to fine crystals used for food preparation. Accurate separation into specified products is a critical processing step and iBulk’s Rotex High Performance Screeners provide the salt separation solution for your specific application’s challenges. Key Product: Rotex Higher Performance Screener
Sugar Screening
Handling the grading and screening of high tonnages of sugar can be a complex task. iBulk Rotex Gyratory Screeners ensure contaminants are removed at the feed, and only the highest quality grade sugar and caster sugar products are achieved. Key Product: Rotex Gyratory Screener
Oil Sifting
Sweco Circular Screeners are frequently employed to separate husks from sunflower or canola oil during extraction. iBulk also supplies equipment in the sifting of hot processing oils used in the food industry. Key Product: Sweco Separator
Chocolate Filtering
High grade chocolate requires precise filtering and this we ensure through the use of our Sweco sifters. Key Product: Sweco Separator
Bread Crumb Processing
Often the bread industry requires the processing of crumb for food additives. We have worked closely with producers in the development of toasting and drying equipment used for this purpose. Key Products: Vibrating Fluid Bed Dryers, Sweco Separator, Rotex Gyratory Sifter
Rice Processing
It’s a fine line between Gourmet and and Garbage. Gourmet rice means no broken grains. Getting the fragile rice grain from the bran without breakage can be tricky, but an iBulk Sweco Separator will achieve fewer breakages, and the easy, clean design means less downtime, resulting in higher grades, higher yields and higher ROI. Key Product: Sweco Separator
Flour Screening
Milled or ground flour, used for baking, typically has a very fine particle size. That’s why flour is scalped in the 10 to 40 mesh range. For screening milled or ground flour, iBulk’s Rotex Gyratory Screeners are easily cleanable screeners that provide a gentle, gyratory motion. Key Product: Rotex Gyratory Screener
Food Screening and Separation
Meat Rendering and Meat Meal Production
A major supplier of screening equipment to the Meat and Bone Meal (MBM) industry, iBulk delivers cost-effective tallow and rendering solutions. It manufactures several Rotex Screener models for handling meat meal and tallow rendering.
Meat Rendering
iBulk Screeners are used in the meat rendering industry to produce top-quality meat meal. Most meat rendering plants use Rotex Gyratory screening equipment to achieve high capacities and consistent sizing. The horizontal gyratory motion of the iBulk Rotex Screener rapidly distributes the meat meal over the entire screen surface and conveys it without vertical vibration or hop. Our Rotex Screeners are designed for easy disassembly and thorough inspection and cleaning. Key Products: Rotex Gyratory Screener.
Tallow Screening
Tallow is a rendered form of animal fats that conforms to specific criteria. iBulk produces both rectangular and round separators and is able to offer a turnkey process that includes the tallow screens to match your specific application and requirements. Key Products: Sweco Separator.
Mining and Minerals
Mechanical screening is a critical component in the mining process, taking granulated raw materials and separating it into multiple grades by particle size. The mining and mineral processing industry uses a variety of screening solutions for a variety of processing applications. Below are typical applications:
Gold
iBulk has expansive experience in the supply of equipment for Gold Heated Leach applications that include Carbon Sizing Screens, Heated Loaded Carbon Screens, Carbon Transfer Sizers & Feeders, and Carbon Dewatering Screens.
iBulk Products: iVIB Linear Screeners, Sweco Circular Separators, and Sieve Bends.
Iron Ore and Coal
Multiple applications exist in this sector including feeding and sizing of ore at plant level through to laboratory sampling equipment.
iBulk Products: iVIB Linear Screeners; SFH Electro Magnetic Feeders; iDDF Direct Drive Feeders, Rotex and Sweco.
Titanium
Most installations are in the heavy mineral sand applications for the purposes of sizing Rutile, Ilmenite and Zircon.
iBulk Products: SFH Electro Magnetic Feeders; iDDF Direct Drive Feeders, Rotex and Sweco, Vibrating Fluid Bed Dryers.
Gypsum
Dry powder screening is mostly done after calcification to ensure consistency of the product. The round separators are also used on the wet in feed product for lump removal.
iBulk Products: Rotex and Sweco Circular Separators.
Frac Sand
Frac sand is used in the fracturing of shale to release natural gas, oil and natural gas liquids from pores in the rock. Frac sand is basically a high-purity, crush-resistant quartz sand with very durable and very round grains.
iBulk Products: Vibrating Fluid Bed Dryers and Rotex.
Bauxite and Alumina Refining
Aluminum is the third most abundant element on earth’s surface. Only oxygen and silicon are more common. Aluminum is extracted from bauxite, which is washed and crushed, reducing the particle size and increasing the available surface area for the refining process. iBulk provides solutions for applications that are required in aluminium production, including dryings and screening of bauxite and screening of alumina powder. Through an electrochemical smelting process Alumina is converted into the aluminium metal.
Bauxite
Screening solutions for raw bauxite, as well as drying of the material before the conversion into alumina powder.
iBulk Products: Vibrating Fluid Bed Dryers, Sweco Separator, Rotex Gyratory Sifter.
Alumina
After the conversion of bauxite to alumina before smelting there are several stages of scalping and lump removal of foreign bodies from the fine particles.
iBulk Products: Rotex Gyratory Screeners, Sweco Separator, SFH Electro Magnetic Feeders; iDDF Direct Drive Feeders
Aluminium
At the smelter there are several processes where iBulk is involved from the green anode, carbon plants to the anode recovery and recycling of carbon. We have supplied to most Australian smelters and several in Asian Pacific and the Middle East.
iBulk Products: iDDF Direct Drive Feeders, iDDF Grizzly Feeders, iDDS Direct Drive Screeners Feeders, iVIB Direct Screens, VIMEC Natural Frequency Conveyors and Magnetic Drum Separators.
Rubber Recycling Screening Solutions
Recycled rubber is typically reclaimed rubber materials from truck and car tyres. Recycled rubber products provide innovative ways to reduce waste, while providing new solutions and applications such as synthetic turf, playground surfaces, low impact floors, mats, bumpers, railroad ties, street furniture such as park benches, and of course rubberised asphalt. Tyre recycling is an economically sound, environmentally friendly activity that can contribute to the reduction of a product’s overall carbon footprint by anywhere from four to 20 percent compared to virgin plastic resins.
After shredding, recycled rubber is screened or separated into different sizes. iBulk’s rubber recycling screening solutions, the Rotex Screeners and the Sweco Separators achieve the best outcomes for this application.
Key Products: Rotex, Sweco, iDDS Screeners.
Solid Removal from Liquids
Solid Removal from Liquids
Liquids Screening and Filtering is a key application for many industry, especially in relation to cleaning waste waters and food production oils.
Laundry Waste Water
Increased municipal environmental standards require laundry waste water have a certain quality before it goes into the sewage system. iBulk offers solutions for screens laundry waste water so plastics, hair, fibres and lint are removed efficiently and reliably prior to water recycling or treatment processes.
Key Products: Sweco Separator
Cooking Oil
Cooking oils can be re-used multiple times, however, frying and cooking residues mean oils require frequent screening.
iBulk’s separators screen high temperature cooking oils, removing lumps and cooking residues from fryers and cookers. Oils are recycled in the process and can be reused, reducing costs and increasing the efficiency of the food production process.
Key Products: Sweco Separator
Recycling Screening Solutions
Recycling is the process of recovering used products and materials to make them into new products. Collected materials are typically sorted, shredded and recovered via a screening and sorting solutions. Many different process and applications exist fro recycling paper, plastics, metals, e-waste, glass, glass cullet and even liquids. iBulk provides solutions for all recycling screening needs.
iBulk Products: Vibrating Fluid Bed Dryers, Sweco Separator, Rotex Gyratory Sifter