THEN&NOW EMT Blending and Bagging

摘要

Fertilizer International is 50 this year.The continuing success of the magazine is built on mutually beneficial partnerships forged over five decades.So, in celebrating our 50th anniversary this year, we will also be profiling a much-appreciated commercial supporter in each issue.This month it is the turn of Netherlands-based blending and bagging equipment manufacturer EMT, a valued long-term advertiser.This remarkable company started life as a local agricultural supplier in north Holland more than 100 years ago.The Dutch have always been an outward-looking enterprising people and the Netherlands has long been renowned for its entrepreneurs, traders and travellers.EMT is a fine modern-day example of this tradition.The company is a family business, now in its fifth generation, with roots in the small agricultural town of’t Zand-literally’the Soil'-in Holland's northern Zijpe region.EMT has been manufacturing major fertiliser blending and bagging equipment for more than 30 years(see timeline).Machines produced at the company's’t Zand factory are exported worldwide.These include a range of blending machines(20-200 t/h capacity), most notably the Weighcont-EMT's proprietary fully automatic continuous declining blender.The largest of the company's batch blenders can process up to 14 tonnes per batch.EMT manufactures small and big bag filling machines, as either portable or fixed units.For convenience and easy transport, the portable units(20-80 t/h)are made in standard 10ft, 20ft or 40ft shipping containers.EMT currently offers around 10 different types of small bagging machines(for 20-50 kg bags)and 12 different big bag machines.