The group's principal activities are to design, manufacture, market and service gravimetric and volumetric feeders, pneumatic conveying systems and related equipment worldwide. these equipment are used for handling bulk solids in industries such as plastics, food, chemical, pharmaceutical, cement and other manufacturing industries. the group has two main business units: feeder group and pneumatic conveying group. the feeder group produces feeders that control the flow of materials into a manufacturing process by mass or weight (gravimetric) or by volume (volumetric feeding). the pneumatic conveying group integrates two brand names, pcs and colormax and the manufacturing of hurricane product line into one business group capable of addressing a broad range of pneumatic conveying problems. the group markets these products under three brand names: k-tron soder (feeders), pcs (pneumatic conveying equipment) and colormax (ancillary equipment for the