Dry Bulk Material Handling Solutions
We provide customized solutions for your material handling challenges.
Dry Bulk Material Handling Solutions
We provide customized solutions for your material handling challenges.
About Ketcham Equipment Sales Company
Our Team
Jim Ketcham has served the dry bulk material handling industry since 1995, working for both a manufacturer and as a manufacturers' representative/owner.
Justin Schmidt is an industrial engineer with 20+ years of experience solving companies' process and equipment challenges, managing distribution, and working for manufacturers.
Our Expertise
With almost 30 years of experience in the dry bulk material handling industry, the team at Ketcham Equipment Sales Company has the knowledge and expertise to help you find the right solution for your application. We understand the unique challenges that our customers face and we are dedicated to helping them succeed.
Our Manufacturers
We offer custom solutions for a wide range of dry bulk material handling applications. All of the manufacturers we represent are well-respected, top-tier companies in their respective areas of expertise.
Our Territory
Ketcham Equipment Sales Company proudly serves customers in the Northwest U.S. Our territory of operation includes the States of Washington and Oregon, as well as N. Idaho, W. Montana, and Alaska for some of our manufacturers.
The Manufacturers We Represent
Our Manufacturers' Capabilities
Built from a solid foundation in world-class measurement equipment, AccuBin™ Inventory Management is a silo-level monitoring system brought to you by the makers of Bindicator and Kistler-Morse. Our comprehensive solution as a service joins forces of industry leaders in weight and bulk level measurement. Whether you are trying to minimize costs or reconcile your inventory, the AccuBin smart inventory management system allows you to be proactively track, save costs and build confidence in your inventory data.
Bindicator® offers a full range of point and continuous-level measurement products. Our point-level products are on/off devices with relay or switch outputs. Point-level sensors indicate when material in a vessel is present or absent at a specific point. These durable, simple devices require little to no maintenance and are easy to install and set up. Our continuous-level measurement products monitor the level of material in a vessel continuously as it rises and falls. Bindicator® has a variety of products available.
We know you have choices when it comes to materials conveyance providers. Instead of choosing a supplier, choose a true partner. Cyclonaire will work with you to produce a solution that precisely matches your specifications and materials for dense, semi-dense and dilute phase pneumatic conveying applications. We are known for our best-in-class systems that are safe, clean, efficient and productive.
Since 1981 DCL has been recognized as the industry standard for Dust Control and Bulk Loading Systems. We are an innovative company with in-house research and development, creative designers, experienced engineers, and a state-of-the-art 80,000-square-foot manufacturing facility. DCL has built equipment to handle standard products, like cement, ash, and flour, and other innovative systems to handle more unusual things: rocket fuel, gunpowder, dried slaughterhouse blood, peanuts, cocoa beans, and chili peppers.
We are a global manufacturer of bulk material handling equipment and complete material handling systems. Our process has been proven over thousands of applications, in all major bulk material processing industries. Whether your equipment needs are standard and straightforward or elaborate and controlled, Hapman’s team of applications experts will assist you with any level of needed support. At Hapman, we are more than a material handling systems provider. We are your business partner. We are dedicated to achieving your highest level of trust and satisfaction and earning your confidence in our commitment and expertise.
InterSystems designs and manufactures rugged industrial sampling
systems for a variety of applications. Industrial samplers are used to extract samples of free-flowing materials such as cement, aggregate, wood chips, and minerals. The design and operation of the sampler eliminates issues inherent in hand-sampling methods and
provides representative and repeatable samples. Our samplers can be used in gravity, pneumatic or liquid lines and can be installed in chutes or at
the end and middle of moving belts. Controls and accessories such as collection carousels and PLC interface-capability are available.
Kistler-Morse® designs and manufactures total weighing systems for bulk and in-process applications. Our weighing sensors have the ability to turn vessels into scales and are ideal for conditions ranging from sanitary to rugged outdoor environments. Our offering includes bolt-on sensors, load stands and load cells, single and multi-vessel weighing controllers so that our customers can monitor and provide stable and accurate readings, and dry-bulk inventory management solutions that can gather and transmit real-time inventory data via the Internet. Our products can be found at work throughout industrial and food industries, in virtually every type of vessel.
Laidig excels in providing customized solutions for handling materials with poor material flow characteristics or other special requirements. We are a global leader in designing and building reclaimers to automate the unloading of dry bulk materials. The reliability and sophistication of Laidig's reclaimers have proved to be invaluable for industrial, process-driven applications in industries such as food processing, meals, pulp & paper, wood pelleting, biomass, power, biofuels, ethanol, mining & minerals, cement, and many more.
Prater offers a wide range of particle size reduction, feeding, and separation equipment, such as lump breakers, hammer mills, fine grinders, air classifying mills, rotary sifters, air classifiers, rotary airlock valve feeders, and more. All Prater equipment, parts, and systems are designed and built to provide years of low-maintenance, reliable service. Prater also offers highly skilled and experienced technical services on-site for start-up, troubleshooting, and preventative maintenance.
Tank Connection is the leading bolted tank manufacturer for factory coated bolted storage tanks and aluminum geodesic dome covers for dry bulk and liquid storage applications. We are a vertically integrated company assuring the best products available while maintaining competitive pricing. Tank Connection is an employee-owned company manufacturing American-made products in multiple ISO 9001:2015 Certified QMS facilities in the U.S. We have built a reputation of success with a passion for safety, innovation, and continuous improvement.
Our Manufacturers' Capabilities
Thayer Scale is the pioneering developer of continuous weighing and feeding equipment for the dry solids conveying and processing industries. Our equipment provides that rare combination of precision measurement and extreme reliability in a wide variety of industries and markets.
Thomas Conveyor Company is a premier conveyor manufacturer, doing business in various and diverse markets, including Power generation, Pulp and paper, Solid waste handling, Food and beverage, Chemicals and pharmaceuticals, Feed and grain, Cement, Aggregate, Rendering, Waste water treatment, Air and climate – air pollution treatment, Energy – energy utilities, Mining, Waste and recycling – material recycling, and others.
Thomas Conveyor offers CEMA-standard conveying equipment and manufactured products, including Bucket elevators, Screw conveyors, Screw feeders, Grit washers, Hollow flight conveyors, Drag conveyors, Shaftless screw conveyors, Hoppers, and Specialty belt conveyors.
Triton Innovation, LLC is a leader in manufacturing and supplying equipment for a broad range of food handling and washdown applications. We pride ourselves in working with our clients to develop innovative solutions for food processing operations from handling raw ingredients through packaging, which includes food grade, stainless steel, sanitary conveyors, box dumpers and specialty equipment solutions.
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