IAOM President Steve Matson cuts the ribbon to open the expo. Also pictured from left, Ron Galle, immediate past president; Jennifer Harnish, treasurer; Fran Churchill, vice president and incoming president; Melinda Farris, chief executive officer.

Hundreds visit the IAOM Expo floor in the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City, Utah, US.

Gil Garcia of 4B Components Ltd. is ready to discuss the latest hazard monitoring and electronics technology and bucket elevator and conveyor components.

Todd Spinner, left, and Collin Ryan discuss AGI's latest equipment with a booth visitor.

Visitors gather at the Bratney display to learn more about the company’s design, engineering and equipment solutions with Casey Meggers, field sales manager.

The Bühler display showcased many types of equipment, including the Rois fully automatic flow balancer tailored to effectively dose a wide range of granular products.

Clarence Hacket and Robert Noyes staff the Carter Day booth showcasing the company’s processing equipment for cereal grains and free-flowing granular materials.

Paul Van Camp, director of sales for Great Western Manufacturing, discusses an in-line sifter with an expo visitor.

Diwakar Mokadam, president and general manager at BON Filtration and Process Equipment/IMAS North America, discusses the IMAS Aluminum Multiplexa Plansifter MQA during a product showcase during the expo’s first day.

Staffing the KPM Analytics booth were Michael Ahern, sales director, North America; M. Hikmet Boyacioglu, application engineer; and Peter Strangis, technical sales manager.

Italy-based Ocrim specializes in the supply of milling plants, feed mills and grain processing systems. For its turnkey projects, Ocrim manages every step of the production process in-house: research, design and production of all the parts that make up a plant.

Visitors chat at the display for Satake, which manufactures equipment for conventional and specialty flour mill processes under the Henry Simon brand. Other Satake lines include corn flour mills, rice processing plants and more.

Ruedi Weiss, chief executive officer, SWISCA North America, showcases the ROMIL for precise grinding of different grains during the second day of the Expo.

Michael Kline, sales application director, stands ready to discuss Vortex’s wide range of solids and bulk handling components that suit most materials and applications, including slide gates, diverters and loading spouts.