A look at material handling systems and auxiliary equipment consisting of conveying, drying, dosing, temperature control and recycling while maintaining seamless operations for processes of storage and transfer to filling and emptying for the plastics industry.
Conair Group
724.584.5500
www.conairgroup.com
Conair Group, Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania, an industrial equipment supplier, has its
Resin Selection Station (tabletop fantails) that is ideally suited for central drying and distribution systems that require conveying multiple materials to multiple destinations. The Resin Selection Station can be placed anywhere between the material sources and destinations. The modular design provides a variety of configurations for flexibility and expansion. Push-fit connectors make changing materials fast and easy. Simply purge the line to ensure it is clean and primed for the next conveying cycle, then move the connector to the desired material source line. Now, the addition of the foolproof RFID proofing option makes material selection errors a thing of the past.
Dynamic Conveyor
231.798.1483
www.dynamicconveyor.com
Dynamic Conveyor, Norton Shores, Michigan, is a provider of innovative conveyor solutions, in particular the Hybrid® specialty conveyors that are custom designed to meet the most demanding conveyance objectives. The most common challenges that require specialty conveyor solutions include limited space, high speeds, heavy loads, high impact, abrasive products, delicate products, temperature extremes and high or low PH products. With a modular design framework, each system is designed to meet the specific needs of the application ensuring the solution provides the proper form, fit and function. The design flexibility, including a wide array of belting options makes the Hybrid® conveyor an excellent solution for manufacturing plastics, medical devices, packaging/parcels, and other parts and unit handling applications.
Globeius, Inc.
305.889.1782
www.globeius.com
Globeius, Inc., Miami, Florida, a provider of machinery, equipment and technical support, offers gaylord tilters as an equipment option for processors which provides both manual and automatic tilting of bins, totes and boxes to allow for easy and complete material clean-out. The tilters work well with free-flowing and semi-free-flowing materials for a variety of downstream processing requirements. Standard features include heavy-duty steel construction, 52” x 52” 7ga deck, ground entry loading, 45° tilt angle and 1600 lbs (not maximum weight) initial lift at 80psi. Tilter options include a pneumatic vibrator, full tilt indicator light, foot control valve and stainless construction.
Milacron
513.300.6020
www.milacron.com
Milacron, Batavia, Ohio, is a manufacturer and distributor of plastics processing equipment,
carries a central material conveying system consisting of a vacuum pump and dust collector that conveys material to two resin surge bins and two injection unit-mounted vacuum receiving chambers. The resin conveying system features a resin selection station equipped with radio frequency identification (RFID) line-proofing functionality, which provides the user with a simplistic method to eliminate the possibility of operator error. It utilizes LED lighting to ensure that the correct material connections are made from the material destination to the material source.
Wittmann USA, Inc.
860.496.9603
www.wittmann-group.com
Wittmann USA, Inc., Torrington, Connecticut, is a manufacturer of auxiliary equipment, robot automation and injection molding machine technology, has innovatively created the FEEDMAX CL (Clean) material separation loader. It was developed to meet the more stringent requirements of circular economy and the resulting increase in plastic granulate containing dust. In the development of this dust and fines particle separator, special attention was given to recycled plastic material. The FEEDMAX CL was designed with a very special, yet simple, flow concept that separates up to 80% of dust and fines (particles less than 1.000 μm) from regrind. The FEEDMAX CL comes with a clear advantage, by separating five times the normal quantity of undesirable dust and fines from regrind. n
