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Feeder Line Offers Processors More Flexibility

Line features a single touchscreen for easy setup and operation.

Technology 'Fuses' Feeding and Blending

New technology combines the controls of the Maguire WSB gravimetric batch blender with MGF gravimetric feeders positioned beneath or remote to a blender.

Streamlined Drying Process Speeds Up Changeovers

NPE2024: Maguire demonstrating increase in productivity possible by vacuum drying.

Program Provides Equipment Maintenance, Overhauls and Upgrades

NPE2024: Program aims to ensure equipment remains at peak performance levels throughout its life cycle.

Dryer, Blender for 'Real Time' Regrind Usage

NPE2024: Dri-Air Industries and Maguire Products join forces on the former’s second generation of on-demand drying/blending systems for the circular economy.

Injection Molder Bases Company Culture on Employee Empowerment

After more than two decades in the industry, Rodney Davenport was given the opportunity to create an injection molding operation in his own vision, and — in keeping with the product he was making — to do so from the ground up.

High-Output Dryer Requires Less Energy

Maguire’s ULTRA 2200 is designed to meet high throughput requirements with a max capacity of 2200 lb/hr.

Weigh Scale Blenders Billed as Ideal for Mid-Range Throughputs

Blenders address growing demand to use PCR along with regrind, fillers and virgin polymer.

Flexible Feeder Line Suited for All Processes

New feeder models are said to offer the ultimate in flexibility for injection molding, extrusion, blow molding and extrusion control applications.

More Power for Dryer Controller

Allows users complete pump and receiver control in a cell, in a user-friendly and straightforward control system.

Rotary Bridge Break Helps Dose Poor-Flowing Materials

Designed for largest gravimetric blenders, Maguire device helps accurately dose regrind, recyclate, and other bridge-prone ingredients.

Maguire Buys Stake in O.A. Newton

Investment has the potential to expand the capabilities of Maguire in the bulk material handling phase of the process industries.

Have You Considered the Sustainability Benefits of Liquid Color?

Add less pigment to the solid-waste or recycling streams, save energy, and reduce waste to landfill, among other advantages.

Material Handling: Vacuum Conveying Pump Makes Things Simple

Maguire’s new pump is compatible with the company’s LowPro receivers used for automated ‘mini-central’ conveying systems.

K 2019 Report: Auxiliaries Stake Their Claim in the Circular Economy

The theme of sustainable plastics pervaded the exhibits at K 2019, even those of auxiliary equipment suppliers, where everything from dryers to blenders to hopper loaders was reimagined as part of a circular plastics process.

Extrusion: Control System for Wire, Cable

System allows producers to maximize throughput while maintaining tolerances.

Feeding/Blending: Add Color Throughout Recovery and Injection Phases

Maguire extends its 100% Injection Coloring technology as an option for its MGF gravimetric feeders.

Extrusion: Modular Control System for Blown Film

System can be installed on new line or on a retrofit basis to improve quality and cut resin costs.

Maguire Establishes Subsidiary in Taiwan

The Pennsylvania headquartered supplier of auxiliary equipment has opened a new subsidiary in Taichung City to serve what it calls a “large and growing” market.

K 2019 Preview: Auxiliaries Showcase Connectivity & Efficiency

At press time, a handful of auxiliary suppliers shared some of their K 2019 plans, highlighting connectivity and efficiency in their planned displays.

NPE2018 New Technology Focus: Drying

Industry 4.0 meets resin-drying at NPE2018.

More Productivity, Connectivity from the Same Footprint

Maguire’s NPE2018 booth mixes new and old products, and some old products with new features.

NPE2018 New Technology Focus: Material Blending, Loading, Dosing

The big push is for more functionality in a smaller footprint.

Plastics Hall of Fame: 10 Inspiring Stories

Last evening, at the Linda W. Chapin Theatre, the Plastics Academy inducted 10 new members into the Plastics Hall of Fame. Meet these outstanding individuals with remarkable stories. Each one teaches a lesson of hard work and creative thinking.

Steve Maguire: A Visionary in Materials Handling

Steve Maguire radically transformed materials handling technologies and his last name is globally recognized in this field. Last Sunday he earned his place in history as new inductee of the Plastics Hall of Fame.

Auxiliaries at NPE2018: Packing More Functions in Less Space

Auxiliary equipment suppliers are building more and more technology into their products, packing more physical and virtual functions into the same or smaller footprints.

Compact System Combines Loading, Dosing, Mixing, and Dispensing Functions

Maguire’s Micro Tower mixes up to three materials—such as virgin resin, regrind, and masterbatch—in 10 lb. (4.5 kg) batches.

Drying: Vacuum Drying Line Extended

New, intermediate-range model in the VBD line of vacuum resin dryers from Maguire.

Vacuum Drying Sucks Wasted Time From Process Set-Up

A switch to vacuum drying resulted in a completely revamped process for this custom molder.

BLENDING: Next-Generation Controls for Gravimetric Blenders

New Maguire 4088 controller has option of a removable touchscreen interface with embedded loading software. Compatible with previous Maguire control systems.

Why Processors Are Rediscovering Liquid Colorants

In extrusion, injection, and blow molding, liquid color is enjoying something of a renaissance. Cost is one reason, but advances in pigments, carriers, delivery systems, and innovative service programs have played a role too.

K 2013: More Efficient, Flexible & User-Friendly Auxiliaries

It’s hard to generalize about auxiliary equipment, but a few trends stood out at K, including: greater energy efficiency, ease of maintenance and cleaning, controls that provide more real-time and historical process information and greater ease of use.

Auxiliaries at NPE: News in Materials Handling, Cooling, Granulating, Welding, Testing, Decorating

Auxiliary equipment takes in a broad range of functions, from materials preparation to post-mold finishing.

Auxiliaries at NPE: New Solutions from Material Preparation To Post-Mold Operations

There will be an extraordinary range of new auxiliary equipment on display at the show.

News in Auxiliaries & Tooling at Fakuma Show

Late last month, Friedrichshafen, Germany, hosted Fakuma 2011, the largest European plastics show of the year, growing to be second in size and importance to the K show in Dusseldorf.

Time for a New Look at Liquid Color?

Liquid colorants are growing more popular with processors looking for a competitive advantage. Though perhaps not for everyone, they can offer more economical letdown ratios and work especially well with heat-sensitive materials.

K 2010 Preview, Auxiliaries: Equipment of All Types Debuts This Month at K 2010

From materials drying, feeding, and blending to process heating/cooling, scrap reclaiming, testing, welding, and decorating—the K 2010 show this month in Dusseldorf, Germany, will have news in all categories of auxiliary equipment.

Progressive Injection Molder Pioneers in Thermoforming IML

When you’re a successful injection molder with more than 40 years under your belt and more than 50 presses producing 1.8 billion containers and lids for food-packaging containers annually, what do you do when you feel the time is right to expand?

NPE News Wrap-up: Resin Dryers

At least 16 companies introduced new dryers at the big show in Chicago. The new models span a range of drying technologies, but most sport features that save space and cost and make the dryers simpler and more reliable.

‘Lean’ Molding & Liquid Color: A Good Fit

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On-Site: Green Business Is Good Business for Fabri-Kal

Learning to deal with the particular characteristics of PLA biopolymer has opened up a promising business in “green” plastics for thermoformer Fabri-Kal.

Getting Control of Materials Handling

“It has made my life a whole lot easier,” says Steve Holdren, technical manager. “It’s a night-and day difference,” agrees maintenance manager Matt Dzambazi.

How to Minimize Problems With Gravimetric Blenders

The first and best way to avoid blending problems is to choose the right gravimetric blender for the application.

HOW TO COMPARE DRYERS? A Complex Challenge With No Simple Answers

Is one type of resin dryer faster or more energy-efficient than another? That question prompts competing claims from suppliers—but very little concrete data. When one vendor performed controlled tests to get some answers, its results, published here for the first time, prompted further debate about the difficulties of making valid comparisons and the many complex issues involved in dryer selection.

NPE 2006 News Wrap-Up: Materials Handling: A Host of Refinements and Updates

NPE 2006 held no revolutionary changes in dryers, blenders, feeders, loaders, or conveying controls, but widely adopted improvements make the newest models easier to use and maintain—and easier on the budget, too.

What to See at NPE 2006: Materials and Parts Handling

Dryers, feeders, blenders, loaders, metal detectors, level sensors, mechanical and pneumatic conveyors, silos, bins, pumps, filters, valves, box fillers, bag dumpers, and materials-handling control systems constitute one of the biggest categories of products on display at NPE.

Resin Dryers: Which Type Is Right for You?

Processors today face bewildering choices of at least five basic types of dryers, whose capabilities are subject to conflicting claims from equipment suppliers. For the buyer, the most basic questions are: How much drying is needed for the job and which dryer types are up to the task?

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