Weigh Scale Blenders Billed as Ideal for Mid-Range Throughputs

Maguire will debut the new WSB-600 series blender at K 2022 in Dusseldorf, Germany in October. This new series of gravimetric blenders are aimed at mid-range throughput applications and precisely dispenses up to 12 materials of widely diverse types. The blenders can be configured to dose up to six major ingredients.

Growing demand for the use of PCR and other factors have plastics processors looking for economical solutions to incorporate additional materials, more diverse materials and changing material content in their final product. The WSB Series of blenders reportedly allows unmatched flexibility to handle up to six major components such as multiple PCRs, virgin or regrind.

The WSB 600 Series has a throughput range up to 2500 lb/hr and is suitable for injection, extrusion, blow molding, and central blending applications. The WSB-600 adds another model to Maguire’s robust line of Weigh Scale Blenders, which already includes over 150 configurations suited to every process and application requirement.

The WSB-600 Series blenders can dispense pellets, powders, and liquids as well as poorly flowing ingredients like regrind, flake, wood flour and talc filler. Each ingredient hopper has a dispensing device designed for a material in a specific form. Like the larger units in the WSB family, the new blenders can be outfitted with up to six large-component slide gates for dispensing major ingredients, along with any combination of large corner valves (11,000 g/sec), 4-inch vertical valves (2,000 g/sec), 2-in. vertical valves (400 g/sec), auger feeders, and liquid color pumps.

“By providing the same flexibility as the 1200, 2400 and 3000 Series units for dispensing up to six large-component ingredients, the WSB-600 Series blenders enable processors working in a somewhat smaller throughput range to meet growing demand for products that incorporate regrind and PCR along with virgin resin,” said Frank Kavanagh, v.p. of marketing and sales. “And like all Maguire blenders across the throughput range, the 600 Series WSBs provide batch-to-batch accuracy of 0.1%.”

All Maguire WSBs are backed by 5-yr warranty.