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Industrial Resin Recycling Diversifies by Looking Beyond Automotive

Recycler equips for new business in medical, housewares and carpeting.

ACS Group Adds Regional Sales Manager

Richard Gutierrez named Southwest regional sales manager.

Scaling Up Sustainable Solutions for Fiber Reinforced Composite Materials

Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Sustainable Manufacturing Technologies Group helps industrial partners tackle the sustainability challenges presented by fiber-reinforced composite materials.

Evolving Opportunities for Ambitious Plastics Recycler

St. Joseph Plastics grew from a simple grinding operation and now pursues growing markets in recycled PP, food-grade recycled materials, and customized post-industrial and post-consumer compounds.

Purpose-Built System Enhances Capacity and Flexibility for Recycler

A Boston recycler invested in a turnkey shredding, granulation and elutriation system to expand its plastics reclaim business.

ACS Adds Midwest Regional Sales Manager

Auxiliary equipment supplier names Mike Tuchalski to post.

Make Your Auxiliaries More Energy Efficient

Don’t overlook your auxiliaries when you’re looking for areas to cut energy consumption. Implementing simple changes won’t break the bank and could pay off big by improving your bottom line and reduce your carbon footprint.

Top 5 Reasons to Consider a Beside-the-Press Granulator

Learn the factors that can help you determine whether a beside-the-press granulator is best for your plastics processing operation.

Cumberland Granulators Works with Teel Plastics and KW Plastics to Help Meet Sustainability Goals

Cumberland Granulators division of ACS Group details the recent work they've done with Teel Plastics and KW Plastics to help them quantify the reduction of global warming potential at their plants.

Size Reduction: Less Noise and Less Energy For Screenless Granulator

Redesigned low-speed screenless granulators feature improvements designed from the inside out, including staggered cutters for more consistent regrind using less energy.

ACS Group Positions Itself as a One-Stop Shop for Plastics Auxiliaries

The AEC, Sterling and Cumberland brands bring new products and a deep well of experience to NPE2018.

Recycling/Scrap Reclaim at NPE2018: Technology Focuses on Boosting Regrind Consistency, Pellet Quality

There will be no shortage of new technology and highlights of the latest trends in recycling and sustainability at NPE2018.

New Granulators Can Tackle Large Injection or Blow Molded Scrap

Cumberland is showing its T50 Series Granulators and versatile FRV & Edge Trim FRE Series feedroll system.

ACS Group Opens New Technology Center

Less than a half mile from its primary manufacturing operations, auxiliary equipment supplier ACS Group has opened a new technology center in New Berlin, Wisc.

RECYCLING/SCRAP RECLAIM AT NPE: Less Waste And Lower Maintenance

Whether for commercial recycling or in-house scrap reclaim, new systems boast reduced maintenance, higher throughput, and less waste of resin for purging.

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.

Compounding & Mixing at NPE 2003

Torque levels and output capacities of corotating twin-screw compounders coming to NPE are higher than ever.

More Choices for Grinding, Shredding

Many granulators on display at the K 2007 show in Dusseldorf last October were big models—150 to 200 hp—to enable higher throughputs or reclaiming larger parts and chunks. For example, Rapid Granulator from Sweden brought out the 600 model, the largest in its “open-hearted” series, which allow fast access to all internal components. It has a 600-mm-diam. rotor, 100 mm more than the next largest size.

NPE 2006 News Wrap-Up: Recycling and Scrap Reclaim

NPE was full of new equipment and systems for recapturing valuable in-plant scrap and post-consumer/post-industrial plastic waste. Recovery of PET packaging and film or fiber waste were particular areas of emphasis, as were lots of new granulators, from the world’s biggest to micro-size and even ‘clean-room’ models.

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