Feeding & Blending

Removable Bins on Conair TrueBlend™ Blenders Increase Flexibility, Speed Material Changeovers

The TrueBlend 250 Series blenders, with throughputs as high as 1000 lbs/hr, can now be equipped with compact, removable material bins in two of the four hopper positions.

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High-Heat Options for Conair TrueBlend™ Blenders Allow Processing of Pre-Dried Materials

Processors running engineering plastics like ABS, nylon, polycarbonate and PET, can now blend these resins after they are dried, thanks to new high-temperature models available for TrueBlend 100, 250, 500 and 900 Series blenders, which offer throughputs as high as 3500 lbs/hr.

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Newest, Biggest TrueBlend™ Blenders from Conair Mix as Many as Six Materials at Rates to 14,000 lbs/hr

Since the recent introduction of the innovative Conair TrueBlend™ gravimetric blenders, hundreds of them have been sold.

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Coloring on the Machine: You Can Do It Right

Coloring at the machine can offer significant cost benefits, including lower material inventory costs and improved process flexibility when compared with the cost of buying precolored resin or installing a large-capacity central blender to premix resin and color concentrate.

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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.

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Brabender NEW ScrewDisc Feeder

Brabender Technologie NEW ScrewDisc Feeder For optimum performance in feeding pellets and free flowing granules, the Brabender ScrewDisc Loss-in-Weight feeder offers a Pulsationless flow over a wide feed rate range.

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FlexWall Plus - Easy Change Feeder

Brabender Technologie Inc. demonstrates the NEW “Easy Change” hopper design for the FlexWall Plus feeder.

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Fix Thickness Variations in Extruded Sheet

Non-uniform thickness in extruded sheet is a serious problem.

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Recycling

Solving Gravimetric Blender Problems

Gravimetric blenders offer plastics processors considerable savings.

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Cure Feeder Problems in Twin-Screw Compounding

The dilemma for compounders with starve-fed twin-screw extruders is how to keep the formulation constant within the extruder barrel.

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