Please visit: Hosokawa Polymer Systems
Mailing Address:
63 Fuller Way
Berlin,
CT
06037-7236
US
Phone:
860-828-0541
Toll-Free:
800-233-6112
Fax:
860-829-1313

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| Hosokawa Polymer Systems - Berlin, CT |
Hosokawa Polymer Systems
is a leading manufacturer of granulators, dedusters and separation systems, film/fiber recovery systems and other general plastic recycling equipment. With over 35 years of history and thousands of granulators and systems delivered, our experience and quality are second to none. We offer a complete line of granulators for every application from 3 HP to 600 HP, covering injection molding, blow molding, extrusion, film, and most every other application found. We also offer an extensive line of dedusters and air separators which are used for fines removal, fiber separation and many other applications.
Through standard or custom configurations, Hosokawa Polymer Systems' granulators and systems can handle all your production requirements
from the routine to the most challenging.
In 2001, when Thomas Bernich started Brooklynphono, a private-label LP record pressing company in Brooklyn, N.Y., he bought used equipment from record companies that were going out of business, even despite strong sales growth.
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 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.
Recycling and reclamation are once again hot technologies—this time because of high resin prices.
Topping recycling news at the latest giant K Show in Dusseldorf, Germany, were new compactor technologies for films and foams that can densify plastic waste for recycling and even mold finished parts—not just save space in a landfill.
While most of the new granulators shown at NPE 2000 last month were beside-the-press models, there was also an accent on larger units with an appetite for tough hunks of large-diameter PVC pipe, bundles of textile fibers, and wads of molten bottle flash. Many are configured for “difficult” resins from engineering types to soft TP elastomers.
A batch of new press-side and central granulators introduced at K'98 are designed to cut cleaner and faster. Also new are a washer/dryer for dirty waste and a repelletizer for tough films and fibers.