Exploring the: Resin Conveying Zone
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- Infrared Crystallizes and Dries PET Faster and with Less Energy
- In the search for ways to dry hygroscopic resins faster and more efficiently, infrared energy is an approach that many dryer makers find intriguing and potentially promising.
Article Published: 7/1/2007
- 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...
Article Published: 6/1/2007
- Therapy for 'Over-Weight' Weigh-Hopper Scales
- Scale performance inaccuracies are typically false-positive weights where the scale reads more material than it is actually receiving. There are steps to manage mechanical scale issues.
Article Published: 5/1/2007
- 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 re...
Article Published: 4/1/2007
- Extruding Biopolymers: Packaging Reaps Cost Benefit of Going 'Green'
- Plastics made from renewable carbon chains, not fossil carbon from oil or gas, are suddenly a solid commercial reality. The draw isn’t just “green” marketing, but the “green” of stable prices not linked to petrochemicals.
Article Published: 2/1/2007
- 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.
Article Published: 10/1/2006
- 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...
Article Published: 6/1/2006
- NPE 2006 News Flash
- Injection MoldingSimplified Hot Runners Save Time & CostA new lower-cost hot-runner alternative to valve gating is suited to less critical cosmetic applications where users need predictable and reliable gate opening but not sequential gate opera...
Article Published: 5/1/2006
- All-Electric Plant Gets World-Class Results
- In mid-2004, Delphi Connection Systems, part of Tier 1 automotive supplier Delphi Corp.’s Packard Electric operations, flipped the switch on a new 190,000-sq-ft, $58-million plant in Vienna Township, Ohio.
Article Published: 5/1/2006
- How to Get a Handle on Materials-Handling Problems
- The best way to avoid materials-handling problems is to design and install the system properly in the beginning.
Article Published: 4/1/2006
