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Unraveling the Science and Myth Associated With Moisture Analysis— Part 1

The first task in moisture measurement is to purchase an instrument that is based on sound fundamentals. Then, before it goes into use, method development must be undertaken for all polymers that are going to be processed in the plant.

Novatec Announces Deal with Moisture-Analysis Specialist

Novatec will be aboni’s exclusive distributor in North and Latin America for offline moisture analyzer.

Novatec PTXPO Spotlight

Novatec discusses the upcoming Plastics Technology Expo (PTXPO) March 28-30

New Technology Enables ‘Smart Drying’ Based on Resin Moisture

The ‘DryerGenie’ marries drying technology and input moisture measurement with a goal to putting an end to drying based on time.

A Coronavirus Comeback Restarts Growth at Medical Compounder

A slowdown in catheter production stopped growth in its tracks last year at Foster. But business has turned around quickly this year, and the medical compounder was prepared for the rebound.

Which Self-Contained Plastic Vacuum Loader is Best?

For conveying resin materials over short distances there’s no more efficient and versatile way than using a self-contained vacuum loader. It may seem like a basic piece of equipment but selecting the right model can make a big difference in efficiency, process consistency, and reduced changeover time.

Plug-In Detector Alerts when COVID-19, Flu, Other Viruses Are Found

Breakthrough biosensing technology screens air within indoor spaces and immediately alerts occupants when COVID-19 or other coronaviruses, such as the flu, are sensed.

Maguire Buys Stake in O.A. Newton

Investment has the potential to expand the capabilities of Maguire in the bulk material handling phase of the process industries.

Four New Developments in Plastics Drying

These four short videos provide a snapshot of what’s going on in plastics resin drying technology. Yes, there’s Industry 4.0, but also lots more to bring higher quality and efficiency to your injection molding and extrusion processes.

Use Automated Fever Scanning to Protect your People and your Business

This new non-contact temperature screening system from MachineSense is quick and easy to use. It provides an added level of health protection for employees and legal protection for the business.

Auxiliary Equipment: Sanitizing System Stops Particulate, Dust from Accelerating COVID-19 Virus

New machine features a multi-stage air circulator, scrubber, and sanitizer that traps airborne particulate and then kills any viral matter automatically with a multi-staged ultraviolet system.

Medical Tubing: No Tradeoff of Speed for Quality with New Downstream Package

New technology from Novatec packages next-generation multi-pass tank, novel gauging technique, and enhanced coilers to boost rates to 1000 ft/min or more without tube-quality issues.

IR-Based System Permits Automatic Scan of Body Temp

Developed by MachineSense, FeverWarn can be installed in the form of a gate or retrofitted to any entrance location for the automatic scanning of human body temperature.

Precision Extrusion Puller/Cutters Designed for Medical Tubing

Novatec’s Bob Bessemer is at it again with a new line of extrusion puller/cutters designed specifically for the rigors of microbore medial tube processing.

New Method Boosts Medical-Tubing Efficiency

At Plastec West, Novatec unveiled an ultrasonic centering gauge to all but eliminate concentricity issues while decreasing startup time and slashing material waste.

New Downstream System For Inline Cutting, Curing of TPU Tubing

Novatec will debut an altogether new approach for processing tacky, hard-to-cut thermoplastic polyurethane tubes at next month’s Plastec West show.

Giving the ‘Royal’ Treatment in PET Packaging

In the U.S. for just seven years, Royal Interpack is emerging as a growing, innovative, customer-centric supplier of food packaging.

No-Compromise Extrusion Water and Vacuum Tanks Designed for Medical Tubing

Downstream extrusion equipment expert Bob Bessemer set out to design the perfect water and vacuum sizing tanks for medical tubing. He just may have pulled it off.

Novatec Appoints Bob Bessemer VP Extrusion Technology

Downstream extrusion expert will direct firm’s efforts to enter medical tubing market.

Downstream System ‘Rewrites the Rules’ for Medical Tubing Extrusion

Extrusion downstream expert Bob Bessemer joins Novatec to enter medical tubing market with innovative line of tanks and puller/cutters.

Moldmaking in Mexico: A New Frontier

Advancing beyond repairs and maintenance, there is a growing Mexican moldmaking segment, giving local supply and support to the country’s burgeoning automotive sector, among others.

Nitrogen Drying for Specialty Resins

Dryer introduces an inert gas or nitrogen to inhibit the oxidative degradation of polymers.

NPE2018 New Technology Focus: Drying

Industry 4.0 meets resin-drying at NPE2018.

For Novatec and Machine Sense, the Focus Is the Factory of Today

Interconnectivity alone will not raise the bar on productivity…and profitability, says Bessemer.

NPE2018 New Technology Focus: Process Cooling

Key themes in chillers at NPE2018 are efficiency, connectivity and transparency.

Dryer Has Digital Twin

Virtual X-ray or MRI of the machine looks under the sheet metal to determine actual status of components.

Auxiliaries at NPE2018: Packing More Functions in Less Space

Auxiliary equipment suppliers are building more and more technology into their products, packing more physical and virtual functions into the same or smaller footprints.

NPE Trend Watch: Predictive Maintenance

New technology allows processors to address equipment and component hiccups before they start to foul up manufacturing.

Unique Machine Combines Dryer, TCU in Single Footprint

Novel, space-saving device co-developed by Novatec and Advantage Engineering offers a single control designed to reduce setup mistakes.

Technology Takes Aim At Drying Specialized Resins

Novatec develops new at-the-press drying solutions for molders tackling highly tailored nylons and other specialty materials.

Decoding ‘Industry 4.0’

The biggest splash at NPE will come from the wave of technological innovation and futuristic enthusiasm known variously as Industry 4.0 or the Smart Factory or the Internet of Things.

VIDEO: Predict Failure, Maintain Success

Is it still a repair if you fix the machine before it breaks?

VIDEO: Extrusion Still Mixes Art and Science

On many extrusion shop floors, there’s likely a more experienced staffer who can tell something’s amiss with a line using only the instrumentation God gave him or her.

‘Machine Wearables’ Predict Health of Vacuum Pumps & Blowers

Conveying systems now come with predictive-maintenance technology at no upcharge.

Novatec Hires Drying Project Coordinator

Lawrence Korpanty will serve as drying project coordinator to further support and develop firm's growing dryer customer base and portfolio of drying products.

AUXILIARY EQUIPMENT: System-Wide PLC Control of AuxilIaries

New control system priced below older technologies.

Optimized Molding Is Possible With Material Drying, Handling

Injection speed and overall cycle time are often the focus for molders pursuing optimized processes, but for truly efficient production, molders should consider how and in what state material arrives at the machine.

New System Measures Moisture In Pellets During Processing

Self-calibrating system measures pellet moisture in real time and can adjust dryer controls accordingly.

Molder Builds a Business From Next to Nothing

Under new ownership, Cumberland Plastics Solutions’ decision to invest when times were tough has paid big dividends.

Down in the Valley, Profiles Grow

Valley Extrusions carves niche in tight-tolerance, short-run tubing and profiles.

‘Wearable’ Machine Sensors Extended to Power Factor & Retrofits

As is often the case with a new technology, customers are dictating how predictive-maintenance sensors will be applied and where they might be headed next.

Measure Pellet Moisture Online: A Second System Debuts at Fakuma

Moretto will show a system to measure pellet moisture minute-by-minute and automatically adjust the dryer, if necessary.

EXTRUSION AND COMPOUNDING NPE: Flexibility, Speed and Quality

Extrusion processors need more—of everything—to compete. And suppliers responded in force in Orlando.

News Highlights from NPE2015

Here’s a first look at new technology in materials, auxiliaries, and all types of processes.

Auxiliaries: A New Frontier in Metal Replacement

Stainless steel has been the de facto material choice for machine components like tanks and hoppers for forever, but do rotomolded plastics make more sense?

Five Straight Years of Plastics Equipment Shipments Growth

One week before the sector’s biggest show, the U.S. plastics industry reported a surge in equipment shipments for the full year and final quarter of 2014, with solid momentum maintained heading into 2015.

AUXILIARIES AT NPE: More Control, Flexibility, And Efficiency

These are key trends in the many kinds of auxiliary equipment displayed at this month’s show. You’ll also see equipment designed to be virtually ‘foolproof.’

EXTRUSION AND COMPOUNDING AT NPE: The Word Is ‘More’

As in speed, power, quality, flexibility, layers, and efficiency. Those are the trends across all extrusion processes.

Short-Run Specialist Chases Higher Productivity While Staying Lean

How do you automate jobs that run only a few hours? That’s only one of the questions challenging a fast-growing, short-run molder.

Detect When Equipment Needs Maintenance—Before It’s Too Late

New technology to debut next month at NPE warns when preventive maintenance is needed, before equipment failure disrupts production.

Put the Brakes on Resin Conveying Speed to Minimize System Maintenance

Here’s how to manage pneumatic conveying speeds to extend equipment life and reduce material waste in your plant.

On Site: 140 Years…And Growing Stronger

Now in its fifth generation of family ownership, this sheet extruder isn’t all about output. Its focus is on creating solutions in highly customized markets that aren’t immediately associated with sheet.

Teel Plastics: Where Science, Tech, Quality and Innovation Meet

This family-owned custom profile and tubing business controls its own destiny by controlling, well, everything.

Resin Conveying: No More ‘Spaghetti Bowl’

You now have technology choices to avoid the maze of conveying tubes that form a ‘spaghetti bowl’ or ‘rat’s nest’ in a central materials-handling system. Here’s how they stack up.

Savvy Processors Reveal Best Practices on Drying

The processors speak: Here’s how some smart molders and extruders tackle the vexing problem of resin drying.

Automotive molder seeks flexible solution for diverse drying needs

Clear, amber or red; headlights, taillights and turn signals: those are just some of the constantly changing jobs that custom automotive molder TASUS pulls in and out of its presses, requiring a flexible drying system to handle the ever-changing run list.

New Drying Technology Helps Moldmaker Get Back to Molding

System solves quality problem that had hamstrung previous molder.

Auxiliaries at NPE: News in Materials Handling, Cooling, Granulating, Welding, Testing, Decorating

Auxiliary equipment takes in a broad range of functions, from materials preparation to post-mold finishing.

Extrusion & Compounding at NPE: Advances Push Efficiency Envelope

Blown film towers may have been scarce, but there was no shortage of new technology aimed at helping to make extrusion processors more profitable.

New Player, Familiar Name In Downstream Extrusion Equipment

Bessemer Series debuts at NPE2012.

Auxiliaries at NPE: New Solutions from Material Preparation To Post-Mold Operations

There will be an extraordinary range of new auxiliary equipment on display at the show.

Now You Can Measure Pellet Moisture In the Hopper, in Real Time

Take the guesswork out of drying with new technology.

Central Drying Made Simple

Recent advances in technology have made the concept of drying in a central location—as opposed to right at the machine—more advantageous for certain kinds of processing operations.

Station Valves

This component may be called a station valve, a station ‘T’ or a vacuum sequencing valve.

Vacuum Pumps Components

Vacuum pumps are the heart of any resin conveying system – providing the vacuum to pull resin through your system from each source to each destination.

Dryers Use Less Energy to Dry PET

Novatec Inc., Baltimore (novatec.com), is introducing two patented dryer control technologies intended to cut energy costs for processors of PET.

NPE News Wrap-up: Resin Dryers

At least 16 companies introduced new dryers at the big show in Chicago. The new models span a range of drying technologies, but most sport features that save space and cost and make the dryers simpler and more reliable.

How to Minimize Problems With Gravimetric Blenders

The first and best way to avoid blending problems is to choose the right gravimetric blender for the application.

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.

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 for the first time, prompted further debate about the difficulties of making valid comparisons and the many complex issues involved in dryer selection.

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.

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 products on display at NPE.

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.

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.

Resin Dryers: Which Type Is Right for You?

Processors today face bewildering choices of at least five basic types of dryers, whose capabilities are subject to conflicting claims from equipment suppliers. For the buyer, the most basic questions are: How much drying is needed for the job and which dryer types are up to the task?

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