DuPont Changes Gear to Enhance Delrin Production
These feeders replace existing equipment that were unable to meet DuPont's exacting performance requirements in feeder accuracy, rapid product changeover times and increased capacity of their production lines. Among the feeders already installed include several Model 170 feeders, which feature a secondary discharge port — designed specifically for such applications where rapid product changeover or easy cleanout is required. Such a feature has helped DuPont not only save downtime in changing over the pigments used in the production of Delrin®, but has also significantly reduced waste, which compounders like DuPont often incur in product changeover.
New Production Line at Spartech Polycom to Use Acrison Feeders
This line represents the largest of the three production lines of Spartech Polycom France and has been installed to cope with increased European demand for plastic pellets to make components for the automotive industry. The third line looks set to produce 16,000 tonnes per annum, to take Polycom Donchery's total...
Jackdaw Polymers Choose the GP403-101 for New Technical Center
The pilot plant will handle a huge range of development projects, giving the company the ability to run customer samples on a system that replicates the production environment. The Acrison equipment consists of a main polymer feeder (GP 403-101), and two additive feeders (406 BDF 00; 405 BDF 11), all...
Acrison Feeders Tackle Tough Compounding Challenge
The bin discharge feeder (BDF) has two parallel conditioning augers mounted within a non-converging feed chamber, and a centrally located metering auger. There are 9 standard designs of conditioning auger to promote product flow, and more than 100 different configurations of metering auger for optimum performance across a wide range...
New Feeders Boost EPS Production, Efficiency at Bandex
Bandex S.A., located in San Luis, Argentina, manufactures disposable containers and plates from expanded polystyrene (EPS). The production line extrudes and thermoforms virgin polystyrene, recycled polystyrene, talc, and masterbatch color pellets. Bandex is the market leader in EPS packaging for fresh produce in Argentina. When the company began operation in...
Feeders Satisfy Plant's Hunger for Expansion
New Plant Incorporates Tried-and-True Feeders
We manufacture highly engineered resins — the more sophisticated the application, the better," says Craig Lucas, executive vice president of B&M Plastics Inc., Evansville, Ind. "And for us to keep turning out top-quality engineered resins, we need to have highly accurate and rugged feeders." B&M Plastics manufactures engineered resins for...
Feeders Exceed Company's Requirements
O'Neil Color & Compounding Corp., a subsidiary of Primex Plastics Corp., produces custom colorant and additive master batches and thermoplastic compounds for customers that make injection molded, blow-molded, extruded, and other finished plastic products. In 1992, the company purchased a compounding plant in Jasper, Tenn., that had several existing extrusion...
Feeders Provide Highly Accurate, Repeatable Feed Rates
In 2005, Randy Rudisill and Dave Donie, both former top executives of a major plastics company, founded American Compounding Specialties (ACS) to toll-compound various thermoplastics and specialty resins for companies in the plastics and chemical industries. ACS was initially formed to fill a void in the custom-compounding market by using...
Loss-In-Weight Gravimetric Feeders Help Boost Company's Production Capacity
Network Polymers, Akron, Ohio, produces highly engineered, custom thermoplastic resins and alloys for the automotive, medical, hardware, and many other industries. At the end of 2010, the company wanted to increase production to meet customer demand for newly developed products made with specialized powder and pellet blends. To accomplish this,...
Metal Coating Technologies Provide Critical Edge for Dry Bulk Solids Handling Leader
Over the past forty years, Acrison has established itself as an industry leading authority in dry bulk solids handling, specifically the precision metering of dry solid ingredients by volume or weight and the closely related proportioning, blending, storage and hoppering of these materials. Acrison's expertise is well known throughout the...
Denim Jeans Get That Stonewashed Look with Acrison
Following a company restructuring, Denykem focused on its core chemical business (part of the Denykem Group used to stonewash jeans) and has invested in new production equipment - including a granulator and several Acrison feeders. Given the cost of the raw ingredients and the range of flow properties, it was...
Feeding at an Even Flow
Blenders, feeders double output, labor efficiency
Buddy's Plant Plus Corp. sought to optimize its production of water-soluble fertilizer and to reduce labor costs at its Ballinger, TX, plant. Loss-in-weight feeders and enclosed continuous blenders increased production from 62 tpd (tons per day) to 140 tpd. Labor requirements were reduced from 10 people in a 10-hr day...
There is No Emergency: Loss-In-Weight Feeders Save Fire-Resistive Materials Manufacturer
Isolatek International, headquartered in Stanhope, N.J., has more than 40 years of experience manufacturing dry and wet spray-applied fire-resistive materials. Used as a fire barrier, these materials are sprayed onto steel beams, columns, joists, and roof and floor assemblies during the construction of commercial buildings. To produce these fire-resistive materials,...
Acrison Model 170-00 Feeder Installed At a Belgian Snackfood Company Is Ensuring That We Get Tasty Crisps
Lani Belgium specializes in short runs of crisps—typically up to around 1000 packs of any one flavor. It doesn’t have dedicated lines for each flavor so its feeders are continually being cleaned, stripped down and refilled to accommodate its diverse range. Dosing feeders in this environment must be able to...
Acrison Model 105 and Loss-In-Weight Feeders Increase Accuracy at Flour Mill
The remotely controlled new feeders, part of an ongoing investment program, have increased the efficiency of the self-raising flour line and improved the control of the recipe. They have also reduced manpower costs and made part of the existing production line redundant, resulting in an energy saving. Self-raising flour includes...
New Feeders Payback in Less than a Year
For any edible product, consistent colouring is an absolute imperative—and this is as true for pet foods as it is for our own food. It was the challenge of ensuring accurate colour with minimal product wastage that led MRC, the UK's leading process engineering company in the animal feed industry,...
Cadbury Chooses Acrison
The Chirk site processes 50,000 tonnes of cocoa beans a year, and operates 24 hours a day, producing Cadbury products to the highest standards of quality control. Although the main objectives were to improve housekeeping and system maintenance, the new feeder also had to offer relatively high accuracy of rate...
Acrison Feeders Say Cheese
Typical automatic cheese making systems take curds and whey, filter and cheddar the curd, then mill the cheese to cut it into small pieces prior to salt application. This salt metering is crucial to the final product, which must have a closely maintained salt levels. The accuracy of the salt...
Acrison Equipment Standardizes the Flour Fortification Process in Colombia
Our client, a federal governing agency in Colombia, mandated by a decision by the Ministry of Health, was to prepare and implement a program to standardize on equipment to fortify and enrich the quality of the country's flour by adding vitamins. This program by law was to be implemented at...
Food Manufacturer's New Batching, Feeding, and Blending Equipment Saves More than Just Peanuts
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