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Gaylord Tilters, Sweepers: What’s the Difference?
Plastics processors have long relied on a simple technology, a pick-up lance or wand, connected to a vacuum system, to draw material from Gaylord Tilters. Just put the wand into the material and, when needed, turn on the vacuum to draw material to the destination. But as the material around...
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What would you do if? Solving three head-scratching equipment problems
Plastics processors know that it’s wise to be careful with a buck. Experience teaches if you can eliminate a problem with preventive maintenance, it is money well spent, since unplanned repairs and downtime cost about 10 times more than planned maintenance. But maintenance programs aren’t perfect and equipment problems arise...
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Plastics Granulator Maintenance for Regrinding
您生产的食物应自由流动，干净地切割，尺寸均匀，没有灰尘和罚款。那是因为那里没有一台加工机或控制机器（注射造型，吹塑，挤出或其余）可以始终如一地将质量不佳的重新改造为高质量的成品。这就是为什么，如果您...
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Upgrading Your TrueBlend Blender from SB-1 to SB-4, the Easiest Decision You’ll Make All Week!
有时制作业内最好的设备有一个问题 - 它通常会永远持续（或者似乎如此）。我们反复听到：“我很想购买一个新的（烘干机，搅拌机等），但旧的只是继续工作！”制造真正持续的设备的缺点是...
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我应该选择气冷冷水机或水冷冷水机吗？
Our Chiller Essentials article explained that chillers circulate cooling water through process equipment to remove heat. When that cooling water returns to the chiller, it transfers the heat away from the chiller to the environment using a refrigerant loop and either an air- or water-cooled condenser. Air-Cooled Condensers Air-cooled condensers...
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The “mismatch” that causes medical tube extrusion problems
Occasionally, I hear from tubing extruders who are having trouble getting the level of precision and quality they want. Some ask if it might be a problem with Conair downstream equipment – like our MedVac® cooling/sizing tanks – or how they are using them. Usually, however, their troubles relate to...
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Portable Chillers Versus Central Chillers: Which is Best?
There are two types of chillers: portable chillers and central chillers. Portable chillers are typically smaller in capacity (30-40 tons or less), simpler in overall design, and lower in installed cost. Equipped with caster wheels, they are easy to move, easy to connect (using flexible hoses), and easy to power...
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Chiller Essentials for Plastics Processors
What is a chiller? A chiller is a heat-transfer device that uses mechanical refrigeration to remove heat from a process load and transfers the heat to the environment. Chillers are used by plastics processors when they need a lower process fluid temperature than a simpler system, such as a cooling...
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The Advantages of Plastics Granulators and Plastics Shredders
Just because plastics granulators and plastics shredders operate differently, and each has different advantages, does not mean that processors have to choose between them. Often, these two size-reduction methods complement each other: shredders perform coarse size-reduction, with scrap subsequently channeled into a granulator for final sizing into consistent, uniform feed...
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The Characteristics of Plastics Granulators and Plastics Shredders
Nearly all of the different kinds of scrap generated in a plastics plant – bottles, sprues, runners, small and large molded parts, film, sheet, pipe, profiles, fibers, purgings – can be processed using either a plastics granulator or a plastics shredder. So, how in a particular application, can you determine...
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