Resin Conveying

monitoring

Material Handling: New Battery-Powered Laser Level Sensor

Allows use of level sensors on silos or in remote locations where inventory monitoring has not been feasible.

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Drying

Material Handling: News in Conveying & Drying at Fakuma

Piovan introduces filterless receivers, upgraded coupling station, and new drying hoppers.

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Drying

Material Handling: Plant Supervisory Computer for Conveying, Loading, Drying, Cooling

Moretto’s Mowis 3 is the latest version of its plantwide surpervisory computer for materials handling and process cooling.

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Road Trip: Bulk-Handling Systems on Wheels

Coperion, Coperion K-Tron launch Traveling Equipment Display to showcase  solutions for handling bulk-solid materials.

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Material Handling:Plug-and-Play Screw Conveyor

Unit rolls below mezzanines and other low-headroom areas to receive material overhead.

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Resin Conveying

How to Maximize Your Conveying System Performance

If your conveying system isn’t up to snuff, and you don’t have the budget to overhaul or expand it, don’t lose hope. There are many factors that could be limiting your conveying performance, and a number of them cost little or nothing to fix.

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Lorenz Acquires Flow Valves International

Deal adds the Syntron and SMS Iris line of flow control valves, which serve as an alternative to butterfly- and slide-gate style valves.

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best practices

Switch to Centralized Vacuum Supply Saves Molder Energy, Boosts Production

Less maintenance means more time for processing, thanks to elimination of vacuum pumps at each press.

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Automation

Material Handling: Truck-Fill Line Prevents Silo-Filling Errors

New truck-fill line-proofing system prevents material mix-ups by remotely locking access to silo-fill lines so only the correct line can connect.

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Automation

Material Handling: Manage Bulk-Resin Storage for 30 Silos on One Touchscreen

New Railcar Unloading Controller manages railcar unloading, silo selection, material routing, and silo filling from one control inside the building.

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Plastics Size Reduction