Customer’s Choice
JEDA Polymers Chooses ENTEK (continued from page 1)
Technical Challenges with Color Compounding When compounding their materials, JEDA uses a unique, proprietary color process to make color changeovers faster, easier, and drive down their production costs. While JEDA’s color process has advantages, it can also be challenging to process in a twin-screw extruder.
“We went to ENTEK looking to develop a stable process to run our proprietary formulation through the twin-screw extruder,” said John Deeken. “It’s important to find the best way – where, when, and how – to feed the formula into the machine.”
When initial attempts didn’t produce the desired results, ENTEK’s Technical Processing Manager, Dean Elliott, came up with an idea for using ENTEK’s new Vacuum Feed Technology (VFT) to optimize the process. It was discovered that VFT, which is designed for processing light fluffier materials, also worked well to pull out excess gas from JEDA’s process.
“We were using this formulation with our other extruders, but we really improved the process with ENTEK’s machinery/ technology,” said John Deeken. “Their processing expertise was and is extremely valuable to us.”
Service, Service, Service JEDA purchased and installed an ENTEK QC3
-43mm
twin-screw extruder with VFT in 2019. While the machine meets or exceeds all their expectations, JEDA is most happy with ENTEK’s customer service.
“Working with ENTEK is refreshing; their support team always follows up, and makes sure any and all issues are resolved,” said John Deeken. “ENTEK’s team provides impressive service and overall are a great technical partner; they want to ensure we are getting the most out of our machinery.”
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