MACHINERY | PELLETISERS
Right: Erema’s latest factory expansion includes optimised workplace areas that cut production lead times for specific assembly groups, including pelletiser components
area, a sensor sends an impulse to a drive to replace the clogged filter with a new one. Filtered water pours into the collecting tank below where it is sucked by a pump and sent to a heat exchanger to be cooled reintroduction into the underwater pelletiser.
Development support Germany-based ips Intelligent Pelletizing Solutions has also recently expanded the trial capabilities at its technical centre in Niedernberg. In addition to an underwater pelletising system ips-UWG 75 S and several conventional strand pelletising lines, the company now also has an automatic strand pelletising system ips-SGA 220/2 available for internal development trials and customer trials. “This allows us, under conditions which come very close to those in actual production, to indi- vidually develop the optimum layout of a strand pelletising system for our customers, on the one hand, and to further develop our systems in an ideal test environment, on the other,” says ips Managing Partner, Gerald Weis. “In addition, our customers have the opportunity to experience the system not only virtually as a computer simulation, but actually live.” He says the ips-SGA/2 system is deployed in
particular in the compounding and recycling industry for processing filled and/or reinforced technical thermoplastics at rates of up to 4 t/h, depending on the application and the dimensions of the pellets. “It is an attractive alternative to conventional strand pelletising lines and is charac- terised by simple operation and a high standard of process reliability,” he claims.
Weiss points to the easy start-up of the pelletis-
ing process, automatic re-threading after strand breakages, integrated strand drying for low residual moisture, and the variable cooling section for the polymer strands prior to cutting. “It can be integrated simply and flexibly into existing produc- tion lines and, compared to conventional strand pelletising, offers higher manufacturing yield with lower staff costs,” he says. The modular ips-SGA/2 is available for working widths and cutting widths from 120 to 420 mm. Meanwhile, recycling technology specialist
Erema says the opening of the new assembly shop 4 at its Ansfelden, Austria, location last April allowed it to adopt a production process which is better geared towards future customer require- ments. It says this new approach enables shorter production lead times for the individual assembly groups, such as melt filters and pelletisers, while at the same time increasing product quality. “Customers benefit from lead times being significantly reduced, increased delivery reliability and a further increase in quality standards,” says CEO Manfred Hackl. “The expansion of our produc- tion capacities was a logical next step due to the increased demand for our technology. In doing so we made a conscious decision to optimise the production processes at the same time.”
Right: ips Intelligent Pelletizing Solutions now has an ips-SGA 220/2 automatic strand pelletising system available for internal development and customer trials at its German technical centre
26 COMPOUNDING WORLD | January 2018
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