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Telford training centre selects Bunting Drawer Filter Magnet
THE Polymer Training & Innovation Centre in Telford has added a Bunting Magnetics Drawer Filter Magnet to the range of equipment at their plastics manufacturing training facility.
The FF Drawer Filter Magnet attracts and captures fi ne and coarse magnetically susceptible materials that enter the plastics manufacturing process.
Bunting Magnetics is one of the world’s leading suppliers of Magnetic Separators and Metal Detectors. The European manufacturing headquarters are based in Berkhamsted in Hertfordshire, UK and they have an extensive overseas network of distributors and marketing agents.
The Polymer Training & Innovation Centre provides polymer training and consultancy, specialising in injection moulding, blow moulding and extrusion training. They are a technical training and consultancy business owned by City of Wolverhampton College.
Great support from the industry
At their Telford training facility, the Polymer Training & Innovation Centre has working production-sized plastics manufacturing equipment for injection moulding, blow moulding, thermoforming, materials handling, and a wide range of other important ancillary equipment.
Technical Trainer, Andrew Dermody, explained the importance of trainees having practical training on the equipment. He said: “We have great support from the industry and equipment manufacturers such as Bunting.
“This support means that we can deliver practical training with a hands-on approach, and that is the best way for our delegates to learn. Having the Drawer Filter Magnet installed, exactly as it would be in a production plant, is an ideal way to show our students best-practice and highlight the importance of metal removal.”
The training facility at Telford was refurbished in early 2017 and Bunting supplied the FF Drawer Filter Magnet this March. The FF Grate Magnet is bolted onto the bottom fl ange of a Summit Systems fed hopper.
The Magnetic Separator has a transparent front plate so operators are able to see the material passing through, or held within the system. Virgin plastic beads fall from the hopper through two rows of high strength Tube Magnets, which attract and hold any magnetically susceptible materials.
The Tube Magnets use ultra-strong, permanent, Neodymium Rare Earth Magnets, and the cleaned plastic beads are then fed
DONE Deal: Technical Trainer Andrew Dermody (LEFT) stands with Bunting Sales Engineer Tom Higginbottom
into the Engel injection moulding machine. Removing all metal contamination ensures the fi nal plastic product is free from defects, and reduces the amount of waste and potential damage to moulding machines.
Andrew Dermody continued: “The Bunting design is good, as it is very visible. Often Magnetic Separators are placed out of sight in hoppers, which means that they can be forgotten.
“In this installation, the Drawer Filter Magnet is right in front of the machine operator, and the clear front allows easy visual checking of the magnets.”
Regarded as standard
Bunting also supplied Drawer Filter Magnets for use in the classroom, and the Polymer Training & Innovation Centre plan to incorporate ‘metal separation’ as one of the course topics.
The Drawer Grate Magnet is widely regarded as standard for the plastics industry, and Bunting has supplied thousands to plastics manufacturing operations globally.
“It is great delegates are able to see, in practice, the importance of having good Magnetic Separation equipment in the plastics process,” said Tom Higginbottom, Bunting’s Sales Engineer.
“Even with virgin raw materials, there is always a small amount of fi ne ferrous metal contamination and there is always the risk of larger tramp iron that could seriously damage the injection moulding machine.”
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