Novatec – Maguire Purging Recovery System

What do you do with your purgings?

Throw them out? How many lbs/year are you throwing out? Sell them? How much do you get paid for them? Pay someone to have them shredded and granulated for you? Can you reuse them in your process?

The Purging Recovery System is an economical way for processors . . . → Read More: Novatec – Maguire Purging Recovery System

Rapid Granulator Small 150 Series with Docking Feature

The Rapid docking style granulator will fit into a workcell when a typically designed granulator is too tall. This 150 series docking concept is used when an auger granulator is not the best choice for safety reasons, or when the runner is flexible and can get wrapped around the auger. The hopper is much shorter than a normal hopper, the control box is compact, and . . . → Read More: Rapid Granulator Small 150 Series with Docking Feature

Recent CO Engel – Novatec Installation

GE Healthcare/Vital Signs Engel 250 ton e-Motion

Vital Signs, a GE Healthcare company, recently installed two new Engel all electric machines, along with Novatec-Maguire blenders with the new touch screen controls. The two machines are a 110 ton e-Max, using Engel’s LC200 controls, and a 250 ton e-Motion using Engel’s CC 200 controls. The machines are used to produce proprietary medical components for GE Healthcare . . . → Read More: Recent CO Engel – Novatec Installation

Novatec / Maguire Gaylord Sweeper

Greatly reduce the amount of labor associated with a typical gaylord unloading station. A typical gaylord unload station utilizing a gaylord tilter, really needs a lot of attention, and it uses quite a bit of floor space.

Think about some of the problems typical with a gaylord tilter:

A fair amount of floor space above and beyond the size . . . → Read More: Novatec / Maguire Gaylord Sweeper

Energy Saving Series: Vacuum Drying

This is one in a series of articles that will deal specifically with ideas for energy saving products and technologies. Here we will specifically discuss the Novatec VDR Vacuum Resin Dryer.       Save energy– If your plant uses a large number of dryers, this topic is important, because drying plastic pellets can be one . . . → Read More: Energy Saving Series: Vacuum Drying

Plastic Pellet Drying, in a Novatec vacuum dryer

Novatec – Maguire Vacuum Dryer

For the right applications, Novatec’s VRD Series of dryers have a significant number of advantages over dryers using conventional dryer technologies.

Take a typicl size dryer used in the Rocky Mountain area, something sized for a 25 lb/hr throughput, drying Polycarbonate:

Footprint is 23″ x 26.5″ There is NO . . . → Read More: Plastic Pellet Drying, in a Novatec vacuum dryer

LSR and Rubber Mold Cooling Safety Circuit

If power goes off during LSR or Rubber injection molding operation, and stays off for enough time, the material can set up in the mold and can sometimes be difficult to remove. One solution is to tie city water supply or set up an auxiliary pump that kicks in when power is lost, and add a circuit can to the Mold . . . → Read More: LSR and Rubber Mold Cooling Safety Circuit

Closed Loop Water Tower

Isolate your tower water from your process to minimize maintenence on molds and heat exchangers

Recently, a Utah medical molder was expanding their operation, and installed what is termed a Closed Loop Water Tower system. Realizing that tower water can contaminate heat

 exchangers and molds without careful and overly expensive treatment, it was desirable to isolate the water that runs through the tower from the machinery and equipment in the plant. Outdoor space for the tower stand was also an issue due to the location of the facility and the desire to maximize the available property square footage.

Advantage Engineering provided a Closed Loop Tower Cell solution. This type of system is designed to Continue reading Closed Loop Water Tower

Green Cooling Towers

Conventional cooling towers use a LOT of water

The adiabatic cooling tower, a green tower solution, significantly reduces the amount of water used to cool your process. Under certain conditions, it actually runs in a dry cooling tower mode, wasting no water. When ambient temperatures permit, the tower is acting a a fluid cooler, simply circulating process water through a coil, cooling the fluid with ambient air. This works especially well in cooler climates, or climates with large temperature swings between day and night. In the adiabatic mode, Continue reading Green Cooling Towers