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Luxor – energy-efficient drying units

Luxor – energy-efficient drying units

Motan has completely re-engineered its drying bins. The clean-out doors on our new LUXOR dryers are now twice as large. Not only do these larger doors greatly improve access, they also allow the hopper loader discharge flap to be cleaned easily and simply from the front. In addition, the doors are designed specifically for the bin’s, preventing bridging while optimising materials flow.

Motan-Colortronic's Minicolor with disc dosing

Motan-Colortronic's Minicolor with disc dosing

Motan-Colortronic provides Minicolor dosing units with disc dosing. They are particularly suitable for consistent dosing of small quantities and for applications where screw dosing is too imprecise or unsuitable due to the properties of the bulk material. Moreover, disc dosing is ideal for fast cycling injection moulding and for force-fed extruders.

The realization of the perfect temperature controller

The realization of the perfect temperature controller

When asking moulders about their mental picture relating to temperature controllers, replies frequently include expressions such as: “low-cost purchase or leasing, easy installation, switch on and forget about it until the next mould change.”

Mann+Hummel ProTec at the Fakuma 2009

Mann+Hummel ProTec at the Fakuma 2009

This year’s Mann+Hummel ProTec presentation at the Fakuma trade fair in Friedrichshafen is focused on system solutions increasing effectiveness and efficiency of material handling in plastics processing.

Interview with Alessandro Grassi, General Manager of Frigosystem

Interview with Alessandro Grassi, General Manager of Frigosystem

Plastech publishes an interview with Alessandro Grassi, General Manager of Frigosystem. The company was one of the almost 700 exhibitors at Plastpol exhibition in Kielce, Poland, on May this year. Plastpol is the largest fair event dedicated to the plastics industry in Central and Eastern part of Europe.

Precisely dosed for high quality fleece fabric

Precisely dosed for high quality fleece fabric

Precisely dosed for high quality fleece fabric Process-stabilised dosing of all components directly during the manufacturing process – that is one of Mann+Hummel ProTec’s core competencies. The fleece manufacturer RKW Gronau relies on exactly this competence in its new nonwoven fabric plant. The SOMOS Gramix S9 gravimetric dosing and mixing system, designed for up to nine formula components, is integrated in the plant.

Luxor a light: new Motan's system dryer

Luxor a light: new Motan's system dryer

Motan introduced new Luxor A light. It is the system dryer that is designed for standard applications of all kind and targeted to material feeding for the plastics processing industry.

Rapid Silencing System is keeping it quiet in the workplace

Rapid Silencing System is keeping it quiet in the workplace

Introduced at Fakuma 2008, one product that is guaranteed not to make a big noise in the marketplace is the Rapid Silencing System (RSS) from Rapid Granulator AB, the Swedish world leader in plastics granulation technology. With increasingly stringent noise constraints being applied to the workplace by national and EU regulatory authorities, the RSS offers moulders and OEMs an innovative noise reducing solution.