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  • By plind
    November 20, 2024

    Bringing our Best to You

    Employee-led Project/Systems Installation Teams Anyone who has contracted for a major project or installation knows the anxiety of assuming risk – committing not only your resources, but your expectations, trust, and vision for success well before you can see and judge the outcome.  On every project, from greenfield plant installations...

  • By plind
    September 18, 2024

    Saving energy, cutting operating costs — in more ways than you think!

    Managing your plastics processing costs goes beyond labor and equipment to utilities, specifically energy consumption and cost.  And, as auxiliary equipment evolves, Conair continues to pursue energy-saving improvements throughout its product lines. Energy-saving potential may be realized in everything from simple design choices, such as improved insulation, to the selection...

  • By Matt Shope
    August 14, 2024

    Getting Primed for More Regrind

    Making productive use of not only in-house plastic scrap but also incorporating post-consumer material is essential to fulfilling recycling and sustainability goals. But the varied nature of scrap material and regrind can pose real challenges to reprocessing. Today, many processes can incorporate a modest amount of scrap (5-15%) without too...

  • By plind
    June 19, 2024

    How Artificial Intelligence can Transform your Business Operations

    Artificial Intelligence may be defined as the ability for computers or computer-controlled equipment to autonomously make complicated decisions or adjustments that would normally require human intelligence or intervention. To understand Conair’s approach to implementing Artificial Intelligence in auxiliary equipment, start where we did, with the problems that every processor faces:...

  • By plind
    April 17, 2024

    Conair Team to Showcase New Products at Bigger-Than-Ever NPE2024

    From May 6 to 10, some 55,000+ plastics industry people are expected to descend on Orlando’s Orange County Convention Center for NPE2024. NPE2024 is the largest plastics industry exposition in the Americas, featuring more than 2,000 companies exhibiting the latest plastics processing technology within over 1.1 million square feet of...

  • By plind
    February 28, 2024

    Conair Looks to Make the New Year Count

    In 2023, Conair marketed a bold new challenge to its customers, to “Make Every Pellet Count.” It’s a challenge that encompasses not only providing the broadest line of auxiliary equipment, but also the knowledge, advice, technical and field service that plastics processors worldwide need to transform feedstock – plastic pellets...

  • By sszakelyhidi
    March 4, 2023

    Conair Builds On Success

    Company continues as a local and global leader in the industry In 2022, Conair grew stronger due to two important factors. First, Conair and its parent company, IPEG, became part of Italy’s Piovan Group in an acquisition completed in January. Combining Piovan’s dominant position in Europe, the Middle East, and...

  • By Rich Shaffer
    May 10, 2022

    How to Reduce the Burden of Plastic Scrap and Maintain Product Quality

    A certain level of scrap or unacceptable parts is inevitable in any process. Whether it is the 3.4 occurrences per million units envisioned by Six Sigma quality adherents or a much higher percentage, it represents a drain on productivity and profitability, and keeping it to the absolute minimum possible should...

  • By Alan Landers
    March 15, 2022

    How to Overcome the Top 5 Challenges in Plastics Manufacturing

    How are you managing the costs of production in order to deliver plastic products at a price that is both attractive to your customer and profitable for you, the processor? In order to deliver products that customers need, every plastics processor faces the imperative of combining the following aspects of...

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