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The New Common Control Interface and How it Helps You
Computerized controls have brought a lot of benefits to the plastics processing industry. But the trouble is, there are a whole lot of different types—different control platforms and human-machine interfaces (HMIs). And, when different pieces of equipment have to work together—like the different pieces of auxiliary equipment that support plastics...
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Need Space to Expand? Mezzanine Space Might Help You
No processor ever plans to run out of floor space. More often, space problems are the sign of a growing business. The addition of even a few primary processing machines, together with needed auxiliary equipment, material handling and feeding, robots, and perhaps some value-added assembly or packing operations can consume...
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The Latest Plastics Packaging Market Trends You Need to Know
Conair is a full-line supplier of auxiliary equipment—including dryers, conveying systems, blenders and feeders, scrap-reclaim systems, heat-transfer (temperature control) systems, as well as upstream and downstream extrusion equipment—that are used by plastics packaging producers worldwide. Conair serves essentially all markets, from food and beverage, to medical and pharmaceutical, household products,...
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How to Ramp Up Medical-Grade Plastics Production for Increased Demand
Coping with the sudden pandemic threat of COVID-19 has turned much of the business world on its head, causing enormous changes in economic activity and product demand. At Conair, changes have rippled through our operations as well. Some customers are coping with production slowdowns, while others are rapidly adapting or...
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Why You Need Precision Maintenance and How to Get Started
Have you ever stopped in at one of the many “10-minute” or “quick” oil change locations? If so, you’ve heard and seen the service technicians there execute a good, basic example of “precision maintenance.” Above and below your car, they work down a list of very well established procedures—open the...
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“Passive” vs “active” equipment alarms: Know the difference, save 100X in costs!
Recently, our service team learned of a major equipment breakdown that ended up costing a processor a lot of money. What was unfortunate about this breakdown was that it could have been prevented at a cost of about 1/100th of the final repair bill. This huge savings would have been...
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Why our best ideas are always yours
I’ve worked most of my career in product development. And people who learn about that often ask: ‘Where do you get these ideas?’ ‘How do you know they’ll work?’ Good questions. The kind that make me wish I had really clever answers. But I don’t. The fact is, we get...
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How do you maintain plastics processing equipment?
Keeping every element of a plastics processing plant running, starting with the maintenance of primary and auxiliary processing equipment, is a big challenge. And, I find that people meet that challenge in different ways. So, how do you do it? What’s your “style” of maintenance? And what does the future...
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Charting a course to increased uptime? Start here.
Consider the support that your primary production equipment requires: Resin pellets are fed from a storage silo or surge bin through a conveying system (vacuum pump, control system, valves) to a receiver. Then, the resin moves to a gravimetric blender, where it receives the right color and additives, and on to...
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