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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...
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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...
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Older Chillers, New Refrigerant Rules: Five Things to Know
1. Why are HFC refrigerants being phased out? Most cooling and refrigeration equipment, including chillers used in plastics processing, rely on hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) refrigerant gases to operate effectively. HFC refrigerants were created in the 1990s to replace chlorofluorocarbons (CFC) refrigerants, which damage the Earth’s protective ozone layer. The most commonly...
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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:...
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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...
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Gravimetric Control Improves Extruded Pipe Processing
The key to optimum profitability in extrusion is pretty simple: Run a quality product at the minimum material specification while maintaining a maximum line rate. But achieving this balance—and the payoff it provides—is tricky because there are so many factors to manage simultaneously, including: Material mix Extruder output Extrudate fit...
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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...
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Establishing a Good Baseline for a Successful Preventative Maintenance Plan
For successful Preventative Maintenance, begin with a baseline, then adjust as needed Preventative maintenance (PM) is essential for any organization that relies on machinery to operate at high level of efficiency. Creating an effective PM plan requires a deep understanding of the equipment application and operating environment. Successful PM starts...
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Conair does Water Systems
Most people in the plastics industry know Conair for a wide variety of auxiliary equipment, including heat-transfer products like temperature control units, portable and central chillers, adiabatic coolers, cooling tower systems, pump tanks, heat exchangers, strainers and filters, and more. But not as many people know that Conair has a...
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What’s new at Conair? A restructured Systems Group for faster quotes and a focus on project management
Any time you need multiple pieces of plastics equipment that work as part of your plastics processing plant, Conair considers that a “system.” Your system might include multiple receivers with vacuum lines and material lines connected to a pump. Or it might be a central drying system with multiple hoppers....
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