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From Bulk Storage to Machine-Side: Why Conveying Is Essential to Plastics Processing
Conveying resin isn't just part of the process—it’s critical to plastics manufacturing. Whether you are a small or large operation, moving material efficiently and reliably is what keeps your production running. A Look Back In the early days, resin movement was entirely manual—think gaylords at the dock, buckets, ladders, and...
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Servicing the Desiccant Rotor on a Conair Carousel Plus Dryer
The desiccant rotor used in Carousel Plus dryers from Conair have a practically unlimited operational life, as long as they are kept clean of contamination from plastic dust, fines and volatiles. Conair Carousel Plus dryers are equipped with ample, easy to clean filtering systems that should permit years of trouble-free...
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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...
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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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