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Conquering Complexity at Plastikos
With an astounding amount of complexity driving its operations, the success of Plastikos’ 105 employees begins with a solid training program that has admittedly been ‘ramped up’ over the past five years.
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In-line or Off-line
Decorating: A 10-Step Analysis
Should we run our decorating system in-line with our molding machine? Furthermore, should we run our molding machine and decorating system in-line with our assembly machine and subsequent packaging system? These are significant questions that are deliberated when proposing the lowest possible unit cost system that will operate in an efficient and economical fashion.
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Supply Chain: What You May Not be Thinking About
Most organizations are unprepared for a major supply chain disruption. Companies don’t have supply chain continuity plans, they don’t ask themselves the right questions and basically have a policy of, “I hope that doesn’t happen to us.” If Japan has taught us anything, it should be that hope is not a plan.
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The Latest...
Tekleen Develops Low Pressure
Water Filter
A new line of fully automatic
self-cleaning water filters from Tekleen Automatic
Filters, of Los Angeles, CA, are ideal for a variety of
plastic processing applications. The LPF Series Filters,
which can work with pressure as low as 15psi, save time
and money, and utilize new screen cleaning technology
called Tekrinse. The filters range from 1”to 36” line
size and can filter down to 2 micron. See Tekleen at NPE
2012 in booth 3992 at the Orange County Convention
Center, Orlando, FL. For more information, visit
www.tekleen.com,
email info@tekleen.com
or call 800.336.1942.
Conair Doubles
Capacity of Material-Handling Control
The FLX material-handling control
system from The Conair Group, Cranberry Township, PA,
now is available in a new larger configuration to serve
up to 64 loaders and 20 vacuum conveying pumps. This
top-end capacity is double that of the original FLX
system. Designed to be affordable and easy to install
and expand, a processor could start with an FLX system
to manage just eight loaders and two pumps (one primary
pump and one back-up pump), and then increase capacity
and capabilities in manageable increments when
necessary, simply by adding input and output cards. The
system can include such high-level functions as
multi-source/multi-destination loading, purge, ratio
loading, ratio loading with purge, reverse conveying for
regrind recovery, loader fill sensing, output sharing
between FLX control panels, Ethernet communication and
more. For more information, visit
www.conairgroup.com.
Chroma Expands
its Production Capabilities
Chroma Corporation, McHenry, IL,
has added six new extruders to its production facility
to enable the company to offer quicker turn around and
shorter lead times on the continually growing small
order segment of the business, particularly in the area
of small lot color concentrates. The company also
recently completed a laboratory expansion that more than
doubled the size of its color development lab and added
six new 38-ton injection molding machines. In the past
several years, the thermoplastic compound raw material
provider has introduced photoluminescent products,
antimicrobials and glow putty. For more information,
visit www.chromacolors.com.
Frigel Announces Joint Venture to Begin Manufacturing in
Asia
Florence, Italy-based Frigel Firenze SpA has announced
its intention to form a joint venture with Hong
Kong-based Chudleigh-Sutch Technologies Co., Ltd. and
Osaka, Japan-based Matsui Mfg. Co., Ltd. to form Frigel
Asia Pacific Co., Ltd. The new company will be based in
Bangkok, Thailand and will provide centralized sales,
service and manufacturing support for all of Asia
Pacific. In addition to Frigel’s industry leading
expertise in the design and manufacture of process water
cooling equipment, Frigel Asia Pacific will add
Chudleigh-Sutch’s turn-key systems and customized
automation handling equipment product lines to Frigel’s
global product portfolio. In addition to forming
a joint venture to commence operations in Asia Pacific,
Frigel has recently announced plans to begin
manufacturing in both North and South America, to
complement their existing established sales and service
channels. For more information, visit
www.frigel.it.
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