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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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What would you do if? Solving three head-scratching equipment problems
Plastics processors know that it’s wise to be careful with a buck. Experience teaches if you can eliminate a problem with preventive maintenance, it is money well spent, since unplanned repairs and downtime cost about 10 times more than planned maintenance. But maintenance programs aren’t perfect and equipment problems arise...