NEW: Centralized Multi-Channel Batch Compounder by Liad Weighing and Control Systems Ltd.

LIAD has introduced MultiSave, a new gravimetric batch compounder that significantly improves plastics manufacturing job management, reduces capital expenditures and improves factory efficiency.

The new gravimetric batch compounder simplifies and improves plastics raw material processing by centralizing the compounding of all plastic raw materials within a single system. As opposed to the traditional gravimetric batch blender which is limited to the number of machines it can serve due to the multitude of formula variations (and therefore requires factories to be outfitted with a large number of gravimetric batch blenders), a single batch compounding system takes up only 5 meters squared, and is capable of supplying up to 24 processing machines.

MultiSave is comprised of up to 14 different weighing units which weigh in parallel all of the factory’s raw materials. Via an array of individual chutes and a common funnel, MultiSavet makes use of an advanced set of algorithms to weigh and distribute the different recipes via a single automatic manifold, which are then sent via tubing to the corresponding injection machine.

MultiSave improves production plastics job management speed by dedicating a weighing chamber for each individual bin; thereby weighing in parallel all of the batch components. In addition to the enhanced weighing speed, the new raw material processing system enables the use of significantly smaller load cells; thereby affording higher batch accuracy with a relatively high throughput.