Case Study | Speed-controlled plastic vacuum conveying

A major customer with a production facility in Monterrey, Mexico, is already benefiting from these energy-saving opportunities. motan-colortronic supplied and installed all equipment for the site's fully automated and centrally controlled material handling system. More than 500 gravimetric mixing and dosing systems from motan's GRAVICOLOR series are in operation there, along with over 1,500 material loaders. The Ethernet-based control system, combined with a higher-level display system, enables the integration of the control systems required for drying, mixing, conveying, and storage. Each of the production lines, each with approximately 25 injection molding machines for new goods and regrind, is supplied by two Velocis side-channel compressors from the Elmo Rietschle Division of Gardner Denver. Detlev Schmidt, Head of Sales at motan-colortronic, explains the key advantages of the system concept in terms of operational reliability. "The compressors are completely maintenance-free and extremely quiet," says Schmidt. According to him, another advantage of frequency-controlled devices is the possibility of economical transport thanks to the amount of compressed air adapted to the required material throughput.