EoW March 2011

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Making it easier for the end users

throughputs up to 400kg (900lb) per hour, more than double the maximum throughput for the next-largest Maguire blender equipped with removable hopper bins. “The WSB 260R4 blender is ideal for processors who make frequent product or colour changes, since they can quickly empty and refill the removable bins or even keep pre-loaded duplicate bins on standby, reducing the time for colour changes to the few seconds it takes to replace one bin with another,” said Frank Kavanagh, Maguire Products sales manager. The lightweight removable bins are equipped with integral shutoffs to eliminate spillage and hinged lids for easy clean-out. There is easy access to all material contact surfaces of the blender, hoppers, feeders, weigh chamber and mixing

A design innovation that has reduced downtime and enhanced user-friendliness for plastics operations in the low throughput range is now available in a medium-capacity blender required by many injection moulders and extrusion processors. The Maguire® WSB 260R4 has six hopper bins, including two large ones for natural resin and regrind and four minor-ingredient bins that are removable for fast colour and additive changes and easy cleanout. While materials in the large bins are dispensed by means of slide gates like those in many other Maguire blenders, additive dispensing is carried out with vertical valves, which provide a high degree of accuracy when dosing minor ingredients. gravimetric blender INTRAS has started using QR codes – on its own magazines and also for clients. This issue of EuroWire and the March edition of Wire and Cable ASIA has the QR code displayed on the front cover and this will soon be rolled out across the rest of the group’s wire and tube titles. The QR (short for ‘quick response’) code is a special matrix barcode that can be read quickly by a camera phone, displaying text, contact information, and web pages. “It’s really exciting news for our readers and advertisers,” said editor David Bell. “It opens up a whole range of new possibilities, using the very latest technology to give our readers instant access to information within our magazines, further promoting our advertisers’ products and technology , all direct from the page.” The new blender accommodates process

chamber, permitting rapid colour change without the use of tools. Maguire Products – USA Fax : +1 610 459 2700 Email : info@maguire.com Website : www.maguire.com The large hopper at top left in this photo of the ▲ ▲ Maguire® WSB 260R4 actually consists of two bins for natural resin and regrind. To the right of this hopper are four minor-ingredient bins for colours and additives

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digitally present) much more data, including URL (uniform resource identification) and text – and don't require a chunky hand-held scanner, just a camera phone. The QR code is made up of black modules arranged in a square pattern on a white background, not much bigger than a large postage stamp. “It takes less than a minute for someone with an i-Phone or Android phone to find and install a QR code reader," added David. "Once they’ve done that, they can have instant access to text, product information, contact details, news of events and exhibitions, competitions, coupons, links with social networks and so on. “They will be of great interest to our advertisers and will be extremely useful for our readers."

barcodes in that they can store (and The March issue of Wire and Cable ASIA sporting ▲ ▲ the QR code in the top right hand corner

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EuroWire – March 2011