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EuroWire – March 2011 62
technology news
A gravimetric blender 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.
The new blender accommodates process
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
chamber, permitting rapid colour change
without the use of tools.
Maguire Products – USA
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Making it easier for
the end users
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
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 QR codes are more useful than barcodes in that they can store (and
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."
Get your news – quicker!
The March issue of Wire and Cable ASIA sporting ▲ ▲
the QR code in the top right hand corner