wire
2014
show
7 - 11 April
March 2014
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The company has 65 years’ experience and more than 400
employees.
Madem Group – Brazil
Website
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Maguire Europe
Stand: 10G46
Maguire Europe will introduce a wide-ranging portfolio of
technologies that enable manufacturers to save costs while
ensuring compliance with the stringent electrical and physical
requirements for wire and cable insulation and jacketing.
The exhibit will feature equipment for accurate conveying,
loading, drying, blending and dosing of polymer compounds and
additives, along with systems that use real-time data on material
consumption to regulate the extrusion process and ensure
product consistency.
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Gravimetric blenders. The Maguire® weigh scale blender
controls the metering of materials into the extruder, including
compound and costly colourants and additives. Automatically
self-adjusting to compensate for variations in extrusion rate or
bulk density, the blender maintains accuracy within 0.1%.
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Gravimetric colour feeders. For low-throughput lines or
secondary “skin-layer” extruders, Maguire supplies the
MGF series of feeders, which install directly to the extruder
throat. Because the feeder hopper is mounted on load cells
that monitor the loss in weight of colourant as the material
is fed into the extruder by an auger, the device prevents
over-colouring, reduces colour consumption, increases control
over product quality, and documents colour usage for each
production run.
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Extrusion control systems. By compensating for the many
process variations typically encountered in extrusion,
Maguire’s LineMaster™ extrusion control system makes
possible increased product uniformity, savings in raw material,
faster startups, quicker job changes, less scrap, and more rapid
accommodation to reel or bobbin changes. The heart of the
LineMaster system is a loss-in-weight (LIW) hopper mounted
on the throat of the extruder. The hopper is suspended on a
pair of load cells that continually monitor the weight of the
material in the hopper.
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Dryers. For resins, additives, and crosslinking catalysts that
must be dried before extrusion, Maguire o ers every type of
desiccant dryer as well as systems that use vacuum to remove
moisture. Unavailable from other suppliers, vacuum dryers
consume up to 60 per cent less energy in comparison with
desiccant dryers; eliminate the need to regenerate desiccant;
and reduce start-up time as a result of a drying cycle that is
only one-sixth as long.
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MLS Clear-Vu™ loading system, left, with receivers atop a Maguire weigh scale
blender, right
