EOW March 2014

wire 2014 show

7 - 11 April

The company has 65 years’ experience and more than 400 employees. Madem Group – Brazil Website : www.madem.com.br

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.

➣➢➣ • 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. 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. • 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%. • 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. • 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. ▲ MLS Clear-Vu™ loading system, left, with receivers atop a Maguire weigh scale blender, right

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