Feeding technology ensures efficiency

At their booth A6-6406 in hall 6 at this year’s Faku­ma exhi­bi­tion (Octo­ber 16–20, 2018) Cope­ri­on and Cope­ri­on K‑Tron present first-class plas­tics pro­cess­ing solu­tions – espe­cial­ly solu­tions for the effi­cient feed­ing of bulk mate­r­i­al into the com­pound­ing process. On dis­play is a Cope­ri­on ZS‑B side feed­er which is used to feed raw mate­ri­als into numer­ous extru­sion process­es. The side feed­er is equipped with the patent­ed Feed Enhance­ment Tech­nol­o­gy (FET) that increas­es the mate­r­i­al intake capac­i­ty in the pro­cess­ing of feed lim­it­ed prod­ucts by up to three times. For the improved feed­ing accu­ra­cy of loss-in-weight feed­ers, Cope­ri­on K‑Tron will be pre­sent­ing the unique EPC elec­tron­ic pres­sure com­pen­sa­tion system.

Increased throughput with Feed Enhancement Technology

The Cope­ri­on ZS‑B twin screw side feed­er enables the reli­able side feed­ing of fillers and addi­tives in pow­der or pel­let form or cut glass fibers into the process sec­tion of the twin screw extrud­er. The ZS‑B fea­tures a self-clean­ing pro­file of the twin screws and prod­uct feed­ing into the screw flights of the extrud­er with­out stag­nant zones. It requires very lit­tle space due to its com­pact design. The side feed­er is equipped with the patent­ed FET Feed Enhance­ment Tech­nol­o­gy devel­oped by Cope­ri­on, which applies a vac­u­um to the feed zone by means of a porous, gas-per­me­able wall. The result­ing gas extrac­tion increas­es the mate­r­i­al intake capac­i­ty in the pro­cess­ing of feed lim­it­ed prod­ucts by up to three times. Through­put rates will con­sid­er­ably increase and the use of fin­er / non-com­pact­ed fillers is possible.

EPC system for loss-in-weight feeders

At Faku­ma, Cope­ri­on K‑Tron will be pre­sent­ing the elec­tron­ic pres­sure com­pen­sa­tion sys­tem (EPC) for their high-accu­ra­cy loss-in-weight feed­ers. The main advan­tages of the new sys­tem include improved accu­ra­cy and reli­a­bil­i­ty as well as low­er ini­tial cost and eas­i­er instal­la­tion com­pared to tra­di­tion­al mechan­i­cal pres­sure com­pen­sa­tion sys­tems. Cope­ri­on K‑Tron presents a clever but sim­ple elec­tron­ic solu­tion for accu­rate and steady pres­sure com­pen­sa­tion in feed­er hop­pers and out­lets. The mod­u­lar design incor­po­rates pres­sure sen­sors and elec­tron­ics tai­lored to inter­act smooth­ly with Cope­ri­on K‑Tron’s KCM feed­er con­trol sys­tem. Retro­fitting options for exist­ing feed­ers are avail­able. EPC can be installed on a major­i­ty of Cope­ri­on K‑Tron gravi­met­ric feed­ers in almost any appli­ca­tion and all industries.
Cope­ri­on at Faku­ma 2018: Hall 6, Stand A6-6406