While working with a newer customer in the state of Jalisco in Mexico, I was presented with their toughest changeover as the first test for Asaclean. It was a change from a flexible-pvc MP101 from Polyone to a polycarbonate from Bayer (Makrolon). This changeover is difficult due to the heat sensitivity of the pvc, and [...]
All sectors of the plastics industry must be flexible and capable of handling many different material types. With this comes the task of trying to be as prepared as possible to handle those last minute drop in orders. So the call is put out to the production floor to get Mold 17 set up and [...]
Asaclean U Grade was tested on a 500 ton Van Dorn Injection molding machine to clean glass filled Nylon (black to red to yellow) in a hot runner mold. The customer was leaving the g/f Nylon in the manifold when shutting down the tool. This caused the tips in the hot runner mold to break [...]
A company called in for help with cleaning their extruders. They were using the next resin and/or PP to purge, yet machine output was still decreasing (due to contamination not being cleaned out) and thereby causing them to pull the screw. This is an all-day process for them, creating considerable cost in downtime and loss [...]
Recently I was contacted by a large tier1 automotive supplier. They were having major color streaking issues on a valve gated hot runner Mercedes Lift gate tool. The interior panel was molded from talc-filled PP at 450°F in a 2,200 ton Toshiba injection machine. They had exhausted all options and decided to sample Asaclean UP [...]
I was contacted by a wire coating manufacturer located in New York. They were losing approximately $25,000 dollars per hour while there machine was down. Total down time would be around 5 hours. Total sales dollars lost: $125,000.00. Their down time would consist of: 1. Purging extruder. 2. Pulling the screw out of the extruder. [...]
First let’s start off by defining barrel residence time and barrel capacity. Barrel residence time is the time the resin spends from the first inception into the injection barrel until it leaves through the end of the nozzle. Barrel capacity is generally rated by the amount of polystyrene they can inject in one shot and [...]
http://www.plasticstoday.com/articles/asaclean-plans-new-high-temperature-purging-compound-announces-office-move-022020133
Last month, a consultant from an injection molding company in South Carolina, specializing in product development and small parts molding, reached out to us to evaluate the cost-effectiveness & overall value of Asaclean Purge Compounds (compared to current purge they were using, Slide Purge Compound). The goal of this project was to reduce costly downtime [...]
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