Material Management

Lower Costs and Meet Production Demand

Milacron Material Management Equipment and Systems

Milacron offers silos for Bulk Storage of materials. Bulk Storage helps reduce your material cost by allowing you to buy material in bulk volume. Bulk Storage insures that you have an adequate and continuous supply of material when you need it.

• Capacity Range -1,040 to 6,015 cubic feet.
• Bolted and Welded designs available.
• Can be adapted for truck or rail car fill.

Common Options Include:

• High / low level sensors
• Continuous level indicator
• Vacuum take- away boxes
• Crossovers (to connect more than one silo)
• Truck-fill kits.

Convenience and Space Savings

Milacron Material Management Equipment and Systems

Milacron offers a complete line of in-plant surge bins for convenient storage of blended or virgin materials.

• Standard capacities 1,000 to 4,000 pounds. (Larger sizes available on request)
• Square configuration that minimizes floor space.
• Lid equipped with a loader hole pattern that readily accepts vacuum loading.
• Lower discharge sections are available in 45 degrees and 60 degrees to allow full emptying of bin.
• Heavy-duty angle iron support legs provide either minimum or gaylord clearance.
• Available options: level indicators, ladder, leg extensions, side drain, and 4" diameter view window

Move Material Efficiently Using Less Floor Space

Milacron Material Management Equipment and Systems

Milacron Vacuum Loading Systems are specifically designed to move a wide variety of powders, resins and dusty regrinds with different particle sizes and structure. Milacron Vacuum Pumps can be used as a single station unit, or provided with multiple station controls to service any number of machines.

• Milacron's CM-VLP positive displacement Vacuum Pumps are driven by a 230V or 460V, 3-phase motor.
• A broad range of sizes allows the selection of a system for maximum efficiency.
• Compact design allows for minimum use of floor space.
• Included vacuum switch electrically signals the systems vacuum status to the Microprocessor Controller.
• Accessories included are: vacuum gauge, muffler, vacuum relief valve, and belt guards.

Milacron floor filters have large capacity pleated fiber filters to protect the vacuum pump from contamination. The filter is easy to access by quick-release clamps located on the lid of the filter canister. Fines are removed by placing a container under the filter and removing the expansion plug. For very dusty materials, or for applications using regrind, a cyclone pre-filter can be used.

Load, Feed, Blend…Accurate and Simple

Milacron Material Management Equipment and Systems

Dual Vacuum Chambers & Blender

Self Contained Vacuum Loader

Color/Additive Feeder

Color Feeders
Milacron's Additive Color Feeders provide adjustable metering rate of color concentrate or other pelletized additives. The feeder's flanged riser section mounts directly below the processing machine's supply hopper. The distribution section resists jamming, and directs the flow of primary material from the hopper around the unrestricted additive flow, combining materials just above the processing machine's feed screw.

Milacron Color Feeders are designed for the most demanding applications:

• The riser is fabricated of heavy-duty mild steel and is suitable for mounting drying hoppers.
• The cast auger housing is designed for durability and strength.
• Gear motors used for driving the augers are permanent magnet DC motors that utilize 0 to 130 volt speed controls and heavy-duty gear reducers.
• Rates from 0.45 to 800 pounds per hour can be achieved with quick-change augers, liners and motors.

Loaders
Milacron Loaders are designed for conveying virgin pellets or reground plastic materials of specified capacities for limited distances.

Milacron's Self Contained Loaders:

• Are packaged with tubing and hardware for quick installation.
• The vacuum blower/motor assembly is mounted on the vacuum chamber lid, and combined with standard modular chamber parts to create a single-station loader.
• Designed for limited conveying distance and capacity. Please refer technical data sheets for proper sizing.

Milacron's CML-LS series loaders feature:

• Fully automatic, self-contained vacuum loading with modular construction for "beside-the-press" applications conveying virgin pellets or reground plastic materials.
• Standard CM-SSL control and a compressed air, self-cleaning filter system.

Blenders
Milacron Blenders offer exceptional accuracy for blending resins and additives of various densities:

• Wide range of throughputs available with motor/auger combinations.
• Over 100 models to blend up to 12 components at rates up to 5,000 lbs. per hour.
• Stainless steel construction assures excellent durability.
• Designed for easy cleaning.

 

Maintain Optimum Moisture

Milacron Material Management Equipment and Systems

Dryer with Dual Hoppers

Drying Hopper

Milacron offers a complete line of portable dehumidifying dryers for applications requiring 30 cfm to 150 cfm.

• Lightweight.
• Polished stainless steel housing.
• Available MC Blower Feed Package to mount the dryer and hopper to a portable stand with a blower motor providing dry air conveying of material to the machine feedthroat.

For applications over 150 cfm, Milacron offers a twin tower dryer design that supplies continuous dry air up to -40 F dewpoint:

• Fully automatic desiccant regeneration.
• Full-flow return air filtration.
• Full desiccant utilization with solid bed design.
• Optional energy efficient gas fired process and regeneration heaters are available.