Alimatic - Movacolor dosing

The Movacolor 24 dispenser, marketed in Spain by Alimatic, incorporates engine phased operation that does not contain graphite brushes. The engine may stop without damaging the engine or the driver. Precise speed control can be obtained easily and without being affected by extreme temperatures of the atmosphere. Even at very low speeds, the phased operation engine is extremely precise. It is also equipped with a controller with microprocessor, programmable memory and a battery backup. To start the production, the user enters the desired amount, in percentages using the membrane keyboard. The microprocessor determines the speed of the motor required, freeing the user from tedious calculations and conjectures.

Movacolor, through Alimatic, also offers the Movacolor 16, a cheaper model for simple applications

Maguire (represented by Alimatic) specialist in Gravimetric dosing of feedstock for plastics is 15 years old, while sales of its scale mixer Weigh Scale Blender (WSB) Maguire r still in full bloom. Innovation allows to expand further the scope of the WSB. Manufacturers are discovering the capabilities of this system automation and its advantages over other teams more costly and complex, as weight loss mixer and volumetric.

The mixer Maguire is selling at a rate of 250-300 units per month; the 27,000 unit of the WSB just be embedded, and the figure goal of 30,000 units is less than a year of distance.

Manufacturers who ever used expensive pre-coloreadas resins, for example, now use the WSB of Maguire to mix colors on a lot and Virgin resin. Also the WSB makes it possible to incorporate material for remolido with greater confidence, because that material from reprocessing and Virgin resin and additive mixture is homogeneous.

An interesting feature: when mixing conventional devices are mounted on the upper part of the moulding machines injection, its accuracy may be compromised by the vibration of the press to run its cycle. "Maguire has been used since long ago, the technology for the control of the vibration and damping which allows the WSB verify readings of the weight of the lot at high speed, even in the shorter molding cycles," said Smith. This has resulted a volumetric systems change dosage systems gravity, simpler and less costly, among the European manufacturers.

Alimatic also sells the dosing units and stations Plasticolor mixers, which are used for accurately measuring the dosage of compounds such as pigments, milled materials or virgin materials. There are four sizes available dosing units with ranges of delivery of material from 100 g/hour at 2400 kg/hour. Rapid emptying the possibility of sampling during production are already standard aspects of units dosing, there other options available.