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Testimonial : Labotek central material handling system
Sistema Plastics is a privately owned NZ company, manufacturing and marketing a range of injection and blow molded house wares, to world wide markets. In April 2007 Sistema selected Fleming Plastics Dynamics to install a Labotek central materials handling system into their injection moulding facility. Sistema were introduced to Labotek central systems in Germany at the K2004 exhibition and were duly impressed by the high build quality and flexible system design.
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Our brief for an optimum system was to achieve 5 key points and remain within our budget.
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Labotek were one of the few system suppliers available to meet this design brief. The system design was handled by the team at Fleming Plastics Dynamics and their experience and know how lead this specification and design stage. They supplied detailed computer generated principle and factory layout drawings allowing us to see exactly what was being proposed.
The installation was project managed by Fleming Plastics Dynamics using Sistema engineers. The project was completed ahead of time and exceeds all design requirements. From the initial introduction to Labotek at K2004 to the hand over of the system in July 2007 there have been no negatives.
Yes, I am very pleased Sistema made the Labotek choice.
Wayne Prendergast R&D
Testimonial : LABOTEK central material handling system
APERIO GROUP manufactures a range of blown polyethylene film products primarily for use in industrial, agricultural and food packaging applications. APERIO selected Fleming Plastics Dynamics to install a major Labotek central material handing system in 2006.
It has now been a little over 13 months since we commenced the installation and completed the commissioning of our Labotek central resin conveying system. The initial decision to go with Fleming Plastics was not arrived at in a hurry, it actually took over 2 years of research, continual discussion and a SWOT analysis by us of potential suppliers to eventually decide on Labotek as the provider for what was to be a rather large investment dollar and a sizable bit of gear.
This project had to be carried out while we operated our Plant, which sometimes can lead to much unexpected downtime. However in this case it was managed to perfection and production interruptions were maintained at the prearranged levels.
This project has managed to deliver us our projected labour savings and delivers resin into the Plant with very few problems, if any at all.
It is Operator friendly and the design makes it impossible for the incorrect material to be used.
Although it, the installation was not all a bed of roses, we did have the normal small teething problems that were managed by the Labotek / Fleming people in a timely and professional manner. Am I happy with my system, very much so.
David Cannell
Operations Manager Aperio Group - Film Extrusion
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System Criteria
The system is conveying over 3000kg/hr from 11 material silos & 8 1T bulk bags to 26 individual vacuum receivers. System is split into four mini systems controlled centrally on a 6" Colour Touch screen control based on Siemens Simatic WIN CC Flexible Software and ASI (actuator-sensor interface) fieldbus system. An in-built modem allows external supervision access and all parameters are password protected. A safe material selection coupling station protects operator error against incorrect material connection while allowing full flexibility of any material to any vacuum receiver. Included in the system is a loading by weight system allow automatic loading to mobile material bins to within 5kg. |
Testimonial : DynaCon® Modular Conveyors
When Coca-Cola Amatil began manufacturing PET bottles at Kings Park in 1997, Fleming's DynaCon® Modular Conveyor system was chosen for our conveying needs because of it's flexibility of configuration and lightweight construction, it's fully tracked moulded belt, aesthetics and proven operation.
Our requirements involved conveying preforms from 8 x 96 cavity Husky PET injection moulding machines up to a height of 3.5m, through a wall to where the preforms would be discharged into a counting machine. Fleming's were able to provide onsite design, layout recommendations, fully dimensioned diagrams and very competitive proposals.
Since their initial installation, all eight conveyors have undergone several configuration changes with little disruption to production. The ability to change the design many times without purchasing a completely new conveyor has resulted in substantial cost savings.
In a separate installation at our Brisbane plant we have also used the DynaCon Modular Conveyor System. This system involves two conveyors over 15m long, which are suspended from the ceiling.
After over four years of operation we are impressed with the performance of the DynaCon Modular Conveyor System and the support provided by Fleming Plastics Dynamics.
Yours Faithfully
Rhett Appleyard
PROJECT ENGINEER
Testimonial : Maguire® LPD Series
It might seem incredible, but Maguire vacuum dryer users discover benefits that they never imagined. "As a small to mid-sized custom molding shop doing 12 to 15 mold changes daily, we were looking for fast turnaround, less maintenance and a reliable, dependable dryer." states Rich Dommel of True Precision Plastics. "Truth is, I'm skeptical of new items, you' ve got to prove to me that it' llwork because we're very demanding running everything from ABS to Zytel® - A to Z, in a non-climate controlled environment."
True Precision Plastics found that they could drastically cut their drying time with the Maguire vacuum dryer. With a cold start-up it takes only about 40 minutes to dry material as opposed to desiccant dryers that take up to 4 or 5 hours. They also could eliminate bothersome dew pointchecks and surprisingly accelerate turnaround time of lastminute customer requests. Rich Dommel says. "Our customers are very demanding. They make us jump through hoops. With the Maguire dryer, we can turn around a customer request in a couple of hours and have parts on their way long before our old dryers would have even warmed up. Now there's competition in the plant for who gets the Maguire because everyone knows that reaction time and customer service is what our business is all about. I really believe in these dryers. I' ll never buy a desiccant dryer again."
But paying for itself in such a short time was just a bonus. "Originally, we were looking for vast reductions in our power costs and reduction of scrap rates by as much as 50%," says Michael Griffiths of Automotive Lighting Limited. "And we got it, even though injection moulding of clear polycarbonates is very difficult without contamination and splash marks."
Automotive Lighting Limited estimates over 85% reduction in power costs due to the Maguire vacuum dryer. And there were still more benefits like saving 50% on floor space because the Maguire dryer has such a small footprint. Because cold start-up for the Maguire dryer is only 15 to 30 minutes (compared to 4 to 5 hours using their conventional dehumidifier dryers), the introduction of the Maguire LPD dryer is providing an additional three and a half hours of production every week. This represents an additional month of productiontime per year.
It's really a matter of how well the equipment helps both your process and your people. Processors prefer Maguire because Maguire designs with the customer's needs in mind. No frills, no nonsense. And like all Maguire products, the Maguire LPD30 and LPD100 dryers are backed by a 5 year warranty for your protection.Check out all the angles.
Testimonial : Central Vacuum Conveying
DUROMER PRODUCTS PTY. LTD.
A.B.N. 64 001 125 088
Phone: + 61 2 9743 0355
Facsimile: + 61 2 9743 0273
DUROMER PRODUCTS TESTIMONIAL
Duromer Products Pty Ltd, of Rhodes NSW specialise in the formulation, manufacture and marketing of engineering thermoplastic resins.
Many of these resins can contain up to 50% glass fibre, which makes the plastic pellets highly abrasive. This results in excessive wear on process machinery and ancillary equipment.
Traditionally, manufactures and processors of fibre filed resins have steered clear of central vacuum conveying systems due to high wear on vacuum receivers and long radius bends and most suppliers of conveying systems have no solution.
"To provide optimal service to our customers, downtime must be avoided at all cost says Director, Wayne McDonald. We approached Flemings for a materials handling system that would withstand the highly abrasive nature of our materials and eliminate the continual maintenance and down time we were experiencing."
The solution Fleming Plastic Pty Ltd presented to us was a wear resistant central vacuum conveying system form Labotek and an innovative piping system from Hammertek capable of meeting our full plant capacity without the unacceptable downtime caused by wear.
Labotek used their LT6 central vacuum station which offers very high vacuum with low material velocity ensuring throughput was met while material speed was minimised to reduce pipe wear.
Next the Labotek vacuum receivers were fitted locally by Fleming's with new inlet deflectors that had undergone a metal spraying treatment known as HVOF , which sprays carbon tungsten at high velocity to the surface of a mild steel inlet deflector. "These HVOF inlet deflectors are working extremely well, they show no visible wear after 3 months of full production, while previous stainless steel and ceramic coated versions lasted only 24 hours."
The material piping system comprised of standard 50mm stainless steel tube and Hammertek smart elbows. The Hammertek smart elbows take the impact out of the bend by directing the product to turn the corner by deflection rather than bouncing off the wall of a conventional sweep bend. The result is typically 6 times the life of traditional ceramic sweep bends and greatly reduced product degradation. "We have inspected the Hammertek bends at 3 months and again at 6 months and I still can not identify any visible wear."
The combination of the above design features and the continual support and expertise of the Fleming team has resulted in a cost effective solution to our material conveying needs that we were unable to find elsewhere.
Yours sincerely,
Wayne D. McDonald
Director.
