Case Study

A major Plastics Company uses combinations of Thayer Loss In Weight and Weigh Belt Feeders to produce engineered plastics used in a wide variety of applications from automobiles to sporting goods.

The largest North American supplier of custom thermoplastic polyolefin compounds has has Thayer Cable Scale Loss In Weight Feeders and Weigh Belt Feeders for 20 years. They recently installed a new production line using Thayer Loss In Weight and Weigh Belt Feeders boosting the company’s production by 50%, which is about 30 million more pounds of pellets per year.

Specially designed feeder frames allow rotation from the extruder throat for easy cleaning.

All controls utilize Thayer’s Multi-feeder EZ 3200 instrument with Ethernet communications talking to an Allen Bradley PLC supervisory system.