Material Clean-Out Procedure for the X2 Continuous Blender [Video]
Today’s entry features a quick video demonstrating the easy and straight-forward process of cleaning the material out of the hoppers and downcomer of an X2 Series Continuous Blender. The blender has been designed for easy clean-out and quick change over.
Video of Continuous Blender feeding Powder Material
Today’s post features a video of powder and pellet materials being fed into PCC’s X2 Gravimetric Continuous Blender. All ingredients are simultaneously metered in the correct blend ratios from individual weighed material hoppers. The ingredients flow through a cascade chamber into an integral downcomer. The downcomer preserves the blended material all the way to the … Continue reading
Product Spotlight: Gravimetric Continuous Blenders
Today’s product spotlight will focus on our line of gravimetric continuous blenders. The X and XU Series 2 Gravimetric Blenders offer unsurpassed blend accuracy and blend homogeneity in a wide range of configurations to meet the needs of any application. For extruder throat-mounted applications, the X2 comes equipped with an integral downcomer to preserve the … Continue reading
AgruAmerica Upgrades to Continuous Blender with Existing PCC Gravitrol System
Gunther Niedermoser, Plant Manager at AgruAmerica was looking at an economical way to upgrade his 90 mm pipe extrusion line, utilizing existing equipment on the line and blending equipment received from Process Control GmbH. The 90mm line was already equipped with a Gravitrol® (gravimetric extrusion control) system from PCC, which was designed to control the … Continue reading
New Small Frame, 6-Element X Series 2 Continuous Blender
X2D6, small frame, 6-element complements the X2D4 four element frame, and completes the X2 Series along with the X2L4 and X2L6. Features: Color touch screen operator interface with new “off-the-shelf” control Blender monitors weight loss of each ingredient hopper for precise control of blend ratios Weighing system resolution is 1:1,000,000 for maximum accuracy Storage for … Continue reading
Video of Continuous Blender Cascade Mixing
Today’s post features the cascade mixing process in our X Series 2 Continuous Gravimetric Blender. All ingredients are simultaneously metered in the correct blend ratios by inclined augers (seen dispensing black and clear pellets) from individual weighed material hoppers. The ingredients flow through a cascade chamber into an integral downcomer. The downcomer preserves the blended … Continue reading
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