New strand pelletizer is easier to deploy and operate

31 August 2006

Reduction Engineering Inc. has developed a new design of strand pelletizer, which the company claims makes setting up strand input simpler and faster than with conventional equipment and enables compounders to use virtually any type of downstream equipment to take away or package pellets. The new Reduction™ 800 Series pelletizer is the first in a series of newly-designed equipment introduced by Reduction Engineering since it purchased the pelletizer product line of Conair earlier this year, after several years of assembling, servicing, and marketing pelletizers for Conair. 

The company claims that the new pelletizer can be deployed with any type of downstream equipment because a large clear space has been created beneath the pelletizer where downstream equipment can be located. Instead of placing the motor underneath, the motor and pelletizer are on a 1.52m (five-foot) high table. The company adds that in order to accommodate different types of downstream equipment, conventional pelletizers either had a large discharge chute sticking out of the machine or had to be custom designed. Now they can be used without any modification to the machines.

A second new design feature simplifies the feeding of strands into the pelletizer. Reduction Engineering explains that it has created a large rectangular funnel outside the entry port, which creates an easy target for the strands. Reduction Engineering says that the pelletizer is also constructed for reliability and low maintenance.