04-Oct-16 A year-long celebration in anticipation of the shipment of the 50,000th Maguire® weigh scale blender will arrive at K 2016, with an additional ten appearances at events globally planned before the year is out. The celebration has included a global tour of a special customized 50K blender from Mexico, Taiwan, and China to Europe, the Middle East, and the United States, thus far reaching 30 customer sites in 16 countries on five continents. In addition, Maguire has been running a digital campaign on Twitter and LinkedIn to thank customers by offering them a chance to win one of five US$500 prizes.
At K 2016, Maguire will have a series of celebrations on their stand as well as a special plinth and photo booth area to encourage people to join in on the celebrations. “All of us at Maguire look forward to welcoming visitors to our stand and are excited to celebrate with everyone who has been a part of the 50K world tour journey,” said Frank Kavanagh, vice president of sales. “The 50K unit is an ambassador celebrating what has been achieved in raw materials over the years.”
The 50,000th sale is a landmark for the industry as well as for Maguire, according to Mr. Kavanagh. “When Maguire’s president Steve Maguire developed the gravimetric batch blender in 1989, it was the first affordable and easy to operate system for precisely controlling the composition of a raw material blend. Today the Maguire blender is the world’s most widely used gravimetric blender and has been installed in every type of plastics manufacturing operation, from compounding to extrusion to molding.”
In the 50K world tour, Maguire partners have taken the special 50K version of the company’s widely used MicroBlender™, the smallest model in the Maguire blender range, to celebratory events with customers
A gravimetric batch blender sequentially dispenses each batch ingredient in its target proportion into a weigh chamber; then, by monitoring each gain in weight of a batch, the blender control makes adjustments to subsequent batches to maintain accuracy and control raw material consumption. The Maguire system holds batch accuracy to within +/- 0.1%, according to Frank Kavanagh. “The precision of the Maguire blender has generated substantial savings in material costs and increases in product quality throughout the industry,” said Mr. Kavanagh. “In combination with control systems and software developed by Maguire, the blender has also made advanced capabilities readily accessible to a wide range of processors, including lot-to-lot accountability and documentation, extrusion yield control, and factory automation.”
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