Maguire delivers 50000 th gravimetric blender

10-Mar-16

Maguire Products, Inc. is on course to ship the 50,000th Maguire® gravimetric blender in coming months and will inaugurate a year-long celebration of this plastics-industry milestone at Chinaplas 2016. On exhibit at the Maguire booth will a unique copper-plated version of the company’s widely used MicroBlender™, the smallest model in the Maguire blender range. In following months, this celebratory blender will be on display at local events around the world as the company’s agents and their customers mark the milestone sale. “The Maguire blender is the world’s most widely used gravimetric blender, employed in every type of molding, extrusion, and compounding process and in markets ranging from automotive to wire and cable,” said Hubert Nerlich, managing director of Maguire Products Asia Pte Ltd. “When Maguire president and chief designer Steve Maguire developed the first gravimetric batch blender in 1989, he revolutionized the way raw materials are metered into the plastics processing machine.” 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, vice president of sales for Maguire Products, Inc. “The Maguire gravimetric batch blender was the first affordable and easy to operate system for precisely controlling the composition of a raw material blend,” said Mr. Kavanagh. “Throughout the industry it has generated substantial savings in material costs and increases in product quality. 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.” This combination of ease of use and powerful capabilities is reflected in a new logo tagline that Maguire is introducing: “Intelligent Simplicity.” Also new is a “50K” icon that will appear on Maguire communications throughout this celebratory year.