Cooling conveyor boosts powder coatings productivity
This company has launched a new range of cooling conveyors for powder-coating applications. This addition is key to the availability of turnkey, fully automated powder-coating process lines from one trusted source. The new stainless-steel belt cooling conveyors (photo) are designed to match the outputs of the company’s MPX and HPX series of industrial twin-screw extruders, which can produce up to 2,900 kg/h, across the full range of powder coating and toner formulations. Designed to cool extruded material efficiently and produce flakes that are ideally sized for feeding into the milling stage of the process, the new cooling conveyor integrates seamlessly into the powder coatings production line and helps to maximize end-product quality. All cooling conveyors feature a built-in flaking unit with its own air-vortex cleaning system for dust extraction, which further cuts labor and turnround time while ensuring a high-quality product with minimal contamination risk. — Baker Perkins, Ltd., Peterborough, U.K.