Production-oriented and energy-efficient grinding
Getecha – hall A3 booth 3210
Equipping plastics processors and recycling companies with customised shredding and recycling solutions – that has been Getecha’s mission for many years. What this means in concrete terms and what level of process automation is achievable today will be demonstrated at this year’s Fakuma. The company will be using numerous exhibits to showcase the services it is currently able to cover as a system integrator and engineering partner.
Getecha is presenting two granulators from its GRS line at the trade show as mobile and versatile size reduction solutions for use in production. The GRS 180, which is designed as a beside-the-press granulator for processing sprues and light faulty parts, is almost a classic. It is suitable for both manual and automated feeding via the handling system of an injection moulding machine. Depending on the variant and options, its feed height can be adjusted from 800 mm to 1,320 mm. In addition, it can be optimally adapted to its environment with low or high frames as well as material containers (instead of free outlet) and hoppers for feeding via sprue picker (instead of manually).
The GRS 180 exhibited uses a seven-blade rotor with wear-protected blades in HSS quality and is configured for connection to the customer’s extraction system. Its drive technology heart is a 2.2 kW motor whose power requirement is effectively reduced to around 1.1 kW under load thanks to the Getecha EnergySave system. The rotor variants, the drive and the blade qualities of the GRS series are always individually matched to the application. The cutting chamber can also be equipped with water cooling, which reduces the thermal load on the materials and prevents their plastification in the cutting chamber. With a fill level monitoring system, overfilling of the material container – and thus a backflow into the cutting chamber – can be avoided. Warning signals and an automatically controlled suction conveyor can be used to stabilise the production process.
In addition to presenting its granulators, Getecha will be addressing important factors and trends in the field of size reduction technology. These include the question of what role a detailed requirements analysis plays or how additional savings potential can be released through the successful integration of the size reduction solution into the customer’s infrastructure. The relevance of the automation of the grinding systems, their external control and the use of modern communication and sensor technology for process optimisation and operating cost reduction will also be discussed.
