be announced in a series of random drawings.
Customers apply by sending a photo of their team
with a Maguire blender via email or Maguire’s
Twitter and LinkedIn accounts. Each winner
receives $500 and is entertained by a Maguire
representative at an event of their choice.
world headquarters in Aston, PA, U.S.A. for all
international partners as a thank-you for their
support over the years.
The first winner was the Amesbury, Massachusetts
extrusion operation of Amesbury Truth, a leading
North American manufacturer of window and door
components. The company chose to use its $500
award to hold an employee luncheon.
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.
Precision Is One Key to Worldwide Adoption of
the Maguire® Blender
Maguire equipment installed at the Amesbury
plant includes 50 blenders, six MLS™ mini-central
loading systems, and two VBD 1000 vacuum dryers,
noted Amesbury Truth process engineer Dan Cook,
who cited the service provided by Maguire and its
local representative Mark Hamilton of Hamilton
Plastics Equipment, LLC. “We really value the
support we get from Maguire. I can call them up,
and they’ll get right back to me. It’s good to have
people like Mark to count on.”
“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.”
Also as part of the celebrations, Maguire
held a special international seminar at their
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