MTI Mischtechnik at NPE 2018
Biggest-ever MTI mixer supplied to the U.S. is exhibited at
trade fair booth
At the NPE 2018 trade show staged in
Orlando, Florida from May 7 -11, 2018, MTI
Mischtechnik, a technology and quality leader
in the manufacture of mixing and processing
machines, will present its current portfolio of
container-type, vertical, horizontal, cooling,
and heating/cooling mixers for the plastics
industry.
One highlight at the company’s booth – #W4545 in
the West Hall, Level 2 – is a Heating/Cooling Mixer
Combination MTI Flex®-line type M 2000 / K 8000
that impresses with its outstanding dimensions,
providing 8,000 liters of cooling vessel capacity while
measuring over 7 m (23 ft) in length and close to
5 m (16.5 ft) in height. Directly after the show, the
machine is to be shipped to Northern Pipe Products
Inc., a major manufacturer of PVC pipe serving the
Midwestern USA and Canada. With the installation
of this system – the largest
heating/cooling mixer
combination MTI has ever
supplied to the USA – mixing
capacity will almost double at
this customer’s site.
Burkhard Wulf, Area Sales Manager at MTI,
comments: „We have been witnessing a trend
towards ever-increasing production volumes in the
U.S. market for quite some time. With this Flex®-
line M 2000 / K 8000 for Northern Pipe Products we
address the associated demand; needless to say, the
same holds true for our Flex®-line M 2500 / K 8000
model which provides the ultimate in mixer capacity.
These systems can deliver the specified mixtures in
appropriate quantities without compromising on
mixing quality or high-precision recipe compliance.
We are looking forward to delivering this large-size
machine to Northern Pipe soon – a company which,
like our own, has been a hallmark of precision,
accuracy and high-grade products for decades.“
„In our production we have relied on an MTI heating/
cooling mixer combination with 1,500 liters of
heating mixer and 4,250 liters of cooling mixer
capacity for almost 30 years now”, explains Derek
Hanson, Vice President of Engineering at Northern
Pipe. “In 2014, acting in close cooperation with MTI,
we replaced the original cooler with a revised model
of the same type. Unfortunately, it was not possible
to install a larger system at the time as we had
utilized the available floor space optimally already.
The entire machine has been performing with
high reliability since its installation, and when
we needed spare parts they were promptly
made available to us, along with the associated
customer service. Still, the day came where
this system’s output could no longer keep up
with our demand. Once we resolved to install a
significantly larger unit, it was only logical that
we should go back to MTI for its implementation.
Together, we managed a solution despite all
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