Plastic Industries
Plastics are all around us. Think about it. What would our world look like if plastic had not been invented in 1855? This first plastic material was called Parkesine and later was generically known as celluloid as it was derived from cellulose. Most plastics in use today have roots from the development of chemicals in the early-mid 1900’s, especially polymers.
The manufacture of most all raw plastic materials today, in pellet or resin form, is a chemical process. The primary plastic production industry is classified in the Process industry section. The Plastic industry that we discuss here is the secondary process or conversion process that takes the produced plastic pellet or resin and turns, or converts, it into some product form. This includes PVC pipe, Vinyl siding, plastic cups and food serving items, packaging materials and a host of items that is too long to list. Look around you, without plastic our world would be vastly different.
The process of converting raw plastic material into usable products and parts can be one of a number of methods, including injection molding, extrusion and blow molding. Whatever the process, the use of level measurement and automatic level control, or bin level indicators, is critical in order to ensure productive and profitable operations.
Common uses of level measurement and monitoring instruments within the plastics industry are in the material storage and manufacturing process. These uses include high and low level monitoring in raw material silos, bins and machine hoppers. BlueLevel Technologies Model RH Rotary Paddle Bin Level Indicators reliably indicate material presence and absence with both control output and high intensity LED’s. In addition, the control output is “fail-safe” so the alarm condition is indicated in the output in the event of a power failure.
Rotary paddle technology is the most universal of all the bulk solids bin level devices and are easy to understand, install and maintain. Rotary paddle devices can be used to detect the presence/absence of materials with a wide variety of bulk densities and particle sizes. They are low in cost, rugged and reliable for both high and low level applications.
For small hopper applications or where tight spaces require a compact level sensor, the Model CPH Capacitive Proximity Switch provides reliable operation in a compact sensor.
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In addition to material presence and absence detection for protection against bin overfilling and material outage, bin level indicators are commonly used in Plastic processing industries to measure and track inventory levels of raw material within storage silos and bins. For a free White Paper discussing “Application Considerations for Continuous Level and Inventory Monitoring”, please click here.
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