Adescor Inc.of Exeter Ontario have recently launched a new machine to automate the cutting of larger diameter pipe in the 24″ – 60″ size range into manageable pieces. The best use of the machine is to take the pieces directly onto a conveyor belt and feed them into the grinder direct, but the machine is also setup to put the pieces into a gaylord box. For a QUOTE on the corrugated pipe scrap reduction system contact us.
Corrugated pipe scrap reduction machine
As corrugated pipe production has gotten larger and larger in diameter it has become a nuisance in the plant to deal with the scrap that can be produced during start up. In pipe diameters ranging from 24″ – 60″ it becomes more and more expensive to buy a huge grinder to deal with large pipe pieces. Why not chunk it down into smaller rectangles and use a lower horsepower grinder?
The traditional way to handle the corrugated pipe is to bisect into quarters, or sometimes eighths in shorter pieces of 4′ – 5′ in length. Most of this work is done on a sawzall. I’ve been to a few start-ups that we considered quite efficient, but even in these situations the staff can have 30 – 40 feet of pipe to cut up and put in the grinder. When your dealing with 60″ pipe this can be an ominous task, and a few pounds as well. The last thing you want is for the pipe to go in the yard to be cut later, get dirty and contaminate your regrind stream when it eventually does get cut and ground.
As you start to run your plant with shorter production runs – a typical strategy to reduce inventory and increase flexibility to make products the customer wants – then your start-up scrap becomes a more frequent occurrence.
The machine from Adescor isn’t a shredder, or fancy device to reduce the pipe into small granular pieces. Its a good old fashioned simple shear that chunks the pipe into approximately 6″ by 18″ pieces, and does this automatically on pipe lengths of about 5′. A typical length the guys will cut during start up to check the inside of the pipe before they run it through the downstream equipment.
The machine works well, and is already proving very popular with the guys in the plant. For the owners, you get the scrap cut up much quicker, back into regrind and into the extruder with less contamination. For more information on the Adescor corrugated pipe scrap reduction system please get in touch with us at Profilepipe Machinery or send us an inquiry from this site.
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