Sterling Systems and Controls - Over 50 years of experience in providing automation, batching, process and systems solutions for end users and OEMs.
Helping rubber compounding become more profitable with automatic and semi-automatic minor ingredient batching systems, bulk batching and mixer control and monitoring. Sterling Systems & Controls, Inc. custom engineers batching systems for minor ingredients, bulk material batching control, liquid dosing and mixer monitoring and control. These systems are employed to manufacture many types of rubber products, […]
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Sterling Systems & Controls, Inc. designs material weighing and ingredient batching systems for dusty, difficult to handle powder and bulk solid, sometimes hazardous, materials. Dust containment is essential to protect personnel and equipment. These systems are all custom engineered and can be equipped with dust control and containment options, including a dust collector (typically baghouse […]
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What is the most common way to batch ingredients for rubber? This is typically called rubber compounding. What is compounding in rubber processing? Rubber compounding or formulation refers to the addition of certain chemicals to raw rubber in order to obtain the desired properties. The well-known chemicals are cross linking agents, reinforcements, anti degradants and […]
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Progress Continues! New Photo Sterling Systems & Controls is busting at the seams as we grow. To better serve our customers we have embarked on a capital project, building expansion working hard to serve customers. This will increase our production capacity with increased height to better equip our capacity for very high stack-ups of mechanical […]
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Automatic minor batching system for rubber is one of the most important aspects of rubber compounding. Accuracy of weighing materials and batching controls for profitable products. Accurate weighing and batching. Flexible, high quality. Custom engineered to your specific objectives is necessary. Read more here.
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Ingredient batching for rubber compounding requires process knowledge and an expert level understanding of material weighing and batching system control/automation. Ingredient batching for rubber requires a custom engineered and manufactured automatic batching system for high productivity and value. A hybrid ingredient bulk material batching system combines minor bin and bulk bag ingredient batching providing automatic […]
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OVERVIEW: A Global manufacturer and leader in hydraulic hose manufacturing and supply contracted with Sterling Systems & Controls to create a custom engineered batching and mixing controls for the rubber industry to improve the rubber compounding batch integrity and increase overall production through automation. THE CHALLENGE: The customer needed to update its existing aged batching […]
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Well that is an excellent question, “what is a rules table”. A Rules Table can also be referred to as a Decision Table. Being unaccustomed with the intricate details of modern controls and automation engineering you might hear and wonder about a “rules table”. So, what is a rules table? A Rules Table, in the […]
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So you are going to purchase a custom engineered ingredient batching system but are concerned about how to arrange for moving batches from point A to point B? Meaning, how to get the batched ingredients from the batching system to the mixer. Well that’s not too difficult, depending on the facility layout. While many batching […]
Read More Sterling Systems & Controls, Inc. is pleased to announce in its line of material weighing and batching systems, the availability of customized ingredient hybrid weighing and batching systems with Micro, Minor and Bulk weighments, processing both dry and liquid ingredients. Each automatic Accu-Portion™ Micro and Bulk Batching System is custom designed and manufactured to meet […]
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