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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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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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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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The first step in most rubber manufacturing processes is compounding. Do you compound rubber? What is compounding? Rubber compounding involves the science and engineering of rubbers and rubber additives, such as processing aids, fillers, and curing agents, in definite proportions to obtain a uniform mixture that will have desirable physical and chemical properties to meet […]
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Mixer control for rubber compounding is critical to quality and production efficiency. Most often to produce a rubber compound a combination of plastic resin (pellets, flakes, powders, or liquid) is combined with other materials, including liquids and bulk solid materials. Sterling Systems & Controls, Inc. has introduced a customized system for a rubber compounding application. […]
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Sterling, IL – Immediate Release: Sterling Systems & Controls, Inc. is pleased to announce it has custom engineered and manufactured an automatic batching system for the ingredient batching of the rubber compounding process. A hybrid ingredient bulk material batching system combines minor bin and bulk bag ingredient batching providing automatic batching for a rubber manufacturing […]
Read More Sterling, IL April 2017: Sterling Systems & Controls, Inc. is pleased to announce it has developed and implemented the capability to automate the ingredient batching of the rubber compounding process. Using a hybrid ingredient bulk material batching system that combines minor bin and bulk bag ingredient batching, Sterling Systems has been automating rubber compounding and […]
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OVERVIEW: The manufacture of various products of rubber requires compounding or batching/blending multiple powder ingredients, and a minor ingredient batching system for the rubber industry was needed. When a manufacturer of hoses that use rubber in their products had problems with their manual batching and weighing of the powder ingredients they came to Sterling Systems […]
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