Portable Flexible Conveyor Cuts Paint Manufacturer's Mixing Time by 30%
A flexible conveyor and hopper on wheels slashed mixing time by 30% to speed throughput in manufacturing Transtar Autobody Technologies Inc.’s automotive paint and primers. Compared to the previous manual method, the automated conveying arrangement causes five different dry materials to disperse more quickly when added to five high-speed mixers containing solvents and resins. The Brighton, MI, manufacturer of automotive aftermarket paint also gets a dust-free workplace while deploying operators more productively and safely.
Formerly, an operator dumped 50-lb bags of titanium dioxide, calcium carbonate and two types of talc into the 54- to 72-in diameter high-speed disperser tanks. The process was slow. The powders and granules would often clump, taking a long time to migrate to the center blade’s vortex to fully break down into the desired mix.