Heat Exchanger Increases Productivity/Reduces Operating Costs in Cooling Hot Melt Adhesives
Reducing hot melt adhesive products’ time-to-cool period prior to forming has always been a desired productivity goal for adhesives manufacturers. It can often take up to 6 to 18 hours to form and package a standard batch of adhesives depending on the clients finished product form. Every minute of cooling time reduction results in increased productivity as well as process cost reduction. The Kenics® heat exchanger has proven to be highly effective in reducing time-to-cool when handling viscous, hot melt adhesives, providing short-term ROI and long-term contribution to the bottom line.
A hot melt adhesives manufacturer was experiencing excessive forming/packaging time. To reduce the cooling time, this company incorporated scraped surface devices and vertical tanks in an attempt to speed cooling of the hot melt adhesive products. Unfortunately, this approach still did not cool the hot melt adhesive quick enough, and production cost was unacceptable.