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News Release from: Chemineer | Subject: Polflor vinyl mixing
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 19 December 2007
Chemineer mixers improve plastisol
production
KMX static mixers from Chemineer are helping enhance the manufacturing process and quality of finished product for one of the leading international suppliers of flooring
Polyflor, who produce a wide range of high quality flooring products, including safety flooring, homogeneous vinyl floors, sports flooring and acoustic flooring, required complete mixing in the shortest possible length of pipe over a wide range of flow rates with minimal pressure drops To meet these requirements, Chemineer first introduced one of its high performance KMX static mixers into the Polyflor production process, which involves mixing a minor pigment bearing stream with a viscous plastisol (liquid vinyl) stream of viscosity up to 40,000 centipoise
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 14 Feb 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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Following successful trials that produced complete mixing with no streaking, minimal losses in product between colour changes and modest pipeline pressure drops, a further three KMX mixers were purchased from Chemineer.
Too long a mixer would result in costly product losses when changing colour and too high a pressure drop would require more powerful and costly pumps.
Furthermore, incomplete mixing would lead to colour streaking in the finished flooring product, which would have been totally unacceptable.
Designed for demanding applications such as those involving fluids with extreme viscosity ratios or volume ratios, the Chemineer Kenics KMX static mixer is suitable for laminar flow and high-low viscosity mixing applications.
In addition to an extensive range of static mixers such as the KMX, Chemineer also designs and manufactures off-the-shelf as well as customised mixing and blending solutions for the chemical, water and wastewater treatment, plastics and resins, petrochemical, pulp and paper and pharmaceutical industries.
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