Matsui pelletizer allows reuse of pricey resins

Raptor 22 Matsui’s new Raptor 22 pelletizing system allows for a range of expensive engineered resins to be reused — an application that addresses a need, as highly engineered resins have been difficult to reuse effectively in molding applications. 

What’s new? The Raptor 22. It combines a range of features, including a proprietary screw design that prevents carbonization and eliminates material shear heat, a high-speed carbide rotating blade that produces rounded, tear-shaped pellets, and a vacuum-based conveying system that cools material as it is transported to a cyclone receiver. 

Benefits The production of clean, uniform pellets with very little deterioration of physical properties. The Raptor 22 makes it possible to process and reuse highly engineered recycled materials like liquid-crystal polymers, cyclic olefins, cyclo olefins, PC, PA46 and polyetheretherketone, among others. When integrated with Matsui’s recently introduced molding defect elimination products, these recycled materials can be used even for optical or cosmetically critical molding applications. For example, Matsui’s static eliminator removes material in powder form, eliminating the risk of black and white spots, burning and uneven blending and weighing. The Raptor 22 also is energy efficient. 

Matsui America Inc., Hanover Park, Ill., 847-290-9680, www.matsuiamerica.com