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Nordsons introduces BKG® HiCut™ Cutter Hub

ordson has introduced its BKG® HiCut™ Cutter Hub This optimizes the flow and reduces swirling, and there
Nfor pelletizing that enables to use Blades longer and is more space between the blades so that pellets do not
improves the pellet quality. Bischof + Klein, a leading accumulate. BKG HiCut designs are compatible with all
European producer of films and laminates, reports that existing pelletizer systems, and the hub accommodates
new-design cutter hubs retrofitted on its pelletizers have both angled and straight blades.
substantially increased blade life and improved pellet
quality. Nordson Corporation will introduce the cutter
hub design at NPE2018 Arburg 730-ton Allrounder makes

N ordson ’ s n e w big American debut
design has increased
number of blades on rburg GmbH & Co. KG is extending its clamping
the hub by a factor Aforce range in the U.S. market to 730 tons with the
of 50%, enabling to hybrid Allrounder 1120 H injection molding machine.
reduce the rotation Its largest-size machine is being introduced in the
speed of the cutter United States for the first time outside Germany at NPE
while maintaining May 7-11. The Lossburg, Germany, injection molding
standard high level machinery maker will have the 730-ton press on display
of throughput. This at Booth W1325 at the NPE The 730-ton Allrounder 1120
decrease in driving H was previously
speed led to a shown in October
reduction in wear to the blades and a substantial increase at Fakuma in
in their lifespan.Bischof-Klein uses BKG® underwater Friedrichshafen,
Germany .
pelletizers from Nordson Corporation within their Friedrich Kanz,
compounding lines to mix colors and additives for its film president and
manufacturing. When the company installed Nordson’s CEO of the company's U.S. subsidiary Arburg Inc. in
new BKG® HiCut™ cutter hubs on two of its pelletizing Rocky Hill, Conn., said the expanded size range of
lines, the blades mounted on the hubs lasted two to three its Allrounder machine is "another critical step to our
times longer than those of the older design, and with some success and growth in the U.S." With the addition of
materials—particularly non-abrasive compounds—blade the 730-ton press, the company's machine clamping
life was extended from a typical three days to nearly three force range has increased by 30 percent, he added.
weeks. In addition, the pellets produced with the blades Clamping forces for hybrid Allrounders, specifically,
exhibited fewer “tails,” which subsequently separate from start at 39 tons. The Allrounder 1120 H can be equipped
the pellet as fines, can abrade or clog equipment, and with Arburg's Gestica control system, which features
represent a waste of polymer. In an underwater pelletizer, easy-to-use operating gestures similar to touch screens
polymer strands emerge from the die plate, solidify as on a smartphone or tablet. For example, acceleration
or deceleration can be controlled with the swipe of
they enter the water, and are then cut into pellets by the a finger along a bar near the edge of the screen, the
blades mounted on the cutter hub. The new HiCut design company said. At NPE, the press will be molding a
accommodates up to 100% more angled blades per hub folding step stool in a fully automated process. The step
and up to 54% more straight blades. This makes possible stool consists of eight parts made from polypropylene.
an increase in throughput or, alternatively, a reduction The parts are produced each cycle in a single shot on
in pelletizer RPM, which decreases wear to the die plate a family mold. With assistance from a six-axis robotic
and blades. The blades on BKG HiCut cutter hubs have system, the 2.4-pound step stool can be made in a cycle
round edges and smooth surfaces with countersunk screws. time of 60 seconds.

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