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Newtec delivers four carrot Milliken introduces DeltaMax

optical sorting machines to one modifier
of Australia’s largest packhouses
illiken unveiled the company's reactive extrusion
Mplatform DeltaMax modifier designed to expand
ewtec's Celox C-UHD carrot sorting machine sorts use of the additive into all market segments, including
Ncarrots by their size, shape and surface quality. Its food packaging and recycled plastics. The existing
integrated next-generation visual inspection technology technology allows injection molders to make stronger
developed by Newtec-owned QTechnology inspects parts using more efficient manufacturing parameters
each product from three angles.The cameras’ built-in
computer technology accurately processes the collected and source a broader range of raw materials. The
data, allowing the machine to evaluate each and every
carrot according to the grading parameters selected
by the operator. “We take all the photos from three
different angles, and in doing so we secure that we
have a full surface coverage of every single carrot,”
Heinicke explains. With two cameras angled above each
lane and one beneath, the Celox-C-UHD leaves no room
for error. The Celox-C-UHD is the ideal sorting machine
for carrot producers looking to automate pre-grading in
a way that fully optimises their yield. With the Celox,
consistent quality output and high product throughput
are guaranteed. Weighing, sorting and packing equipment new additive, called DeltaMax 5000a, is expected
by Newtec has provided thousands of fruit and vegetable to drive polypropylene (PP) innovation at the resin
producers around the world with tailor-made solutions to producer level, according to Emily Blair, Milliken's
transform their food into marketable and profitable end global product line manager. "DeltaMax 5000a will
products. One of Newtec’s latest installations took place allow resin producers to expand the performances of
in Australia this June when, together with its Australian
dealer Proud Solutions, the company delivered four their resin portfolios and to boost their productivity
Celox-C-UHD optical carrot sorting machines to the site by increasing the throughput of their reactors,"
Blair said, adding that molding products from
polypropylene are always seeking the "trifecta" of
properties, meaning high melt flow and excellent
impact resistance while maintaining good stiffness.
With DeltaMax Performance Modifiers—which can raise
melt flow while optimizing impact properties—such
trade-offs are largely a thing of the past, Blair said.
By maximizing the impact strength and melt flow of
resins without compromising stiffness performance,
processors using the DeltaMax-modified resins are
now able to use PP in a wider range of applications
in more cost-effective ways. Running high-melt-flow
of Rocky Lamattina & Sons.Rocky Lamattina & Sons has resins allows converters to be more productive, and
become a leading Australian carrot producer through a make more complex parts, all while also improving
combination of hard work, experience and the highest
quality technology. Within the highly demanding Australian their carbon footprint by reducing scrap and using
carrot industry, the family business prides itself on being less energy in the molding process. In addition, the
the nation’s most consistent carrot grower. DeltaMax technology is effective in modifying post-
consumer and post-industrial recycled resins.

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