Aquapurge

Aquapurge 020 88137 990 Unit 7/Crauford Business Park, Silverdale Road
Hayes Middlesex
UB3 3BN 5

A purging solution from Aquapurge has helped a major pipe manufacturer to cut downtime at its plant. Wavin UK has used Scrubber Freeze to improve the production of its injection moulded PVC pipe fittings. At the same time, it has freed up maintenance personnel. The company has found that, since the enforced move from lead stabilisers to calcium/zinc, downtime in the plant has increased. “The problem is that the processing window for calcium-zinc is far narrower than it is with lead,” says Mark Wilson, maintenance manager at Wavin UK’s plant in Chippenham, in Wiltshire. This led to more materials burn-ups, meaning that more time was needed to clean the screw and barrel. This job occupied two maintenance engineers for between eight and 12 hours, depending on the size of the machine. Wavin had tried a number of purging compounds in the past, but Wilson says that Scrubber Freeze was the first that actually worked.

Aquapurge 020 88137 990 Unit 7/Crauford Business Park, Silverdale Road
Hayes Middlesex
UB3 3BN 5

The trade moulder Rutland Plastics Limited has significantly reduced the time required to switch between separate moulding jobs, as well as for general machine maintenance, through the adoption of Aquapurge’s Barrel Blitz Universal purging compound. As a consequence, Rutland has not only been able to streamline its production, but also reduce the costs associated with production downtime, machinery maintenance and cleaning. Rutland is coming to the end of an 18 month trial of Barrel Blitz Universal and will continue to use it for the foreseeable future based on the positive results achieved to date. Aquapurge’s new Barrel Blitz Universal (BBU) purging agent increases the productivity of plastic processing equipment by enabling rapid material and colour changes and the effective removal of carbon.