During Covid-19, magnetic separation, metal detection, and conveying products are essential because they support the plastics processing industry and protect plastic from metal contamination.
Plastics are used in countless products that are essential during the current healthcare crisis caused by Covid-19. While a variety of standard plastics are necessary during this time, such as plastic packaging for single-use items, medical grade plastic is also in high demand. Medical grade plastic is versatile, easy to sterilise, shatter-proof, non-permeable, and cost-effective.
In response to the Covid-19 crisis, many plastics manufacturers are switching from their regular production schedules to focus on producing critical goods, such as Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and ventilators. With any plastics production line, metal contamination poses a great risk as it compromises the integrity of the product, can cause damage to other equipment in the facility, and potentially cause harm to consumers. Bunting’s magnetic separation and metal detection equipment protects plastics from metal contamination.
Bunting’s magnetic separation equipment uses powerful rare-earth magnets to pull ferrous metal contamination from the product stream, trapping them against the magnet’s surface so as to prevent any wipe-off. Many plastics applications, such as injection moulding, require that plastic resin be dried at a very high temperature, just before it enters an injection moulding machine. Since standard rare earth magnets can temporarily or permanently lose their magnetism when exposed to high temperatures, Bunting offers specialty products such as FF350 High Temp Drawer Magnet, to deliver high performance even at high temperatures. For the detection, capture, and removal of non-ferrous metal contamination, Bunting offers a broad range of metal detection products for the plastics industry.
When facilities combine magnetic separation equipment with metal detectors into a complete cleaning system, manufacturers can be confident their product will be protected from metal contamination. Bunting equipment protects a plastic processor’s equipment from the damage that metal contaminants can cause, and as a result reduces downtime caused by repairs. This allows plastics companies to stay on schedule producing critical plastics products required to fight Covid-19 and ensures that the products they manufacture will be of the highest quality.