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| Smart Flipper |
Sumitomo Heavy Industries Modern, Ltd has recently taken part in ArabPlast 2019, the largest regional trade exhibition for polymers, petrochemicals and related industries. The event that was held January 5-8, 2019 at Dubai World Trade Centre (UAE) attracted about 1000 exhibitors and 29000 trade visitors from 125 countries.
At its booth Sumitomo demonstrated several technological novelties, including:
- High speed Extrusion and Co-extrusion Lamination Line
- Smart Chamber – Enclosed Chamber for High Speed AC Primer Coating
- Smart Flipper - Pneumatic Type T-die Controlled Automatically
The Smart Flipper is an automatic film thickness management system based on a T-die, featuring a lip forming device with a pneumatic actuator to equip extrusion coating and cast lines. It allows greater dimensional accuracy and stability as well as better productivity.
The pneumatic-driven device provides a quick reaction (with response time 1-2 sec. instead of conventional 2 min.) to correction commands thus making it possible to maintain film thickness in the target rage on the basis of preset parameters.
Employing air pressure as a drive source instead of commonly used heat bolts protects the film from heat radiation effects thus providing superb accuracy and stability as well as allowing for better energy efficiency.
