Plastic Squeezer Machine
Plastic Squeezer Machine

Plastic Squeezer Machine

Plastic Squeezer machine, including centrifugal dryers and plastic squeezing machines, are key pretreatment equipment in the plastics industry. They mechanically remove surface moisture from granules or recycled fragments after washing, preparing materials for storage, transport, or final drying. For specific materials like films, a plastic film squeezer applies direct pressure. This preliminary moisture reduction is critical, as it greatly enhances the efficiency of the subsequent wet material dryer in an integrated line.
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Product Introduction

 

Plastic Squeezer machine, including centrifugal dryers and plastic squeezing machines, are key pretreatment equipment in the plastics industry. They mechanically remove surface moisture from granules or recycled fragments after washing, preparing materials for storage, transport, or final drying. For specific materials like films, a plastic film squeezer applies direct pressure. This preliminary moisture reduction is critical, as it greatly enhances the efficiency of the subsequent wet material dryer in an integrated line. Together, this combined mechanical and thermal process ensures higher product quality, smoother production flow, and significant energy savings in recycling and manufacturing operations.

 

Parameter

 

Model

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Output(kg/h)

150-200

200-250

200-300

300-500

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Power(kW)

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160

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Weight(kg)

4700

5200

5900

7100

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Dimension(m)

3100*1350*1850

3500*1590*2050

3750*1750*2200

4100*1970*2400

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Feature

 

1. High-efficiency mechanical dehydration: Primarily utilizes centrifugal force and friction extrusion to quickly remove free water from the surface of plastic granules or fragments. It typically removes over 99% of surface water, reducing the material's moisture content to below 0.5%, significantly reducing the energy consumption and time required for subsequent hot air drying.

2. Compact and durable structure: Core components are mostly made of stainless steel, ensuring corrosion resistance. The equipment is typically compact and space-saving, yet robust enough to withstand high-speed rotational vibrations and loads.

3. Highly targeted and versatile:

  • Film-specific type: Often equipped with a special friction or plastic film extrusion dryer structure, effectively handling lightweight, easily tangled film fragments.
  • High-moisture type (screw extrusion): Employs a variable-pitch screw for powerful extrusion dehydration of paste-like or fibrous materials with extremely high moisture content.

4. Energy-saving, environmentally friendly, and automated: As a pretreatment device, its mechanical dehydration energy consumption is far lower than hot air drying, making it a key energy-saving element in the production line. Modern models are mostly equipped with automatic control systems, enabling continuous and stable operation and easy integration into automated production lines.

5. Relatively simple operation and maintenance. The operating principle is intuitive, and the main maintenance points are regular cleaning of the screen, checking bearing lubrication and the condition of vulnerable parts. Daily operation is convenient.

 

Advantages

 

1. Energy Saving and Cost Reduction, Significant Economic Benefits.

Significantly Reduced Drying Energy Consumption: By mechanically removing the vast majority (usually over 99%) of surface water, energy consumption in subsequent hot air or dehumidifying dryers can be reduced by 50%-70%, directly saving electricity or fuel costs.

Improved Drying Efficiency: Reduces the load on subsequent drying processes, significantly shortens drying time, and increases overall production line throughput.

2. Optimized Processes, Enhanced Product Quality.

Prevents Hydrolytic Degradation: Effectively removes surface water, preventing hydrolysis of plastics during high-temperature extrusion or injection molding, thus avoiding defects such as bubbles, silver streaks, and reduced strength in products.

Ensures Processing Stability: Uniformly dried materials have better flowability, ensuring stable subsequent processing parameters, improving product consistency and yield.

3. Enhanced Pre-treatment, Guaranteed Continuous Production.

Highly Efficient Dehydration, Strong Adaptability: Whether it's hard granules, film fragments, or high-moisture materials, there are targeted models (such as centrifugal and screw extrusion types) for efficient processing, removing obstacles to continuous production.

Protect downstream equipment: Prevents wet material from clumping and clogging silos, conveying pipelines, or feeding systems, reducing production interruptions and equipment maintenance.

4. High return on investment and easy maintenance.

Robust and durable structure: Core components are made of wear-resistant and corrosion-resistant materials such as stainless steel, ensuring a long service life.

Low operating and maintenance costs: Reliable mechanical principles; main maintenance tasks are periodic cleaning and lubrication; simple operation and low overall cost of ownership.

5. Promotes resource recycling, environmentally friendly and efficient

Improves the quality of recycled materials: A key pretreatment step in the production of high-quality recycled plastic particles, contributing to the high-value recycling of plastics.

 

Product Application Scenarios

 

1. Plastic Recycling Industry (Core Application)

This is the primary application area, used for dehydration of cleaned materials.

PET Bottle Flake Recycling: Cleaned and crushed PET bottle flakes (thin sheets) have a high moisture content and must be pre-dehydrated through efficient extrusion (often using a screw extrusion method) before proceeding to the subsequent crystallization and drying process.

Film Recycling (PE/PP): For lightweight, easily tangled film fragments such as agricultural films and packaging films, a dedicated film extrusion dryer with special friction or extrusion devices is required to effectively break the surface water film.

2. Plastic Granulation Production Line

Directly integrated with underwater pelletizing or water ring pelletizing systems for the production of virgin or modified materials.

Underwater Pelletizing Line: The granules are mixed with hot water and then separated by an extrusion dryer, resulting in surface-dried hot pellets, significantly reducing the load on the subsequent drying tower.

Water Ring Pelletizing Line: The principle is similar; the extrusion dryer separates the pellets from the cooling water and is a standard configuration of the water ring pelletizing system.

3. Plastic Modification and Filler Masterbatch Production

In the production of certain modified plastics requiring water-cooled pelletizing (such as some engineering plastics and high-filler masterbatches), the water-laden material from the pelletizer needs to be dehydrated by a squeeze dryer before subsequent vibration drying or oven drying.

4. Other Related Fields

Plastic Washing Line Terminal: Whether recycling bottle flakes, films, or shredded waste household appliances, after multiple washing stages, the squeeze dryer is usually the final water treatment process, determining the moisture content of the material entering the drying chamber.

Food Waste Resource Recovery (Plastic Sorting): Mixed plastics sorted from organic waste also need to be squeezed dry after washing for subsequent processing or transportation.

 

Packaging and Transportation

 

We offer two main options: unpacked and crated.

Unpacked Option: Heavy equipment is secured with a steel frame base, covered with multiple layers of waterproof material and corner protectors, providing economical and robust protection.

Crated Option: We offer fully sealed wooden crates with excellent impact and moisture resistance, making them the preferred upgrade option for transporting precision components or meeting high standards.

 

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Client Profile

 

Our machines are sold worldwide, covering more than twenty key markets in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and South America, including South Africa, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey.

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After-sales Service

 

1. Pre-sales Technical Consultation and Solution Design.
  • Scenario Matching: Based on your specific materials (e.g., PET flakes, films, rigid materials) and production capacity requirements, we provide the most suitable machine model (centrifugal, screw extrusion) selection advice.
  • Non-standard Customization: For special needs (e.g., highly corrosive materials, space constraints, etc.), we provide customized solutions for screens, materials, or structures.
2. Installation, Commissioning, and Training.
  • Professional Installation: Engineers provide on-site guidance or are responsible for installation, ensuring the equipment is correctly positioned and securely connected in the production line.
  • Start-up Commissioning: On-site no-load and load commissioning to optimize equipment parameters (e.g., speed, feed rate) to ensure the promised dewatering effect and production capacity are achieved.
  • Operation Training: Systematic training for equipment operators and maintenance personnel, including safety procedures, daily operation, basic troubleshooting, and maintenance points.
3. Warranty and Repair Service.
  • Clear Warranty Period: Typically provides a 1-2 year quality warranty for core components (e.g., motor, spindle, frame), with a clearly defined warranty scope.
  • Rapid Response Mechanism: Provides clear fault reporting channels (e.g., 24/7 service hotline) and guarantees response time (e.g., response within 2 hours, engineer on-site arrival within 24-72 hours, depending on distance).
  • Professional Repair and Replacement: Dispatches professional engineers for fault diagnosis and repair, using genuine parts for replacement to ensure equipment returns to factory performance.
  • Remote Technical Support: Provides immediate remote support for issues that can be resolved via video or telephone guidance, minimizing downtime.
4. Spare Parts Supply and Lifecycle Support.
  • Genuine Spare Parts Warehouse: Maintains a long-term supply of wear parts (e.g., screens, friction plates, seals) and core components (bearings, spindles), ensuring complete specification matching and reliable quality.
  • Inventory and Logistics: Offers fast delivery services for commonly used wear parts, reducing customer waiting time.
  • Equipment Upgrades and Retrofits: Provides equipment performance upgrades or retrofits to extend equipment lifecycles as production processes change.
5. Preventative Maintenance and Regular Inspections.
  • Maintenance Plan: Provides a detailed list of regular maintenance recommendations (e.g., lubricant change intervals, vibration checks, screen cleaning and replacement).
  • Inspection service: An annual maintenance contract can be signed, and engineers will regularly visit the site to conduct equipment health checks, identify and address potential problems in advance, and prevent unexpected downtime.

 

Company Introduction

 

Yantai Xushi Machinery Co., Ltd. is a private enterprise integrating R&D, manufacturing, and sales. It mainly produces recycling equipment such as plastic granulation lines, crushing and cleaning machines, and hydraulic balers, with an annual output of over 200 sets. The company values contracts and reputation, and sincerely invites cooperation for mutual development.

 

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Product Certification

 

product-1600-618

 

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