Orlando, Fla. — Moretto SpA has been updating its blenders and dryers and unveiled them during NPE2024 in Orlando.
The company used new patented adjustments to help customers get the most out of their equipment and have decreased the sizes to give more flexibility in floor space.
The DGM 20 Gravix features a double eyelid shutter device and high precision microdosing Rotopulse technology. This blender is the smallest throughput blender Moretto makes and gives capabilities for gravimetric batch.
"Moretto has designed a great product for that small or tiny market," said Gene Flockerzi, general manager of Moretto. "We can blend up virgin regrind colors very easily for components, and it's going to hit a perfect spot in the marketplace."
The blender has been updated with new electronics and guarantees a high accuracy of precision. It has a capacity of up to 44 pounds per hour.
There is more user-friendliness with the new blenders that allow for easy accessibility and rapid tool-free maintenance.
Moretto manufactures 85 percent of products in-house and are their own supply chain, so producing products for customers during harsh market times goes smoothly for the company.
In another new product introduction Moretto is making is the CRX Comb series of Mobilux dryers. Models can range from 5-50 pounds per hour drying capabilities. Each model will include a honeycomb wheel of 100 percent Zeolite desiccant.
The machine uses technology that Moretto has patented.
"It automatically reduces the airflow, not the temperature," Flockerzi said. "That way you don't change the variable going into the injection molding machine or extruder, but you're saving energy; you're saving a degradation of the material and controlling the process to that specific material."
The dryers are very compact to save on floor space, and the products also use about 40 percent less energy.
The biggest update is the inside of the hopper, the Original Thermal eXchanger (OTX), does not have any restrictions and has more uniformed distance from the side of the walls. A standard hopper has a type of bell housing toward the bottom; the Moretto hoppers are straighter, leading to faster velocities and material coming out quicker.
"Regards to our hopper design with the patterns that are involved with it, we've designed it using a supercomputer," Flockerzi said.
The OTX features a patented external finishing called Spyro, with a stainless-steel cover that will increase the strength and make it shockproof.