Markets Served

Plastics Processing

Serving the Plastics Processing Industries for more than 50 years, Acrison develops, designs and manufactures a comprehensive range of dry solids metering and handling equipment that delivers maximum flexibility, optimum levels of performance and the lowest cost-of–ownership possible.

Meeting the needs of virtually every segment of the Plastics Processing Industry, Acrison offers dry solids metering and handling systems for a wide variety of applications including the production of Engineered Plastics which are used in the Automotive, Electronics, Medical and Packaging end markets. In addition to these market sectors, Acrison supplies its high performance equipment for a variety of Plastics Processing applications including Film and Sheet manufacturing, Pipe, Profile and Tubing Extrusion, Blow Molding, Thermoforming and Injection Molding.

Acrison serves the Plastics Processing Markets with the most comprehensive line of volumetric and gravimetric feeders in the industry. These feeders are well known for their ability to accurately and reliably meter an unparalleled variety of dry solid ingredients. Their innovative and technologically superior designs provide a high degree of versatile metering performance enabling Acrison to match without compromise, the proper equipment to the endless list of materials that processors must handle.

Further serving the Plastics Processing Industries, Acrison also manufactures Dry Solids Storage and Supply Systems, Continuous Blenders/Conveyors, Bulk Bag Unloaders, Dust Collectors, leading-edge Controllers, and Supervisory Feeder Control Systems.

Case Histories for the Plastics Market

Loss-In-Weight Gravimetric Feeders Help Boost Company's Production Capacity

A custom compounder selects reliable and accurate loss-in-weight gravimetric feeders for a new extrusion system.

Feeders Provide Highly Accurate, Repeatable Feed Rates

A toll compounder chooses durable and reliable loss-in-weight feeders for a new production line.

Feeders Exceed Company's Requirements

Volumetric and loss-in-weight feeders accurately feed a custom compounder's ingredients to its extrusion lines.

New Plant Incorporates Tried-and-True Feeders

When upgrading to a new plant, a plastics compounder chooses scale-based loss-in-weight feeders like those that contributed to the company's top-quality products for more than 20 years.

Feeders Satisfy Plant's Hunger for Expansion

Speed and quality were important factors ina project that almost doubled GE Plastics' annual production rate.

New Feeders Boost EPS Production, Efficiency at Bandex

The new feeders replace disc-type units that never worked properly.

Acrison Feeders Tackle Tough Compounding Challenge

Acrison International has recently commissioned a new BDF weigh feeder at Jackdaw, the leading nylon compounder in the UK, bringing the total of Acrison feeders within this harsh environment to 16.

Jackdaw Polymers Choose the GP403-101 for New Technical Centre

Jackdaw Polymers, leading supplier of nylon-based compounds to the technical moulding industry, has installed 3 Acrison feeders in its prestigious new pilot plant facility.

New Production Line at Spartech Polycom to Use Acrison Feeders

Compounding giant Spartech Polycom has selected Acrison International as feeder supplier for its new plastic pellet production line at its Donchery site in France.

DuPont Changes Gear to Enhance Delrin® Production

DuPont de Nemours in Dordrecht, Holland has picked Acrison International for the supply of a number of loss-in-weight feeders on its Delrin® production lines. The investment in new equipment comes as part of DuPont's global commitment to maximizing production performance due to increased consumer demand.