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Hills, Bicomponent Staple Fiber Extrusion Line, 2000, 12 Position, 2500 lbs/hr Capacity

Description

  1. Overview
    1. Inventory number: E-5117-C
    2. Bicomponent staple fiber extrusion system
    3. Twelve position bicomponent extrusion line, installed at 2000-2001
    4. Machine equipped for cut staple fibers from 1.5 to 60 dpf
    5. Estimated 2500 pounds per hour capacity
    6. Major components by Hill’s, Inc.
    7. Two step configuration
    8. Homocomponent and bicomponent fibers
    9. Polymers: PET, co-PET, PBT and PA
  2. Polymer Handling And Drying
    1. Complete polymer conveying system
    2. Crystallization and drying of main polymer and copolymers: two complete systems of fluid bed crystallizer, column dryer supplied by Barr-Rosin
    3. One Novatec dual desiccant bed dryer with s dryer hoppers and gas fired heating system
    4. Volumetric additive polymer systems (2)
  3. Extrusion And Filtration
    1. Extruders (4): two for main polymer (6. dia.), two for additive polymers (3 1/2. dia.)
    2. Polymer prefilters (2): continuous area extended cartridge filter elements (Memtec)
    3. Transfer lines, manifolds (4)
  4. Spin Beam And Quench System
    1. Spin beams (2): 6 positions each
    2. Metering pumps and pump drives
    3. Maintenance platform, supports spin beams, pump drives, quench cabinets and upper metered finish applicators; modular system
    4. Spin packs and spinnerets, Hill’s design
    5. Quench cabinets (12): cross flow quench cabinets
    6. Two Trane chilling systems included, one for each 6 position quench cabinet
    7. Fume exhaust
    8. Finish application, upper system
    9. Inter-floor tubes (12)
    10. Spinning wall, twelve positions
  5. Tow Handling And Canning
    1. Tow pull roll and tow canning equipment, Fleissner mfg.
    2. 110 square tow bins, 70 x 70 x 100. dimensions
    3. One 180 position creel with 180 round tow cans to be included if required
  6. Controls And Maintenance
    1. Controls: Hill’s supervisory control system
    2. Pack preheater, tools for maintenance of packs and spinnerets
  7. Cross Sections And Polymers
    1. System includes packs and spinnerets to produce the following cross sections: sheath/core concentric round filaments, sheath/core eccentric round filaments, side by side round filaments, 16 segment pies round filaments, sheath/core concentric trilobal filaments, side by side trilobal filaments, tipped trilobal filaments
    2. Homopolymers producible by using same polymer in both extruders
  8. Spin Pack And Spinneret Inventory
    1. Spin packs (30): twelve operating and 18 spares
    2. Spinnerets (30) with 2622 round holes – blocking plates included to reduce hole count to 1311, maximum spin denier is 2.5 to 10.0
    3. Spinnerets (30) with 1000 large round orifices – blocking plates included to reduce hole count to 500, maximum spun denier is 15.0 to 60.0
    4. Spinnerets (30) with 1000 trilobal orifices – blocking plates included to reduce hole count to 500, maximum spun denier range is 12.0 to 45.0
    5. Hill’s patented etched plates are included for extrusion of concentric sheath/core filaments, eccentric sheath/core filaments, side by side filaments, and tipped filaments with trilobal orifice spinnerets
  9. Fleissner Draw Line
    1. Comb guide
    2. Intake unit
    3. Immersion bath
    4. Drawstand 1
    5. Immersion bath
    6. Drawstand 2
    7. Steaming duct
    8. Calender 1
    9. Calender 2
    10. Calender 3
    11. Flash tank system
    12. Tow cooler
    13. Drawstand 3
    14. Tow stacker with control roller
    15. Steaming duct
    16. Crimper (Fleissner – 2 machines)
    17. Feeding unit
    18. Application unit
    19. Mechanical drive system
    20. Heating and cooling circuits
    21. One Fleissner computerized PC system
    22. One Proctor-Schwartz drying oven – steam heated – 45 ft. length
    23. Draw line capacity: 2.5 million denier
  10. Cutting And Baling
    1. One LVD Lummus staple cutter system (new)
    2. Including Fleissner tow canning system installed new in 2002 with new Lummus Autopak baler dual box, with automatic strapping
  11. Included Items
    1. One lot of general spare parts uninventoried
    2. All diagrams and documentation available