Somebody sends me a photo most weeks. A purge lump sitting on a concrete floor, a boot or a drink can next to it for scale, and one line underneath: “can we feed this as-is?” That’s the right question to ask, and it’s the one nobody answers...
“How many kilos per hour?” It’s the second question everybody asks, right after the price. And it’s the question that gets answered badly more often than any other, because the number on the brochure and the number you’ll actually get are...
This is the question behind half the emails I get from plant managers. “We run film offcuts, some thick-walled reject parts, a bit of pipe, and purge blocks from changeovers. Do we need a different shredder for each one?” The short answer is almost always...
Everybody asks the same first question: how much is the machine? It’s a fair question, but it’s the wrong one to lead with. The purchase price is the deposit. What you actually live with for the next ten years is the running cost — and that number is where...
Walk into almost any injection molding shop and there’s a corner where the purge lumps live. Startup purges from changeovers, color-change blocks, off-spec parts, the occasional solid lump the size of a shoe box. Somebody wheels a bin out there every week and it...
