Best buys on Plastic (Recycling) Machinery
Being used saves money on plastic recycling and plastic lumber equipment.
"Old iron is good iron." That is a saying often heard among experienced plastic recyclers. What it simply boils down to, is that the sophistication incorporated into many modern plastic recycling machines does not lend itself to recycling plastic into plastic lumber or composition.
Rebuilt use equipment is more forgiving of the changes in the type of recycled plastic that the recycler encounters in real production. A good rebuild on plastic lumber equipment will produce recycling machinery that custom built to customer specifications with many new parts that costs only 50% of the cost of new equipment. Plastic lumber machinery can be assembled to customer specifications for a specific application. Recycled plastic lumber requires different types of equipment for different applications. Cierra Industries of Auburn NY will build special plastic lumber machinery lines to customer specifications from used, rebuilt or new machines.
The rebuilder takes the following steps when rebuilding plastic recycling or plastic lumber machinery.
Disassembles the recycling machinery
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Inspects and replaces all worn parts
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Installs new drives and electronics
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Installs new barrel and screw on extruders
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Sand blasts and paints all components of machinery
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Reassembles all machines and components
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Test runs all machines and components
By the time all of these steps are taken the recycling machinery line or plastic lumber equipment is a custom built line which is warranted and built to the customers exact needs at about half the cost of new machinery.
