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Conair
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a standard Conair table-top manifold.
Through flexible hoses, the
manifold can supply up to six different
source materials for vacuum
conveyance to up to 36 machine,
blender, dryer or other
destinations.
In setting up a job, an operator
designates the source and desti-
nation in the material-handling
system control and, via a push-fit
connector, manually connects
the appropriate flexible hose to
the proper outlet ports. The control
indicates to an operator exactly
where a hose connection
needs to be made.
Before conveying anything, the
camera moves behind the selector
table and positions itself between
the appropriate rows of
ports, confirming to the materialhandling
system control that the
correct connections have been
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seconds to complete, the company
said.
Conair’s large-scale ELS system
and smaller, flexible FLX control
are compatible and connect via
Ethernet to the MVP system.
Conair claims the MVP system
will give users a return on invested
capital in months rather than
years.
The patent-pending automated
resin manager selection station
uses robotic actuators to route
plastic material from one place to
another by digital
instructions entered
in any of Conair’s
central materialconveying
system
controls. Operators
use the ARM control
interface to identify
source and destination.
The new materialselection
station has
a bottom manifold
with inlet ports for
32 different sources
of material and an
‘We can provide a
total solution to a
person putting in a
greenfield plant
and that gives us
an advantage.’
Christopher Keller
Conair Group
outlet manifold with 16 ports corresponding
to various destinations.
The ARM system includes
two pneumatically driven actuators
and one flexible tube.
Baker said ARM is simple and
comparatively inexpensive, unlike
some automatic material distribution
systems with multiple
mechanical motions and numerous
flexible hoses.
Maintaining focus
The economic slowdown drove
Conair to tighten operations,
sharpen its focus, expand customer
service and push promising
technical innovations. “We
were not immune from what
every Western business experienced,”
Keller said.
As for 2012, he is “cautiously
optimistic” about sales. “We’ve
got to be sure we are hitting on
all cylinders across the whole
portfolio,” he noted.
Currently, the firm’s main business
challenge — managing
growth — requires finding
enough people with the right talents
and applying those resources
globally, Keller said in a
telephone interview. “The other
challenge is to assure consistency
[of value] … everywhere we
are,” he said.
Conair has “seen strong double-digit
growth everywhere
[with] more and more greenfield
opportunities from customers”
than three or four years ago, he
said. “We can provide a total solution
to a person putting in a
greenfield plant and that gives us
an advantage.”
While providing all of the auxiliaries
for a greenfield operation is
rare, Conair’s wide-ranging functional
capabilities — blend, cool,
convey, feed, grind, dry, extrude,
store — position it to compete
for multiple equipment orders.
The company is touting innovations
in each of its product lines,
according to Larry Doyle, vice
president of global sales and marketing.
Doyle underscored how
Conair’s customer-driven focus
had led to technology advances
such as complete PET preform
molding cells, the EnergySmart
drying system
and TrueWeigh
hoppers for film
and sheet processing.
Doyle
“We know
what specific
end markets
[customers] are
looking for, and
these don’t
just apply to
U.S. but to global customers,”
Doyle said.
Conair, based in the Pittsburgh
suburb of Cranberry Township,
Pa., expanded its operations in
Michigan and India last year.
The company acquired a
50,000-square-foot facility in Pinconning,
Mich., and, in September,
moved manufacturing, laboratory,
and conference and
training operations for its downstream
extrusion business from
an 18,000-square-foot location in
Bay City, Mich.
In March 2011, Conair joint venture
Nu-Vu Conair Pvt. Ltd. relocated
its Ahmedabad, India, operations
to a newly constructed
35,000-square-foot building from
a 15,000-square-foot site. For the
region’s market, the operation
makes Nu-Vu lines and Conair-de-
‘We know what
specific end markets
[customers]
are looking for, and
these don’t just apply
to U.S. but to
global customers.’
Larry Doyle
Conair Group
signed equipment like desiccantwheel
dryers and EarthSmart
portable chillers.
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Conair offers more than 450 individual
products.
Worldwide the company employs
over 300, with manufacturing
and sales operations in North
America and Asia, as well as sales
offices also in Europe and South
America.
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