What Do You Want To Grind?
  • Entire part, portions of a part, or sprue/runners
  • Type of Material
    • Hard/Soft
    • Brittle/Tough
    • Filled/Unfilled
  • Temperature of Parts
This helps to determine the rotor design, horsepower, soundproofing and infeed What Size is your Part or Scrap?
  • Physical size
  • Shape
  • Wall Thickness
This helps determine the feed hopper, cutting chamber size, and chamber configuration How Much Do You Want to Granulate?
  • Desired throughput rate
    • Very important for Centralized Granulators
    • Significant when running one machine for multiple production lines
Helps determine horsepower, rotor design, rotor speed, number of knives (rotor and stator), screen size and regrind removal

If you can answer these three questions, you can work with your Arlington Plastics Machinery Rep to see which used or new machine is right for you.  In addition to our vast inventory of used equipment, we also sell the complete line of NEW Virtus Granulators, Shredders, Pulverizers and Liquid Extraction Equipment.

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