GORILLABELT

Automatic screen changer
for post-consumer recycled plastic

Discover Gorillabelt, Cofit’s most powerful screen changer for post consumer recycled plastic. It ensures uninterrupted production, low polymer loss, and exceptional filtration, even with highly and different contaminated materials.

HOW GORILLABELT WORKS

The molten material is conveyed by an extruder through the filter screen. Losses of molten material are totally prevented by a pair of wedges that seal the passage openings of the screen..

The impurities contained in the extrudate accumulate on the surface of the screen causing an increase in pressure upstream of the filter. When the differential between the inlet and outlet melt pressure exceeds the set threshold, or alternatively the preset timer value has elapsed, a dedicated valve closes the melt flow channel and both sealing wedges move to allow the progress of the filter screen. The contaminated section of the screen is then replaced with a clean one.

Look at the video to see GorillaBelt in action.

During filter replacement, the extrusion cycle is not interrupted: the extruder continues to convey the molten material into an accumulator cylinder. As soon as the clean filter section is positioned correctly, the sealing wedges close again and the unit is sealed again. The inlet valve opens and the accumulator cylinder slowly pushes the accumulated melt into the flow channel. As soon as the accumulator cylinder has completed the return stroke to the initial position, the screen change cycle is completed.

GORILLABELT ADVANTAGES

With GorillaBelt your production line can be improved in multiple aspects:

low polymer loss during cleaning cycle
production of excellent quality materials with zero or very low level of impurities
use of very contaminated raw materials, e.g. highly-contaminated post-consumer materials.
extrusion of most thermoplastics
automation level increase, easily manageable and user friendly controlled
increase of output rates
reduction of personnel costs involved in manual operation
reduction in lines shutdowns
reduction of maintenance interventions
24/7 uninterrupted production

IMPORTANCE FOR FILTERING

In secondary plastics recycling and re-pelletizing, impurity filtering is playing an increasingly important role. The quality of the filtering process determines the quality level of the final recycled material, its scope and fields of application, as well its price on the market.

HIGHLY-CONTAMINATED MATERIALS

The GorillaBelt screen changer can be employed for filtering highly contaminated plastic materials, e.g. agricultural or building films and post-consumer materials.

FAST FILTERING
SCREEN CHANGING

GorillaBelt filtering system involves automatic replacement of clean and fresh filtering screen at every change. Even with the most contaminated materials, GorillaBelt screen changer ensures several filtering screen changes. Screen changing process takes less than two minutes.

ZERO WASTE

Material waste is reduced to minimum. Due to the special GorillaBelt screen changer technology and design, only dirt, impurities and plastics, sticking onto the filtering screen surface are discarded – a remarkable advantage to be considered as waste disposal costs are elevated

AUTOMATIC REPLACEMENT

The key strength of GorillaBelt screen changer lies in its automatic operation. Based on programmable setups, operation of GorillaBelt screen changer does not require any operator intervention, except for screen belt replacement (the belt is approx. 50m long). The screen belt replacement interval depends on the level of impurities in the filtered material. Filtering belt replacement takes approx. 10 minutes.

TECHNICAL DATA

Processing:	Automatic
Type of material:	Steel
Filtering area:	up to 900 cm²
Heaters:	Armored – Ceramic
Material contamination:	Very High
Operating Temperature contamination:	Up to 350°C (662°F)
Pressure contamination:	Up to 200 bar (2.900 psi)
Hourly capacity:	Up to 2.000 Kg (4.400 pounds)
Polymers:	HDPE, LDPE, LLDPE, PP, ABS, PS, and more
Products and Applications:	Pelletized product for film grade too

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VIDEO

GorillaBelt 3D ANIMATION

Watch a 3D animation with detailed explanations of GorillaBelt internal operation

Double GorillaBelt on duty

Watch a double GorillaBelt installation running PE flakes

Cofit deals with research, engineering, manufacture and distribution of automatic and continuous screen changers for post-consumer and post-industrial recycling materials, too.

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