Plastics processing machinery
Machinery & Equipment

Ancillary Equipment

Blending, drying, conveying, granulating, temperature control, ultrasonic welding, robotics and measurement.

Hestico stays at the forefront of the plastics and packaging industries, not only by providing essential equipment but also through our selection of ancillary equipment for a wide range of applications. Our range of ultrasonic welding machines and ultrasonic welding generators meets our clients’ welding and cutting requirements with precision and reliability.

Our portfolio also includes injection moulding equipment designed to optimise your production line. The right ancillary tools are as important as the main machine for a smooth, efficient and productive manufacturing process.

Our blending and material handling systems are designed to streamline your processes. Efficient blending is essential for consistent product quality, and our blending systems give homogeneous mixing with precise control. Our drying systems handle moisture-sensitive materials, giving the right drying conditions to protect the quality of your products.

Adding central feeding systems to your operation can increase productivity by automating the delivery of materials to the processing equipment. This reduces manual handling and keeps a continuous, controlled flow of material – important for consistent production and less waste.

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Blending, drying and central feeding system

Gravimetric weigh scale blenders for injection moulding, blow moulding and extruders. MAGUIRE is a global technology leader in material management systems for plastics moulding, extrusion, and compounding. The company manufactures Gravimetric blenders, Granulators, Liquid color pumps, Volumetric auger feeders, Vacuum dryers, Venturi loaders, Resin dryers, Controllers Level sensing alarm systems and Networking software.

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Maguire – Blending, drying and central feeding system
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Ultrasonic welding

RINCO has been developing and manufacturing high-performance ultrasonic welding and cutting machines for 30 years. RINCO ULTRASONICS AG is one of the leading producers of ultrasonic thermoplastic welding machines. The RINCO Product Range includes: Ultrasonic Welding Machines, Ultrasonic Welding Generators, Hand Welding Units, Cutting Units and Components.

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RINCO – Ultrasonic welding
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Loaders, hot air dryers and mould temperature controllers

YANN BANG, is a specialist manufacturer of automatic auxiliary conveying and drying system for plastic and rubber industry in Taiwan and was founded in 1974. With continuous R&D over four decades, we were awarded several patents in Taiwan, Japan, USA, Germany, and China. With the honour of “Taiwan Symbol of Excellence Winner”, CE certification, ISO 9001, we supply the best quality and service to 80 countries, globally. Yann Bang has a complete products line and provide total solutions to your production facility such as drying system, dosing system, temperature heating & cooling system, conveying system, recycling system, and more.

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Yann Bang – Loaders, hot air dryers and mould temperature controllers
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Loaders, hot air dryers and mould temperature controllers

Anhui Kaifeng Plastic Machinery Co., Ltd. is a manufacturing enterprise in the field of plastic auxiliary equipment and industrial temperature control integrating manufacturing, sales, and service. Equipment includes conveying systems, temperature heating systems, cooling systems and much more. It relies on excellent manufacturing experience, implements the management mechanism of quality control and responsibility system, and strictly implements the ISO9001 international quality system certification standard. With advanced production technology, Kaifeng machinery has won the trust and support of most users. Its products are used in plastics, medicine, papermaking, food, chemical industry, metal electroplating, electronics, optics, DVD discs, textiles, spraying, magnesium alloy die casting, rubber, tires, extrusion Equipment for civil and other industries. The air-cooled chillers, water-cooled chillers and other products are exported to India, Malaysia, Vietnam, Singapore, Thailand and other countries, and OEM products are manufactured for peers at home and abroad.

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Kaifeng – Loaders, hot air dryers and mould temperature controllers
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Granulators and Shredders

TRIA is one of the most qualified producer of blades granulators, shredders, conveying and treatment system of plastics waste from plastic processing.

Injection moulding: Granulators up to 200 m/Tons, in line runners up to 150°C, cold scraps.

Grinding of all plastics, from TPU to PA 6.6, filled with glass up to 25%.

Optimal in-feed of the regrind material into dosing and feeding system.

Blow moulding: Full range of granulators for small bottles, tanks and jerry cans to 200 lt, coex fuel tanks 15 kg, IBC container, without pre-cutting.

Start-up grinding up to 23.000 bottles/hr of 0,75 lt, without fly-back.

Extrusion: Manual feeding at 1,5 m sheets, pipes and profiles 6 m long.

Grinding chamber with 3, 5 or 7 rotating knives, for processing all resins, PLA, ABS, EPS, PET and all products, expanded, honeycomb, full and deep sheets.

Film: Inline recovery of edge trims CPP and LLDPE up to 1.000 m/min and 600 kg/h.

High density of flake, up to 150 g/dm³, gives ease of feed back to the production machine.

Complete system from edge trim intake to extruder throat or storage container.

Thermoforming: Granulators cater for 100 to 5.000 kg/hr at start-up of full sheets, sheets with cups and skeletal waste.

Sheets width from 600 mm to 2.000 mm, up to 250 mm products height up to 3 mm thickness.

Granulators installed under trim press or stacking station, at the end of the line or into a pit to be perfectly matched to all thermoforming machines.

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Tria – Granulators and Shredders
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Granulators and Shredders

Medium-speed online granulator – The medium-speed crusher is suitable to be placed around the injection moulding machine and used in conjunction with the recycler and dryer to form a fast recovery system.
Slow-speed online granulator – Slow speed crusher occupies less land, low energy consumption, and can be used continuously throughout the day; Multiple models are ready for selection, suitable for the recycling of nozzle materials of different sizes.
European granulator – This machine can not only crush waste products produced in injection moulding, but also crush pipes, profiles, sheets, materials, containers, TV casings, car bumpers, etc. It has the characteristics of economy, durability, easy cleaning, and long service life.
Soundproof granulator with collector – Four types of knife-shaped crushers can be made into silent models, suitable for processing different materials; The whole body adopts a fully enclosed structure and is provided with a sound insulation device, which can effectively reduce the noise generated during crushing.
Claw type granulator – Adopting the design of the front knife set, increasing the cutting angle of the blade, improving the cutting efficiency, the particle shape after crushing is uniform, and the powder is small; The claw-shaped knife set is better for large rubber head materials or materials with higher hardness.
Flat type granulator – Adopting the design of the front knife set, increasing the cutting angle of the blade, improving the cutting efficiency, the particle shape after crushing is uniform, and the powder is small; The flat knife set is suitable for various blow moulding parts, hollow products, various film products, such as PET bottles.

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Kaifeng – Granulators and Shredders
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Magnets

Hopper Magnets are used to protect plastic processing machinery from metal contamination. Kaifeng offers various sizes to suit every application.

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Kaifeng – Magnets
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Melt pressure and temperature instrumentation

Dynisco is known worldwide for leading-edge pressure and temperature measurement and control products for the plastics extrusion industry. More than a parts supplier, Dynisco specializes in developing solutions to address the many processing challenges of extrusion, moulding, and process control applications. Dynisco products are designed and manufactured to the highest quality standards

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Dynisco – Melt pressure and temperature instrumentation
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Robotics and Automation

Abiman provides solutions required to establish and manage an optimum manufacturing environment to hardware, software, and smart factory.

They are constantly striving in the development of injection moulding, robotics, and processing automation industry in accumulating the necessary know-how.

Abiman’s robots have been proven and satisfied customers for years with its optimal design, know-how, reliable battlefield configuration, and exceptional scalability to respond to a wide range of injection-type businesses.

  1. Adaptation Optimization, Robot Design
  2. Reproducibility & Business Scalability
  3. Optimal robot control solution for powerful, automated performance
  4. Work Environment Improvement and Safety Improvement Solutions
  5. Energy Efficiency Solutions
  6. User Experience Optimization Solution

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Abiman – Robotics and Automation
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Cooling water flow regulators

The function of a Flowise flow regulator is to control the mould cooling water for injection, extrusion, diecasting machines, or other applications where it is necessary to manage fluid control.

Flowise Flow regulators are made of 50- or 60-mm plexiglass© machined blocks, tested at 20 bar to guarantee no water leaks. They are equipped with double manifolds (water to mould and from mould) and with only regulation and visualization of flow. Flowise water flow control devices are different for hydraulic connections that can be under the frame (5 Serie) or back (2 Serie) equipped with adjustable water flow control brass valves. Flowise is the only water flow regulators manufacturer that produces a modular system: blocks from 1 to 6 zones can be assembled up to 24 zones with a central manifold and back hydraulic connections for the best flow distribution. The water flow rate regulation is visible on-screen printing scale using 4 interchangeable different floats made in PVC, red anodized aluminium and brass, each one has a flow range: 0-3,5 Lpm(PVC) 0-8,3 Lpm(red anodized aluminium) 1-15 Lpm(brass type 1) 4-25 Lpm(brass type 2).

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Flowise – Cooling water flow regulators
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Intelligent temperature control technologies

REGLOPLAS is the leading provider of intelligent solutions for temperature control, with an extensive portfolio of temperature control units, temperature control solutions and cooling units. Products and systems enable precise and efficient processes for equipment and manufacturing methods in the fields of injection molding, die casting, extrusion, composites, food production, semiconductor and electronics manufacturing, test equipment, and other advanced manufacturing processes. Solutions enable technological advancement in the automotive, aerospace, plastics, rubber, electronics, pharmaceutical, chemical, medical, food and packaging markets.

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Regloplas – Intelligent temperature control technologies
FAQ

Ancillary Equipment: common questions

What ancillary equipment do I need next to an injection moulding machine?

Typically a dryer, a loader or central feeding system, a blender or dosing unit, a mould temperature controller or chiller, cooling water flow regulators and a granulator for runners and rejects. Hestico supplies all of these.

Do you supply granulators for blow moulding and film?

Yes. Tria and Kaifeng granulators cover injection moulding, blow moulding (bottles to 200-litre drums), extrusion, film edge trim and thermoforming.

Which melt pressure sensors do you supply?

Dynisco pressure and temperature measurement and control products for extrusion, moulding and process control.

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Contact Hestico for all your supply, parts and servicing needs in the plastics and packaging industries. With extensive knowledge and experience, our friendly teams are ready to help keep your machinery in top condition and running smoothly.

Johannesburg Head Office

Juanita Stiehler Brits
+27 11 786 5228+27 11 885 1693juanita.sb@hestico.co.za
96 10th Road, Kew, Johannesburg, 2090, South Africa

Durban Office

Craig Knight
+27 31 467 0414+27 31 467 0410craig.k@hestico.co.za
2 Albizia Place, Maxmead, Pinetown, Durban, 3610, South Africa

Cape Town Office

William Johnstone
+27 21 510 8322+27 21 511 4706william.j@hestico.co.za
Unit 10, Freeway Park, Cnr Berkley & Upper Camp Street, Cape Town, South Africa

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