In the fiercely competitive field of plastic recycling, the demand for efficiency, stability, and raw material adaptability never ceases. Today, we proudly introduce our latest flagship model: the YC-180-150 Water-Ring Cutting Water-Cooled Pelletizer. Engineered specifically to handle complex hard lumps, flakes, and highly filled materials, this machine features an innovative primary-secondary-side feeding system that completely resolves the feeding challenges inherent in traditional pelletizers. It stands as the powerful core for achieving high-quality, high-yield recycling.
Dual-Core in One Machine: The Revolution of the Main-Auxiliary Side Feeding System
The YC-180-150’s greatest innovation lies in its unique feeding design: a main extruder paired with an auxiliary extruder and a side feeding system. This “dual-core in one machine” configuration significantly expands the machine’s material adaptability and processing efficiency.
Synergistic Enhancement of Primary and Auxiliary Units: The primary extruder handles core plasticization and extrusion tasks, ensuring output and stability. The auxiliary unit manages preheating, supplementary plasticization, or additive blending, distributing the primary unit’s load more evenly and boosting overall efficiency.
Advantages of Side Feeding: Traditional top feeding often suffers from uneven feeding, blockages, or air ingress when processing flakes, powders, or high-density regrind. The side feeding system employs a specialized structure for lateral forced feeding, ensuring continuous, stable, and uniform material intake. This is crucial for enhancing extruder plasticizing efficiency and stabilizing melt pressure.
Solving the “Underfeeding” Problem: Side feeding excels at processing bulky, low-bulk-density flake materials (e.g., film scraps) and poorly flowing, bridging-prone compacted regrind. It effectively expels air from the material, enabling high-density, continuous, and stable feeding. This ensures the extruder is consistently fed at full capacity, maximizing actual machine output.
Water Ring Cutting Technology: Quality Assurance for Rigid Pellets
The YC-180-150 employs advanced water ring cutting and water-cooled pelletizing technology, the optimal choice for ensuring the quality of hard plastic pellets.
High-Efficiency Water Ring Cutting: After extruding from the die, the molten material is instantly cut into pellets by high-speed rotating blades within the water ring. The water ring rapidly dissipates surface heat, preventing pellet adhesion and forming perfect spherical or cylindrical pellets.
Water-Cooled Solidification: The pellets are then carried by water flow into a water tank or centrifugal dewatering system. Water’s high thermal conductivity ensures complete solidification within an extremely short time. This is crucial for rigid materials (such as HDPE and PP regrind), guaranteeing stable pellet shape and uniform size.
Exceptional Pellet Quality: The resulting recycled pellets feature a smooth, full surface with extremely high shape consistency. High-quality pellets can directly replace a portion of virgin material, significantly enhancing the market value of recycled material and customers’ return on investment.
Engineered for Complex Materials: Wide Application Range
Thanks to the perfect integration of main/auxiliary side feeding systems and water ring cutting technology, the YC-180-150 demonstrates unparalleled advantages when processing complex and demanding materials:
Hard Blocks & Thick Sheets: Ideal for recycling crushed materials from injection molding, blow molding, and thick sheets of PC, ABS, PS, HDPE, etc. The side feeding system reliably conveys dense, unevenly compacted hard fragments, while water ring cutting ensures perfectly formed pellets.
Highly Filled & Color Masterbatch: The side feed port precisely injects high proportions of fillers (e.g., calcium carbonate) or color masterbatch. The combined plasticizing capacity of auxiliary and main units ensures thorough mixing of materials in the molten state, resulting in pellets with highly consistent color and composition.
Moist or Slightly Contaminated Materials: Water-ring pelletizers demonstrate superior stability compared to air-cooled systems when processing washed sheet materials containing trace moisture. Their robust extrusion system also effectively handles waste with minor contaminants or printing inks.
Stable and Durable: The Cornerstone of Long-Term Operation
The YC-180-150 is engineered with industrial demands for equipment stability and durability in mind. Critical components like the screw and barrel are crafted from special alloy steel and undergo professional nitriding or bimetallic treatment, delivering exceptional wear and corrosion resistance. The hydraulic screen-changing system enables non-stop screen replacement, ensuring continuous production. The entire machine is equipped with intelligent temperature control and pressure monitoring systems, featuring a user-friendly interface that achieves high automation and low maintenance costs.
The YC-180-150 Water-Ring Cutting Water-Cooled Pelletizer is your ideal choice for upgrading recycling lines. Combining high efficiency, high quality, and high stability, it serves as a powerful tool for transforming waste into valuable resources in the recycling of hard materials and complex waste streams.
