It's been a month since Hayward announced its purchase of Graham Engineering Corporation (GEC) accumulator head blow molding machine to fortify its business progressive growth by producing heavy-duty pool filters with a wide array of sizes.
GEC Accumulator Head Blow Molding Machine Specs:
Scott Pugh, Manufacturing Manager of Hayward, said that they've been through a extensive review of potential suppliers based on their machine's innovation and technical capabilities. Aside from the machine's innovative specs, Pugh pointed out that the key selling point of Graham is its machine's fast color change capability.
With Graham’s advanced overlapping spiral-diverter design accumulator head, it only takes less done an hour to change colors compared to others that would take 8 to 12 hours. Graham even demonstrated both white-to-black (complete color change in 6 shots) and black-to-platinum (30 shots) color changes during Hayward’s machine acceptance.
Good move by Hayward?
In a month's time, it's hard to tell. However, about 3 years ago, Hayward took a move that alarmed some experts.
With Pugh's determination to bring Hayward to the limelight from being a "typical" U.S. manufacture in the late 90's, revamped its entire process operation. And in 2008, Hayward's molder switched from using pellet concentrates to liquid colors on three large blow
molding machines to produce housings for filter tanks, expert considered this very risky.
The switch was supplied by Riverdale Color Co., Perth Amboy, N.J. for the purpose of producing products that are in demand and reduce inventory at the same time. There have been financial issues but after comprehensive trials, Hayward went with Riverdale’s Pump-in-a- Drum liquid color system combined with a weigh-scale blender furnished by Riverdale sister company Maguire Products, Aston, Pa.
Full story here.
It's quite intriguing how Hayward changed its processing methods in 3 years time. This is an obvious indication of the company's rapid growth and in the first place they have gone through many changes before.
If this recent progress will support their growth... time will tell.
GEC Accumulator Head Blow Molding Machine Specs:
- 6 inch bore grooved extruder with 400 HP AC
- a 50-lb. series head
- proprietary GEC XBM Navigator PC controls
- a 60 x 60 inch press with pre-pinch and blow pin assembly with quick change over
- 140 tons of clamping force and independent servo platen control
Scott Pugh, Manufacturing Manager of Hayward, said that they've been through a extensive review of potential suppliers based on their machine's innovation and technical capabilities. Aside from the machine's innovative specs, Pugh pointed out that the key selling point of Graham is its machine's fast color change capability.
With Graham’s advanced overlapping spiral-diverter design accumulator head, it only takes less done an hour to change colors compared to others that would take 8 to 12 hours. Graham even demonstrated both white-to-black (complete color change in 6 shots) and black-to-platinum (30 shots) color changes during Hayward’s machine acceptance.
Good move by Hayward?
In a month's time, it's hard to tell. However, about 3 years ago, Hayward took a move that alarmed some experts.
With Pugh's determination to bring Hayward to the limelight from being a "typical" U.S. manufacture in the late 90's, revamped its entire process operation. And in 2008, Hayward's molder switched from using pellet concentrates to liquid colors on three large blow
molding machines to produce housings for filter tanks, expert considered this very risky.
The switch was supplied by Riverdale Color Co., Perth Amboy, N.J. for the purpose of producing products that are in demand and reduce inventory at the same time. There have been financial issues but after comprehensive trials, Hayward went with Riverdale’s Pump-in-a- Drum liquid color system combined with a weigh-scale blender furnished by Riverdale sister company Maguire Products, Aston, Pa.
Full story here.
It's quite intriguing how Hayward changed its processing methods in 3 years time. This is an obvious indication of the company's rapid growth and in the first place they have gone through many changes before.
If this recent progress will support their growth... time will tell.
1 comments:
Post a Comment