Rapid growth in the US economy is being driven by construction right now, as corporations move fast to set up new industrial buildings and renew their equipment. This means big changes for the rubber industry.
That’s because rubber compounds are used pretty much everywhere: in microscopic components, seals for machinery of every size and shape, pipes for oil and gas, or liquids transportation, for components to be used in the most extreme conditions: space travel or in specialized manufacturing.
Whatever the need, US companies want to update their equipment fast, with the highest quality options on the market, with short lead times, while dealing with a US-based corporation.
VMI fits that description in every case. We have served the US rubber industry for well over 20 years from our Ohio base, introducing high performance innovations and supporting them with fast response service, supporting our German Engineering standards, with prices that reflect our lower cost manufacturing base.
At the Global Polymer Summit in Cleveland, you can see one of our most vital innovations: automated strainer plate cleaning in operation.
VMI Strainer Plate Cleaning station
|VMI is known in every industry where it competes for the power of our automated solutions. We pioneered the concept of “Hands-off, Eyes-off” in tire building, launching the completely automated TBMs that are standard across the industry. Now we are using the same techniques for our integrated extrusion and gear pump systems.
By using robotics for plate cleaning, we speed up the process while cutting out human labor more or less entirely. Plate cleaning is traditionally one of the most time-consuming, unpleasant and dirty of all the jobs done in the rubber industry. VMI is now making that ancient history by automating the process and using robotics to get the job done faster and more easily.
A partly cleaned strainer plate
|Trained personnel are now protected from environmental hazards and can use their skills to drive extra production. Use of automated plate cleaning boosts productivity and drives down unit costs, making your business more competitive in the market.
VMI is committed to the US Market, delivers its full services from inside the United States and has technologies that will make every business in the market more competitive, more responsive to changing demand and able to produce higher quality products for complex needs.
Backed by our unique management software, VMI’s extrusion and gear pump systems enable you to make even the most specialized components from the same, standard machine, while achieving productivity levels that used to be impossible.
Remember, the VMI automated Strainer Plate Cleaning Station will be on our stand (stand number 1430) at the Global Polymer Summit in Cleveland OH from September 8th to 11th.
