Italian, Taiwanese firms join to serve China’s plastics extrusion market

Based in Dongguan, Guangdong Province, Shini-Syncro Extrusion Control Inc. will manufacture and provide products and services in the fields of gravimetric dosing and mixing systems, central conveying systems, film-thickness measurement and control systems, and central monitoring systems for extrusion lines. The joint venture will integrate the advanced extrusion line process-control expertise of Syncro with Shini's advantages of global marketing channels and low-cost manufacturing.

Shini's core business is the manufacture and sales of plastics auxiliary equipment including dryers, feeders and conveyors, dosers and mixers, mold-temperature regulators, granulators and recycling equipment, robots, and hot runner systems. As such, its traditional customers have been injection molders.

At the Chinaplas show held Apr. 19-22 in Shanghai, Shini unveiled a series of new products, including the SCD-ES "all-in-one" energy-saving compact dryer series, which integrates dehumidifying, drying, and conveying into a single unit. Especially suitable for processing hygroscopic engineering plastic materials, such as ABS, PA, PC, PBT, and PET, the series employs a silicone honeycomb-rotor. Shini also debuted a mold-temperature regulator that employs a magnetic pump in place of the traditional shaft-seal pump. Shini says the contactless pump is less prone to leakage and is also maintenance free, whereas the mechanical shaft seal of a standard pump normally needs to be changed annually. —Stephen Moore