In order to achieve a desired ROI, many paint manufacturers seek to reduce their thickener usage levels into their final mix.

Location: Asia
Industry: Paint & Coatings

Semi-Bulk Systems designed a Process XStreamlining Solution that utilized the Vacucam® Mixer-On-Tank (MOT) slurry process for single pass thickener addition. The system provides the features needed:

• Stainless steel construction
• Ingredient dump hopper with patented Air-Cone® technology.
• A sanitary centrifugal pump, operator control panel as well as manual controls.

Once completed, Semi-Bulk System’s MOT design can serve as many as 8 let down tanks at floor level.

We delivered Our Performance Guarantee that:

• Achieved a 10-15% savings in thickener usage due to efficiency of thickener functionalization.
• Simplified this paint manufacturer’s process for making, transferring and storing 15t batches of thickener stock solutions.
• Improved quality by dramatically increased water availability for up-stream processing; rapidly dispersing thickener directly into multiple paint mix tanks.
• Achieved a 99% batch consistency while eradicating finished batch adjustments.
• Use of the VACUCAM® Ejector Mixer achieved a 70% savings in process energy vs. high speed shear devices and/or agitators.
• Reached a 70% reduction in process time.

“Thicken” your profitability while improving batch-to-batch consistency. To see if the replacement of the inefficient manufacturing processes with Semi-Bulk’s state-of-the-art VACUCAM mixing technology can improve your production efficiency, contact us.

In order to achieve a desired ROI, many of our paint manufacturers seek to reduce their batch cycle times for batching thickeners into their let down tanks.

Location: New York
Industry: Paint & Coatings

Semi-Bulk Systems patented Vacucam® EJM 2000 inline modular skid provides a simple robust portable system that includes:

• Our patented Vacucam® Mixer-On-Stand (MOS) slurry process for single pass thickener addition
• Stainless steel construction
• Ingredient dump hopper with patented Air-Cone® technology.
• A sanitary centrifugal pump, operator control panel as well as manual controls.

Once completed, Semi-Bulk System’s mobile MOS design can serve as many as 8 let down tanks at floor level.

We always deliver our Performance Guarantee to achieve their desired ROI:

• Rapid and efficient hydration of thickeners without agglomerates or fisheyes.
• Reduction in thickener usage of 23%+
• Delivery of batch-to-batch consistency.
• Increased yield of 20-30%.
• Reduced batch cycle time from 90 to 8 minutes

The system is so efficient, many of our paint customers purchase multiple systems to “thicken” their profitability. Are you looking for the same efficiency for your next project, then contact us.

Our paint manufacturing customers have…

• Increased capacity and capability to make excess sales needs in one shift/5 days vs. inability to meet sales needs in multiple shifts/7 days.
• Improved to 99% batch consistency and eliminated need for batch adjustments
• Generated manufacturing cost savings of $0.40/ gallon
• Achieved a 90% Energy savings for pigment dispersion based on > 15million gallons/yr.

That’s the color of savings!

• Increased plant capacity by 400% while reducing personnel by 30%.

• Provided production capacity and growth with existing real estate vs. building new facility, saving millions.

Location: California
Industry: Chemical

That’s not all. Our paint manufacturers have…

• Eliminated process for making 15t batches of thickener stock solutions
• Eliminated problems with transfer of thickener stock
• Eliminated quality issues with storage of stock solutions
• Greatly increases water availability for upstreams processing
• Rapidly dispersed thickener directly into multiple paint mix tanks.
• 70% savings in process energy
• 70% reduction in process time
• 10-15% savings in thickener usage due to efficiency of process functionalization
• ROI recalculated to 3 months from original 12 month estimate

Painting a more profitable bottom line!

99% batch consistency and eradication of finished batch adjustments.

Location: Wisconsin
Industry: Dairy