Case Study:
Leading Battery Manufacturer Increases Recycled Resin and Operating Efficiency While Reducing Energy, Wear, and Tear.
Challenge:
One out of every three automobiles in the world are powered by Clarios. Recycling old batteries into new ones is an industry mandate and represents significant processing challenges.
- Wide variability in recycled material quality changes the portion of recycled resin that can be used.
- Long part flow-lengths require high pressure to mold.
- Molds have very fragile elements easily damaged by high pressure.
As a result: less than acceptable operating efficiency, high scrap, wear and tear, frequent mold breakdowns, and capital spend.
Action:
Clarios partnered with iMFLUX to install our adaptive low-constant-pressure processing with auto viscosity adjust and measure the differences against their conventional results.
Results:
| Lower Energy Use: | 10% reduction |
| Recycled Resin Content: | Up to 90% |
| Operating Efficiency: | 18% Increase |
| Wear & Tear: | Eliminated Mold Damage |
| Mold Tear Down: | From 1/6 days to 1/30 days |
- Clarios produced 4.4M more batteries and gave employees Christmas break.
- iMFLUX has been installed across the site with more sites planned.