Reduction Engineering Inc. has built itself into a global player in pelletizing equipment for compounders by purchasing the Scheer pelletizing business in Germany a year ago, and earlier acquiring Conair Group Inc.’s line of pelletizers and handling U.S. manufacturing, sales and service for Econ GmbH of Austria.
The biggest international move came in November 2008, when Reduction bought the pelletizer business of C.F. Scheer & CIE GmbH + Co. KG.
The overall company is now called Reduction Engineering Scheer Inc. Buying Scheer gave Reduction pelletizer manufacturing in Stuttgart, Germany, and at the Kent headquarters.
“We’re going to morph some of our technology together,” he said. The first examples could be shown at the K trade show in Germany in 2010.
Sly said existing product lines of pelletizers will remain. Pelletizers which chop strands of resin into finished pellets
The last two years have been busy for the company. Reduction invested about $6 million to build a new headquarters plant at a Kent industrial park, and add an automated paint line to an existing building nearby.
A major part of the 85,000-square-foot headquarters is a 10,000-square-foot laboratory — giving Reduction, for the first time, a dedicated space for extrusion into pelletizing lines. The Scheer plant in Stuttgart has the same-size laboratory.
All the pelletizers made by Reduction Engineering Scheer can be wheeled into the laboratory, giving customers access to the full line of strand and underwater pelletizers, and auxiliary equipment.
The laboratory gives Reduction a big advantage over competing pelletizer makers for compounding, according to John Sly, regional sales manager and son of the president. Customers can come to Kent to run material trials or to run their exact pelletizing equipment before it’s shipped out.
John Sly used Reduction’s 800 Series strand pelletizer as an example. Reduction can build a standard pelletizer in about two weeks, but the company also can manufacture fully customized lines based on dimensions and the material the pelletizer will be running.
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