Moisture in Plastic Products

To optimize your manufacturing productivity, moisture measurement and control should be utilized to your benefit with MoistTech’s IR-3000. Plastic moisture measurement is easy when this equipment is incorporated into your facility. The IR-3000 doesn’t add any extra work to your staff – in fact, it frees your employees to complete other tasks.

Plastic Chips / Granules

Recycled plastic has endless uses and plastic pellet moisture content is a crucial step when recycling the material into its next use. The process of turning piles of used plastics into usable products involves a long, complex process. During this process, plastic items are reduced to plastic chips, which are then washed, dried, made into granules, molded into plastic pellets, and reborn into new items. Without the right processing of the plastic during the recycling and production processes, the product quality becomes inferior.

Plastic Powders

Achieving the right moisture content for plastic powders is of the utmost importance. After the initial evaporation process has been completed, a moisture content of 3-5% is typical. This makes it necessary to carry out a second evaporation process, generally referred to as stripping, which is intended to bring moisture content as close to 0% as possible.

The IR-3000 makes for the ideal plastic moisture analyzer. It takes instant, non-contact measurements of moisture in % dry and % wet; allowing you to adjust moisture either automatically or manually to suit your needs. And that’s not all it does. Temperature, water-based coatings, chemical composition, and more are easily measured using the IR-3000.