Twelve years ago, NEO Group purchased \u00a0BKG\u00ae underwater pelletizers and related components for three PET polymerization lines but installed only two, storing the unused BKG equipment in their original shipping boxes. Today the company has a new, third PET line, making it the second-largest PET producer in Europe, and those 12-year-old BKG pelletizers are hard at work as if they were delivered yesterday.<\/p>\n
NEO Group had purchased the PET production lines from Zimmer AG, including twelve BKG underwater pelletizers\u2014four for each polymerization line\u2014plus polymer diverter valves, gear pumps, water systems, pellet dryers, and controls.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe simply opened the shipping boxes, assembled the BKG components, and plugged them in,\u201d said Ruslanas Radajevas, general manager. \u201cAfter twelve years in storage, everything ran extremely smoothly\u2014no problems, no troubles.\u201d<\/p>\n
The smooth startup of the pelletizing systems reflects the high quality inherent in BKG products, noted Godfrey Sandham, vice president, Nordson Polymer Processing Systems, Europe. \u201cIt was the excellent reputation of BKG pelletizers and melt delivery components that drove Nordson to acquire these businesses,\u201d said Mr. Sandham. \u201cSince then we have invested heavily in processes for continuous improvement of our products and have just completed construction of a global hub for the BKG brand in M\u00fcnster, Germany.\u201d<\/p>\n
NEO Group\u2019s third PET line adds 160,000 tons of annual capacity, bringing the company\u2019s total to 480,000 tons. The NEO Group PET resin and polyol manufacturing complex is located in Lithuania\u2019s Klaipeda Free Economic Zone. Information is available at https:\/\/neogroup.eu\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Twelve years ago, NEO Group purchased \u00a0BKG underwater pelletizers and related components for three PET polymerization lines but installed…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14727,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-14726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plas-tv-meldungen-auf-der-startseite-unterhalb-slider","category-plast-tv-textmeldungen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plas.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plas.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plas.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plas.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plas.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14726"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/plas.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14728,"href":"https:\/\/plas.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14726\/revisions\/14728"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plas.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plas.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plas.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plas.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14726"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plas.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fseries&post=14726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}