Resin drying, conveying, blending & complete systems

Up to 70% of your costs are resin.

Our only business is protecting and enhancing it, from the initial delivery to the throat.

A molded preform — the part a press makes out of dried, blended resin
Molded part

Material path

01

Resin delivery

02

Railcar unloading

03

Silos & surge bins

04

Conveying pumps

05

Dust collection

06

Receivers & loaders

07

Plant-wide controls

08

Blending

09

Drying

10

Process

Some loss is built into the process. The rest is preventable, and that’s where we work.

Is your resin leaking profit?

Every one of these started upstream. That’s where we work.

Splay

Brittle parts

Warpage

Black specks

Voids

Short shots

Fines & dust

Angel hair

What we make

Wherever your resin starts — railcar, truck, silo, bag, or Gaylord — this is where it leaks, and what we make to stop it.

Novatec takes it here
01

Receive.

After the coupling, the resin’s condition is yours.

A rough unload adds fines and moisture before anything else can.

Ours unloads it clean, dry, and without damage.

Novatec railcar unloading unit
Railcar & truck unloading
02

Store.

Silos breathe humid air every time the temperature swings.

Wet material at the wall stops matching the core.

Ours keeps the air inside dry, however long it sits.

Diagram: two pellets from the same silo. Over one temperature swing the pellet at the wall takes on five moisture markers and the pellet at the core takes on one. They end visibly different.
Wall
Core
Novatec outdoor resin silos
Silos & surge bins
03

Convey.

Every transfer is friction.

Elbows shed fines, high line speeds make angel hair.

Ours controls velocity so pellets arrive whole.

Diagram: two identical conveying runs carrying one pellet each, arriving at the outlet together. The high-velocity pellet sheds fines at both elbows, lays angel hair on the wall, and arrives abraded. The controlled-velocity pellet arrives whole.
High velocity
Controlled velocity
Novatec vacuum conveying pump skid
Conveying pumps
Novatec vacuum receivers
Receivers & loaders
Novatec plant-wide control cabinet
Plant-wide controls
04

Clean.

Fines and streamers don’t leave on their own.

Dust at the machine means black specks in the part.

Ours pulls it out before the resin is blended or dried.

Novatec cyclone dust collector
Dust collectors
05

Blend.

Virgin, regrind, color, and additives meet here by recipe.

An off-spec blend wastes the most expensive part of it.

Ours holds the recipe to tolerance and shows you the weight.

Novatec gravimetric blender and feeder
Blenders & feeders
06

Dry.

Under-dried resin makes defective parts.

Over-dried resin makes structurally compromised ones.

Ours dries to a number, not a timer.

Diagram: three pellets giving up moisture. The first stops early and keeps four moisture markers. The second gives up all six and stops, because it was dried to a number. The third keeps going, loses three more drawn from its own body, and ends visibly shrunken with nothing else to see.
Under-dried
Dried to a number
Over-dried — no visible difference
Two Novatec portable resin dryers
Dryers & moisture verification
07

To the throat.

This is where it stops being resin and starts being your part.

Delivered dry, blended to your recipe, and protected the whole way —

because getting resin to the throat is easy. Getting it there ready is the job.

[Photo — resin entering the press throat]
Novatec hands it over here

Every stage above stands on its own, or connects into one plant-wide system. Buy a single unit or the whole thing. We build both.

One unit or the whole plant — have it your way

Buy a single unit. Or let us design, build, and install the whole path.

Novatec engineers on a plant floor beside installed conveying equipment

Specialists in every stage that touches your resin, from delivery to the throat.

Our engineers visit your site, design the piping and controls that connect it all, and manage it end to end.

When a system needs mold-temperature controllers, chillers, or granulators, we bring in the best in each category — the specialists who make nothing else — to your spec.

Proof

Every claim we publish starts here.

The Resin Proving Ground is Novatec’s working laboratory in Baltimore — 4,200 square feet where dryers, conveying systems, and resins are tested before anything gets claimed in print.

More than a thousand validation tests across ABS, PC, nylon, PBT, and PET.

[Photo — Resin Proving Ground, Baltimore]
Location

Baltimore, Maryland

Floor area

4,200 sq ft

Validation tests

1,000+

Resins tested

ABS · PC · nylon · PBT · PET

How-to articles & videos for the plant floor

The Knowledge Center: where processors solve resin problems.

Practical guides on drying, conveying, blending, and molding defects, written by the people who run the lab. No sales pitch.

People came here this week because…

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…to solve your conveying problems

Angel hair · fines & dust · streamers

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…to solve your blending problems

Off-spec color · wrong ratio · layering

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…to solve your drying problems

Splay · brittle parts · voids

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…to solve your molding defects

Short shots · warpage · sink marks

The chain, two years in

Already own Novatec equipment?

Down now? We can help.

After the sale, the resin is still moving. Filters, desiccant, wear in the conveying line, a dryer that drifted back to being a timer — service is how the chain doesn’t break two years in.

Genuine parts and 24/7 U.S.-based support, fast. Talk to a real person — by phone, by chat, or through your local rep.

[Photo — genuine Novatec wear parts and desiccant]

Common questions

Questions we hear most.

Q · 01Can I buy just one dryer or one pump?

Absolutely. Most of what we sell is single equipment. Buy one unit or build a whole plant — same expertise either way.

Q · 02Not sure which model you need?

Tell us your resin, your throughput, and your process. We’ll point you to the right fit.

Q · 03Where is it built and supported?

Engineered, manufactured, and supported in the U.S.

Q · 04Can you integrate with equipment we already have?

Yes. We’re often brought in to work around what’s already on your floor.

Q · 05What if something fails?

One number, one team. No vendor-to-vendor finger-pointing.

Everybody else is looking at a share of your wallet.

We’re looking after your pellet.

See why plants switch to Novatec.