Plastics
With LEWA Products Throughout the Production Process
LEWA empowers manufacturers in the plastics industry with a comprehensive range of pumps and custom-built systems designed to optimize every stage of production. We cater to various materials like polyethylene, polypropylene, polyurethane, and polyamide, offering specialized metering systems for compounding, catalyst handling, and even foaming agent applications.
Our expertise extends beyond just pumps. LEWA provides in-depth knowledge of compounding processes, ensuring the precise addition of waxes, flame retardants, and lubricants to achieve the desired material properties.
Optimizing Every Stage: LEWA's Pump Systems for Plastics Processing
Our team of experts stands ready to assist you throughout the process, offering valuable advice and collaborating with you to develop custom metering solutions tailored to your specific needs in the plastics industry. LEWA's renowned expertise, particularly in polyethylene processing, is valued worldwide. The following table provides a glimpse into the diverse applications LEWA's metering systems can address within the plastics processing industry.
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LEWA goes beyond pumps to become your partner in optimizing the entire plastics processing workflow. Our expertise empowers you in crucial stages like compounding, where we ensure precise metering of additives like flame retardants, lubricants, and more, using our advanced pump systems. This precise control allows you to achieve the desired material properties for your final product. LEWA's solutions extend to foaming agent metering for foam extrusion processes, providing a comprehensive range of tools to streamline your entire plastics production line.
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Solutions for Plastics Processing
The LEWA ecofoam system stands out as a reliable and modular metering solution specifically designed for physically foaming polyolefins, such as polyethylene. Trusted by leading manufacturers worldwide, ecofoam offers exceptional control and precision in metering, resulting in several key benefits for your plastics production:
Consistent High-Quality Products: Precise metering ensures your foamed plastics consistently meet the highest quality standards.
Reduced Scrap Rates: Minimize material waste with ecofoam's accurate control, leading to significant cost savings.
Advantages of the LEWA Pumps and Systems in the Plastics Industry
High end pumps, equipment and systems
We deliver high-end pumps integrated into complete systems and units for your specific applications. In doing so, we of course rely on the tried-and-tested LEWA quality.
Flexible application
High variability in operation in terms of pressure, temperature, flow rate and fluid properties with high metering accuracy guarantee a wide range of applications.
Tried and tested modular system
We design our systems and units in modular design with numerous engine and pump head combinations for different applications.
Special materials
On request, we can build systems with special materials such as Hastelloy, titanium, duplex stainless steel or further materials. If you are interested, please contact our product manager.
Heating and cooling devices
We respond flexibly to extreme requirements: Pump heads and the complete chemical pump can be equipped with a heating or cooling device, if necessary.
Patented sandwich diaphragm
Our patented diaphragm metering pumps use metal or PTFE sandwich diaphragms with Diaphragm Protection System (DPS) for maximum operational safety.
Easy to clean
An especially important advantage for pharmaceutical and food industry is that our systems can be quickly and easily cleaned with cleaning chemicals or hot steam.
Explosion protection
Safety comes first: LEWA supplies systems and units, also available with explosion-proof motors for safety of your employees.
International standards
LEWA pumps, systems and units are compliant with major international standards such as DVGW G280, WHG, PED, ISO 9001, ASME, ATEX and TA-Luft. Of course, you can also define your own standards.
