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Featuring full color RGB cameras with 0.14mm pixel resolution, a smart sensitivity system and integrated aspiration/dust collection system, the optical sorter can handle anything from seed sorting for the agriculture market to pellet sorting for the polymer resin market. 

Our optical sorting line has been placed in Ancos’ Darlington, SC facility where we also offer crystallization, blending, transloading, solid state polymerization (SSP) and drying services.

Have a sorting need?  Call Ancos to speak with our experienced Sales and Customer Service team to learn more about the services we provide.

With size reduction and devolatilization, Ancos enhances recycled materials to allow for a wider variety of end applications and uses from 3-D printing to food packaging.  Ancos has many methods for micronizing products that include jet milling, pin milling and cryogenic grinding.  This versatility allows us to hit the optimal particle size for a variety of polymers.  Ancos’ propriety process of devolatilization will target and eliminate harmful volatiles from post-consumer and post-industrial polymers.  Elimination of volatiles that cause smell in recycled plastics is one of many benefits our devolatilization process can achieve.

Solid State Polymerization (SSP) will increase the material strength and impact resistance of recycled plastics.  Solid Stating can also be used to adjust the melt viscosity of your material to hit the desired specification range for finished processing and molding. 

Billed on their website as “the focal point for the increasingly complex and international plastics recycling industry. The event, now in its 15th year, brings together plastics reclaimers, equipment manufacturers, brand owners, brokers, government officials and leading sustainability voices from around the globe to deepen connections and push the sector forward”, Ancos is confident the Plastics Recycling Conference and Trade Show is the right place to showcase our innovative solutions for recycled polymers. 

We invite you to visit us in Booth # 1002 to speak with our team of sales and engineering experts to learn more or you can submit your project here through our website. 

Chris Arnoldt was hired in July 2019 to lead the Sales, R&D and Marketing efforts of Ancos. Chris and his team will continue to develop Ancos’ sales processes, while deepening relationships with the existing customer base and developing new opportunities in nascent markets such as 3D printing, recycling/biodegradable polymers, and specialty packaging.  Chris joins Rice Industries from a leading engineer and contract manufacturer of saturated block copolymer sealants, coatings and adhesives.  Chris was Director of Business Development, leading the Sales and R&D teams.

E. Ben Hay, PhD was hired in November of 2019 as Lead Engineer.  Ben brings to Ancos a strong knowledge of chemistry and history of success in process and technology improvement. Ben’s focus will be on R&D project management to support customer needs and commercial growth. He will also be responsible for managing the Ancos engineering assets in the scale, process development and production efficiency of new and commercialized products.  

Valentin Alvarez has been part of Rice Industries for almost two years. He brings senior level P&L experience from Marmon Group, SPX, and GE. While Valentin has historically managed both of Ancos’ Disputanta and Darlington sites, in October, he became President of all of Rice’s contract manufacturing operations on a go-forward basis.

In support of Valentin, Shawn Sykora has been promoted to General Manager of Ancos’ Disputanta and Darlington facilities. Shawn leads Ancos’ day-to-day execution from an operations and customer service standpoint. Shawn has been with Ancos for almost two years as Operations and Compliance Manager of the Disputanta site. Shawn previously worked as an operations team leader at Advansix, a leading nylon 6 producer.

At our Darlington, SC facility where we provide solid state polymerization, crytallization, blending, optical sorting and drying services, we have added a new pump system that will allow us to process commodities that have excessive moisture levels.  We have also added a new optical sorter that is operating for both enhanced quality control and individual sorting project purposes.   

Ancos is an industry leader in material size reduction with both jet milling and cryogenic size reduction capabilities.  To keep up with the growing demand at our Disputanta, VA facility from our existing and new customers, we are excited to announce that we have acquired new cryogenic size reduction lines that will more than double our capacity.   

In addition to the new size reduction line, we increased our capabilities with dry powder handling with new machine modifications and dust collection systems.  Ancos is seeing powder handling volumes increasing and has enhanced powder capabilities in material handling, drying, blending and size reduction. 

It is our goal at Ancos to be our customer’s full-service provider for all their lab, R&D, pilot scale-up, material processing and handling needs.  With these new equipment and capacity investments we are demonstrating our commitment to achieving that goal.    

Expanding Ancos’ solid-stating capacity will increase our ability to serve customers while adding a second location with strategic geographic presence in South Carolina.  The Darlington assets are a best in class operation and are a great addition to Ancos’ processing expertise and high level of quality and service.

In addition to the installed Rotational Vacuum Dryers (RVDs), Ancos has also acquired a number of un-installed RVDs for future capacity growth.  Our expectation is to continue to invest in the Darlington location over time and supplement solid-stating with a full set of blending, material handling, cryogenic grinding and jet milling services.

Rice Industries is a leading toll service provider with companies focused on engineered plastics, chemical, pharmaceutical, and cosmetic sectors. Ancos (ancosusa.com) is a leading toll services provider to the engineered plastic market, and has locations in Disputanta, VA and Darlington, SC. Ancos offers solid-stating, crystallization, cryogenic grinding, blending, material handling, and other toll services exclusively to the engineered plastics space.

PolyQuest is a privately-held company headquartered in Wilmington, NC.  Established in 2000, its mission is to provide the most comprehensive, cost-competitive supply portfolio of virgin and recycled PET resins in North America.  It offers one of the broadest resin catalogs in the hemisphere, serving every major end application for PET including bottle, sheet, strapping, compounding, film and fiber.

For any questions, please contact Chris Nichols at 804-229-6164 or chrisnichols@ancos-usa.com.