Replace Your Old Rubber Granulator with a Bonnot Rubber Bale Feeder

The Drawbacks of Rubber Bale Granulators

As we mentioned, the rubber granulator machine is a one trick pony — it resizes rubber bales into more workable chunks. However, these broken-down chunks of rubber will still require additional processing before they can be delivered to the next step. Harsh chemical agents like talc are also needed to prevent the material from clumping while the rubber granulator breaks it down. The addition of these chemicals can cause environmental problems within the facility, which create a work hazard for employees and an overall degraded product.

Replacing a rubber granulator with a Bonnot Rubber Bale Feeder means you can remove several steps from the resizing process, reducing costs and limiting the possibility of impurities or user error interfering with your product output. Our rubber bale feeders feed full-size rubber bales directly into a downstream compounding extruder. The output rate, temperature and speed can be tightly controlled (+/- <1%) and precisely configured for the next step in the process. All of this can be accomplished without the addition of chemical agents and dusting, eliminating the environmental and safety concerns presented by rubber bale granulators.

The Bonnot Rubber Bale Feeder is available in multiple sizes and has recently been redesigned to include all the latest technological advancements in the industry. Rest assured that this redesign did not abandon the tried-and-tested feeder concept that has been used for decades, but instead improved the model overall. Our rubber bale feeders are currently in use at many of the world’s largest rubber processing companies. Check out the video below to see one of our rubber bale feeders in action!