Toll Manufacturing Division
LymTal International provides toll manufacturing of specialty polymers
and toll packaging of materials to customers who do not possess the
in-house manufacturing capabilities, or whose volume on certain products
would make in-house manufacturing uneconomical. Some highlights of
LymTal’s capabilities are:
- Technical staff with over 50 years experience in polymer technologies
- State of the art laboratory and manufacturing process equipment
- Highly experienced manufacturing personnel
- State of the art computerized inventory control, customer service and accounting systems to meet the customer’s specific needs
- Computerized label printing equipment
- 50,000 square foot manufacturing and warehousing facility (sprinkled)
- Toll packaging into all sizes of containers
- Commitment to safety, quality and environment
- Central location with easy access to major highways
- Total flexibility to adapt to your needs
Equipment Highlights
| Reactors: |
2 gallon stainless steal reactor (1) |
300 gallon (2) |
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13 gallon glass R&D reactor (1) |
1000 gallon (2) |
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100 gallon glass lined (1) |
2000 gallon (3) |
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175 gallon stainless steel (1) |
3000 gallon (1) |
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200 gallon (1) |
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| Reacting |
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| Vessels: |
120 GAL. Reaction Vessel - Stainless Steel (1) |
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55 GAL. Reaction Vessel - Stainless Steel (1) |
The reactors can handle products with a viscosity from 1,000 cps to 30,000 cps, and are supported with the following accessories:
- Vacuum system
- Heating up to 240°F
- Cooling down to 50°F
- Propeller type agitation
- Weight load cells
- KD grinding mill, diaphragm pump, 3 stage filtration system
- Variable speed mixing in the 300 gallon and 1,000 gallon reactors
- Inline homogenizers / dispersers
| Reactor/Mixers |
50 gal (1), |
500 gal (2), |
500 gal Nauta (1) |
The reactor/mixers can handle products with a wide range of viscosity from 1,000 cps to 1 million cps, and are equipped with the following:
- Vacuum system
- Heating up to 240°F
- Cooling down to 50°F
- Variable speed high sheer mixer
- Variable speed scraper mixer
- Change cans
- High pressure discharge system
- Inline homogenizers / dispersers
Mixers:
- Cowles disperser mixers (3)
- 1000 gallon mixers (3)
- 500 gallon reactor / mixer for high viscosity (3)
- 180 gallon mixers (2)
- 200 gallon change-can variable speed mixers (2)
- 50 gallon mixers (4)
- 200 gallon change-cans (2)
- 2 gallon Ross triple shaft reactor
Heating Ovens:
- 3 Production heating ovens, capacity to heat up to 500 °F, 12 drums at same time.
- 3 Lab heating ovens, capacity to heat up to 500 °F, 3 pails at same time
- 1 Heating cabinet, capacity to heat up to 140 °F, 24 drums at same time.
Packaging Polyclip foil pack sausage packaging machine
Tanks Bulk raw material and process tanks:
QC/R&D Our laboratories are equipped with the following:
- Visocsity measuring devices (Brookfield DVII and DVIII digital viscometers)
- 4 Cannon-Fenske viscosity tubes (approx 1-100 cST)
- Tensile / tear strength and elongation measurement (computerized)
- Moisture analyzer (Aquastar - C 2000, coulometric moisture titrators)
- Constant temperature water bath
- Weatherometer -Q-UV
- Vacuum chamber, vacuum oven, heating oven and 1000 °C mufel oven
- Elcometer pull-force tester (2)
- Pensky-Marten flash point apparatus
- Taber abrader
- Single point monitor for detecting TDI, IPDI and MDI's
- Portable contact and not contact temperature and humidity devices and portable chart records
- Certified and calbrated gauges: pressure gauge, vacuum gauge, weights, thermometers, durometers and tachometers used for testing and production equipment setup.
- Olympus UV-microscope
- Cleveland open cup flash point tester
- Oxygen monitor
Our laboratiories have the following capabilities:
- Lab scale R&D reactors
- % NCO and free diisocyanate titration
- Acid and epoxide value titrations
- Specific gravity determination and pH measurement
- Access to multinuclear NMR spectrometer at nearby Oakland University
- On-the-spot troubleshooting / analysis of various samples
- On-site calibration program to ensure all testing / wighing equipment is calibrated and re-certified on a regular basis
- Contracted scales and balances calibration service every 90 days
- Amine value titrations
- Flash point testing
- Abrasion resistance
- Physical property testing, such as: (Shore A, Tensile, Elogation & Tear Strength)
- Q-UV-B weathering
- Producing DI water
