Hercules^®

Welex^® Sheet Extrusion

Efficient sheet extrusion for thick gauge applications with flexible design and modular construction, customizable to your application.

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Hercules Sheet Extrusion System

Our Graham Engineering Welex Hercules Sheet Extrusion System is filled with standard features and a highly efficient and flexible design that can accommodate up to nine extruders ranging in size. It also includes a quick roll change, auto gap control, movable auxiliary cooling rolls, and air and water cooling stations to fulfill your project needs.

FEATURES

15-inch XSL Navigator control system
Sheet widths from 48 to 130 inches
Sheet gauge from .03 to .5 inches
Monolayer or co-extrusion
Throughputs to 10,000 pounds per hour
Flexible and customized roll stand
Hydraulic, pneumatic, and boosted pneumatic roll nip systems

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Graham Engineering Hercules Sheet Extrusion System

Owners of the Welex Brand

Our Welex brand brings state-of-the-art equipment that can meet your thick gauge sheeting needs with quality and performance unmatched by competitors. It’s available in a downstack configuration and ready to suit your specific application with mounted components selected for your job.

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The Hercules Sheet Extrusion Difference

Your Hercules Sheet Extrusions System will include not only a personalized combination of mounted components and extruders, but you will have an operator panel that is exclusive to Welex.

This 15-inch touchscreen has an integrated recipe manager for customization, password security to keep your information confidential, and alarm history reports to keep a record of everything that happens during the production process.

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SPECS

Automatic height adjustment
Precision controlled linear positioning
Electronically-controlled gap adjustment
Linked to hydraulic roll gap system

OPTIONS

Monolayer or co-extrusion
Downstream and finishing options
Upstack configuration
Extruder range sizes 1.5 to 10 inches
Mounted components choices to suit needs

Example Applications

High Quality Products

Engineered with Precision

Maximize the throughput and quality of your desired end product by including stations like air or water bath cooling, IR heating, corona treating, slitting, shearing, and lamination.

High Efficiency

Remains Maintenance Friendly

Your Hercules includes automatic functions that are crucial for quality production like height adjustment, linear positioning, and gap adjustment to get every product just right.

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Personalized Installation

The Welex gives you the power to select screen changers, melt pumps, mixers, co-extrusion feed blocks, and dies for mounting and configuration to match your product specs.

XSL Navigator^®

Ultimate Control

The XSL Navigator is created for effortless operation: it’s easy for operators to set up and work easily with the machine. The XSL Navigator enables processors to integrate data from a machine or line to an ERP system using client-server architecture.

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