Micron+ ECO: The smallest environmental footprint for automated applications

Sustainability and the 2030 Agenda are obligations for all companies looking to the future. How to save energy? or how to reduce the use of raw materials? are the key questions to improve production processes. We all have a role to play, so Meler has focused its innovation on creating a hot melt fuser that reduces the environmental footprint of the most demanding production in the packaging industry.

Micron+ ECO: The hot melt melter with the smallest environmental footprint on the market for automated applications

Great goals forge great unions, and today there is no greater end than safeguarding our planet’s natural resources. In 2015, the UN approved the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and Meler has made a clear commitment to one of the 17 goals set: Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns (goal 12).

As a specialist in the application of industrial adhesives, Meler has created a hot melt glue fuser that meets the environmental challenges of the industry and offers:

• Lower energy consumption
• Greater adhesive savings
• Minimal environmental impact

Efficiency: How to increase performance with lower consumption?

That is the question that Meler’s R&D team asked in the early stages of development. The answer was as follows: minimizing the consumption of both energy and adhesive with a simple strategy, ensuring that every watt and every drop of adhesive is in the right place. The Meler team has worked, on the one hand, on the thermal management of Micron+ ECO and, on the other, on the total control of adhesive dosing.

Thermal optimization: every watt turns into heat

To ensure that every watt of energy is transformed into effective performance and not wasted heat a new cylindrical tank with a capacity of 500g has been designed to promote thermal homogeneity and prevent adhesive degradation.

Micron+ ECO has a tank with 54% less metallic material (compared to other types of tanks) and up to 63% more insulating capacity. Both characteristics drastically reduce conduction and convection processes, responsible for the main heat losses, as well as emissions to the environment.

Thanks to its new components and increased equipment insulation, tests show that the energy consumed to melt, maintain, and pump the adhesive is minimized, resulting in a significant reduction in the electricity bill.

Total control of adhesive application: optimize every drop of hot melt

Another decisive factor for achieving savings is the optimization of adhesive application through the use of patterns. These patterns can be configured with total freedom, by time, distance, or based on a determined % of savings, so that the pattern automatically adapts to apply only the necessary amount of adhesive to the product. Micron+ ECO can help you choose the best place for each drop of adhesive.

Manufacture without pause

Micron+ ECO is designed to work with minimal amounts of adhesive in the tank, but it can adapt to the most demanding productions thanks to its highly sensitive granule loader that automates adhesive loading, ensuring process stability and continuity throughout the workday.

Its easy maintenance and ease of cleaning tasks make Micron+ ECO a simple and durable work tool. Meler has designed this new fuser with highly competitive components to achieve guaranteed industrial robustness.

Pioneers in industrial sustainability

Micron+ ECO maintains the characteristics of Micron+ technology that marked an industrial milestone in terms of efficiency more than ten years ago: energy optimization, connectivity, and total accessibility.

Now, Micron+ ECO also offers a significant reduction in emissions, ensuring both profitability and environmental responsibility in any production of industry 4.0. Because the industry has to offer the products that the market demands but also those that the world needs.