Huntingdon overview
Preferred Compounding's Tennessee plant is dedicated to black
compounding. Huntingdon is between Memphis and Nashville and within five hours drive to
St. Louis, Missouri, Birmingham, Alabama, Little Rock, Arkansas, Lexington, Kentucky, Evansville, Indiana
and Jackson, Mississippi and six hours to Atlanta.
- Two black mixers
- Automated bulk carbon black handling system
- Full on-site quality control lab
Black compounding
F-270 Farrell Tangential 256 liter black mixer
- Variable speed three-zone temperature control with four-wing rotors and
three bulk oil ports
- 550 pound average batch size
- Auger black weightment systems
- Variable speed 84-inch drop and 84-inch strip mills
- Strip width capacity: 1.25 to 28 inches
- Fixed bar cooling line with metal detection
- Mesabi Mix Vision® process control
