Consulting
Alexander D. (Sandy) Guthrie
ADG Solutions Process Consulting brings you over 35 years of widely utilized extrusion expertise serving recyclers in both the post-consumer and industrial markets. Whether you are planning a new plant or expanding current capacity, we can help you define and control project costs, viability, hardware selection, installation, etc.
As the founder and former owner of Merritt Davis (now a part of Davis-Standard), ADG Solutions knows what it takes to design, produce and execute highly efficient and profit-generating plastics processing systems. Applications expertise includes:
Venture consulting
- Evaluating product and corporate strengths, inventory, market positions, manufacturing techniques, etc…
Greenfield consulting
- Plant layouts
- Project costs and viability
Post-consumer and Industrial separation and reclaim consulting
- Plastics film and sheet
- Highly contaminated polymer filtration
- PET bottle and sheet
Primary process consulting
- Cast Film systems
- Blown Film systems
- Sheet systems
- Pipe, tube & profile systems
- Wire & cable systems
- Compounding systems
- Fiber systems
ADG Solutions maintains high-level, up-to-date expertise in projects of all types and magnitude with a principal focus in the following areas:
- Component selection upgrades or additions to pre-existing systems
- New materials and process application assistance
- Operator training
- Control system upgrades to maximize efficiency and reduce waste
- Factory floor studies to improve production efficiency and overall productivity
- Reverse engineering of unavailable components and spare parts
- Used equipment evaluation and brokerage
- Scrap material evaluation and brokerage