Solve Defects

Splay, Brittleness, & Inconsistent Quality Are Almost Always a Moisture Problem.

Not moisture you can see. Moisture trapped deep inside the pellet that the drying process never fully removed.
When wet resin hits a hot barrel, that trapped moisture vaporizes and shows up as splay, brittleness, weakened parts, or inconsistent melt behavior you can’t explain.
Understanding why that happens is the first step to making it stop.

Why Moisture is the Culprit

You Thought You Dried Your Resin.
But Did Every Pellet Actually Get Dry?

Hygroscopic resins – nylon, polycarbonate, ABS, PET – actively absorb moisture deep inside the pellet, not just on the surface.
Driving that internal moisture out requires sustained heat throughout the entire pellet, maintained long enough for moisture to migrate to the surface and be carried away.
When that doesn’t happen, the dryer looks like it’s working – but the resin arriving at your machine isn’t fully dry.

The Part Your Dryer Isn’t Telling You

Most Dryers Aren’t Delivering What You Think They Are

Desiccant degrades silently…performance drops gradually, dew points drift, and there’s no alarm, no indicator, nothing to tell your it’s happening.
Many single-flow hoppers leave the upper resin bed cold. Heated air loses heat as it rises through the resin bed. Pellets in the upper half never reach the temperature needed to drive out internal moisture.
Those pellets look dry. They’re not. And the machine finds out what the dryer missed.

What Proper Drying Actually Looks Like

The Dryer and the Hopper Have to Work Together.

A properly engineered drying system delivers a consistent, guaranteed dew point every single day…not just at startup, not just when conditions are ideal, but continuously regardless of equipment age or ambient humidity.
A proper dryer eliminates the cold upper hopper entirely, keeping the entire resin bed hot, dry, & actively drying at every level so every pellet exits at the same moisture content and the same temperature.
The consistency is what produces consistent melt behavior, consistent injection pressures, & consistent quality at the machine. Every run.

The Novatec Solution

Two Dryers. Engineering to Solve This. One is Right for Your Operation.

NovaDrier – Up to 100 lbs/hr

The world’s only Desiccating Cartridge Dryer.
Built around a Lifetime Desiccating Cartridge that never degrades & never sheds desiccant dust, and patented Dual Drying Zones that eliminate the cold upper hopper problem permanently. No loose desiccant.
No blowers. No moving parts. Two filter changes per year.

NovaWheel – Up to 5,000 lbs/hr

The industry’s most advanced desiccant wheel dryer.
Built around a molecular sieve zeolite desiccant honeycomb impregnated directly on the wheel, delivering continuous ultra-low dew point with no bead degradation, no desiccant dust, and up to 15 years of wheel life.
Intelligent Regeneration technology adjusts energy use in real time.