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If you're shopping for materials- handling, drying, blending, and feeding auxiliary equipment, a new app for smart phones and tablets can let you turn 3D images of the hardware around 360° and even examine interior components or material flow through the system. The new Maguire 5D app from Maguire Products, Inc. and affiliate Riverdale Global, both of Aston, Pa., is down- loadable from Apple and Android stores or from the Maguire website. The app is activated by images on the Maguire web page or special images in print advertisements. The first products viewable with the app include blenders and controls, vacuum dryers, and Riverdale liquid-color pumps. 888-459-2412 • maguire.com; 610-358-2900 • riverdaleglobal.com Improved Electronic Flowmeter for Cooling Water New vortex-shedding sensor technology is one of the improvements in the new Tracer VM flow- meter with user interface from Burger & Brown Engineering, Inc., Grandview, Mo. Vortex-shedding technology is said to increase reliability because the flow sensors are less vulnerable to dirty cooling water. The new version of the Tracer has a bright color LCD display that's easy to read in low light, and optional remote mounting of the user interface. A new volume totalizing function that can be set to display from a selected point helps with water-resource budgeting. 816-878-6675 • smartflow-usa.com 3D Imaging App Is New Aid To Shopping for Equipment AUXILIARIES TOOLING HEATING/COOLING Two new entries from IMS Company, Chagrin Falls, Ohio, are a line of economical bronze sprue-puller tools and a line of metal cleaning/ polishing compounds. The bronze, 10-piece sprue-puller tools report- edly remain rigid and prevent sloppiness and joint weakening as they wear, said to be two major problems of competing brass tools. The tools have non-slip grips and three of them come in two sizes (6 and 8 in.) for convenient use by men and women. In addition, IMS has become a distributor of Autosol metal- and mold-care products from Germany. These pastes and polishes remove plastic buildup, dirt, rust, stains, and oxidation from aluminum, copper, brass, ferrous metals, and even glass. They can be rubbed on with a cloth and buffed off to leave a clean, gleaming finish. There's even a special polish for chrome-plated molds. 888-288-6900 • imscompany.com Economical Sprue Pullers And Metal Polish Debut @plastechmag 71 Plastics Technology N E W P R O D U C T S F O R P L A S T I C S P R O C E S S I N G