Orbetron, Technovel Form Strategic Partnership
Feeding specialist and extrusion builder align to market and sell each other’s offerings.
Feeding specialist Orbetron and Japan’s Technovel, which makes lab and production-sized single- and twin-screw extruders, have reached a sales agreement giving the companies the right to represent each other’s product lines in their respective countries.
Orbetron was founded in 2011 to fill a niche in building highly-customized, low-rate feeders (down to 1 g/hr) for compounding and other extrusion processes. The company offers screw-type feeders, disc feeders, batch blenders and systems for feeding materials in liquid form.
Technovel co-rotating twin-screw extruders are used in compounding. It also has a line of counter-rotating twins for PVC processing, along with single screws for film/sheet and pipe/profile/tubing. Among its twin-screw lab extruders is a 6-mm machine the company says is the smallest in the world.
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