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High-Output Side Feeder for Compounding

Unit is designed to match the requirements of feeding low bulk density fillers and materials in the compounding process.

Standardized Extruder Can Be Used Anywhere

Machine can be manufactured anywhere the customer is with the same specifications, design, support and goal to advance their materials.

Strategies for Solving Process Problems in Twin-Screw Compounding

When investigating compound quality defects or determining the root cause(s) of processing problems, look for spatial and/or temporal patterns to provide clues. The strategy to identify an assignable cause and cure is to first determine whether the problem is chronic or transient.

NPE Wrap-Up: News in Primary Machinery, Part 1

Rounding up details from the Big Show not previously reported in all our other coverage, here’s more news in injection and blow molding, extrusion and compounding. Next month, we’ll conclude with recycling/scrap reclaim, robots, tooling, auxiliary equipment, materials and additives.

Solve Venting Problems on Twin-Screw Compounding Extruders

Compounds must be free of voids and volatiles or else the material will cause subsequent processing problems. Here’s how to ensure your venting is effective.

EXTRUSION AND COMPOUNDING NPE: Flexibility, Speed and Quality

Extrusion processors need more—of everything—to compete. And suppliers responded in force in Orlando.

EXTRUSION AND COMPOUNDING AT NPE: The Word Is ‘More’

As in speed, power, quality, flexibility, layers, and efficiency. Those are the trends across all extrusion processes.

Compounding & Mixing at NPE 2003

Torque levels and output capacities of corotating twin-screw compounders coming to NPE are higher than ever.

In Twin-Screw Compounding, Distinguish Between ‘Disease’ and ‘Illness’

The concept of troubleshooting in compounding can be defined in terms of a problem (or problems) with compound quality or as a problem with the compounding process.

NPE 2009 Wrap-Up: New Machinery for Extrusion and Compounding

Extrusion machinery at the June NPE show in Chicago showed inventive ways to get more out of your floorspace and materials.

NPE News in Compounding

Compounding news at the show includes several new ways to feed low-bulk-density materials faster for higher outputs with corotating twin screws.

NPE 2006 News Wrap-Up: Compounding

Much of the compounding news at the NPE Show in Chicago in June ad-dressed the growing trend among extrusion processors to become compounders.

Torque & Speed How Much Is Enough?

You may be thinking of buying one of the new ‘high-torque/high-speed’ twin-screw compounders in order to raise your output without going to a larger machine. But how much torque or speed do you really need? Underusing a high-powered extruder wastes investment dollars. So look carefully at what is required for the materials you run.