Compounding
ENTEK Expanding in Machinery, Battery-Film Processing
Showcases new plant to support machinery business, announces plans to build bigger compounding extruder and lays out strategy to build two new battery-separator plants.
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Improving Twin-Screw Compounding of Reinforced Polyolefins
Compounders face a number of processing challenges when incorporating a high loading of low-bulk-density mineral filler into polyolefins. Here are some possible solutions.
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Dual-Shaft Mixers Are Versatile, Powerful
Mixer series reportedly powerful enough to batch dispersions, suspensions, and emulsions with viscosities up to several hundred thousand centipoise.
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The Path to Pellet Perfection
In underwater pelletizing, numerous variables in the equipment, process and material affect pellet shape, consistency and quality factors such as fines. Defining the “perfect” pellet depends on the conditions of end use, and achieving that ideal requires understanding of the causes of imperfections.
Read MoreNanopowder Screw Coating for High-Wear Applications
Coating option for tops of feedscrew flights also showcased.
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Advances in Dry-Cut Strand Pelletizing, Centrifugal Drying
At K 2022 in October, MAAG debuted three products for dry cut strand pelletizing and a new centrigual dryer for underwater pelletizing.
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Sustainability Among the Many Niches at Niche Polymer
Founded in 1987, Niche Polymer continues to grow—both organically and through acquisition—by focusing its product-development efforts on ever-changing market needs. Adding value to both industrial and post-consumer scrap is a growing part of this effort.
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Next-Generation Pelletizers
Bay Plastics Machinery Inc. (BPM) will be unveiling what it calls the next generation of pelletizing technology at K 2022 in Düsseldorf, Germany.
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High-Dispersion Rotor for Compact Processor
Billed as ideal for processing fiber grade, high color carbon black, and color concentrates.
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Green’s the Theme in Extrusion/Compounding
The drive toward circular economy is requiring processors to make more use of PCR. Machine builders at K—across all extrusion processes—will be highlighting innovations to help them do just that.
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