The screw conveyor has an extensive history. Archimedes (ca. 212 BC) invented the first screw conveyor, and his design is still used today for irrigation and grain transfer. Screw conveyors became ...

CTC Plastics — a maker of plastic materials and finished products — has added a new compounding line in Dayton, Ohio. The new line is a 92 millimeter, co-rotating twin-screw compounding machine, ...

This content was paid for by an advertiser and created by Crain's Custom Content. In the ever-evolving world of plastics processing, staying ahead of the curve requires more than just experience—it ...

This transparent view of a parallel twin-screw extruder illustrates the structure of the basic hardware that accomplishes compounding and end product extrusion in one step without subjecting the ...

Image credit: Thermo Fisher Scientific – Materials Characterization. The worldwide manufacture of lithium-ion batteries is set to soar due to the rising demand for electric vehicles and energy storage ...

A twin-screw control system (TSCS) for extrusion compounding systems incorporates recipe management into the software and is said to allow the operator to recall and store specific product setpoints.

Perform material- and labor-effective extrusion with Thermo Scientific™ Pharma 11 Twin-screw Extruder, which requires only a small amount of active pharmaceutical ingredient, operating at throughput ...

Ultra-Poly Corp. was founded by Alan LaFiura in 1974 to provide toll processing of low-density polyethylene (LDPE) film scrap and has evolved over the last five decades into a custom compounder of ...

While single-screw extruders perform the lion’s share of recycling applications, twin-screw machines have a lot to offer recyclers—especially when the goal is a higher-value end product. Are ...

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