Davis-Standard, LLC
Contact Information
Please visit: Davis-Standard, LLC
Mailing Address:
1 Extrusion Dr.
Pawcatuck,
CT
06379
US
Phone:
860-599-1010
Fax:
860-599-6258
A Special Message from Davis-Standard, LLC
Product Categories of Davis-Standard, LLC
- Air Rings and Internal Bubble Cooling Units
- Chillers
- Closed-loop Process Control Systems
- Coextrusion Dies, Feedblocks
- Cooling Towers
- Corona Treaters
- Extruder Screens, Screen Packs, Screen Changers, Breaker Plates, Other Melt-Filtration Equipment
- Extrusion Dies
- Film Take-off Systems
- Film, Sheet, Coated Web Thickness Measuring Equipment
- Foam Molds
- Monofilament/Multifilament Take-Off Systems
- Multiple-screw Extruders
- Pipe Corrugators
- Pipe Take-off Systems
- Pipe Thickness Measuring Equipment
- Plastic Lumber Extrusion/Molding Systems
- Profiles, Tubing, Wire Thickness Measuring Equipment
- Ram Extruders
- Scrap-reclaim Systems
- Sheet Take-off Systems
- Single-screw Extruders
- Structural Foam Machines (for Thermoplastics)
- Thermoformers
- Wire and Cable Take-off Systems
As seen in PT
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Studies Boost Prospects For High-Speed Extrusion
Study shows that high-speed, single-screw extruder can significantly boost the processing capability of a small-diameter machine for a wide range of applications
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Extrusion & Compounding at NPE: Advances Push Efficiency Envelope
Blown film towers may have been scarce, but there was no shortage of new technology aimed at helping to make extrusion processors more profitable.
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Extrusion & Compounding at NPE: More Output, More Flexibility, Less Energy
There won't be many blown-film lines running, but there is still much in the way of innovation going on in extrusion and compounding.
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New Barrel Heater/Cooler Saves ‘Juice' to Run an Extruder
New, patent-pending design is said to reduce both radiant and convection heat losses.
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Extrusion Vet Guthrie Supplies Recycling Equipment
Long-time extrusion industry executive Sandy Guthrie has started his own recycling equipment company.
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On Site: Growth Through Innovation in Medical Tubing
By focusing on high-tech, quick-turnaround, turnkey solutions, Putnam Plastics has grown into a leader in the field of medical extrusion.
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Compounding: New Torque Record Set At K '10
New twin from Coperion also pumps up output by 30%
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Smart Line Control Works with Smart Phones
Recent upgrades have equipped Davis-Standard's EPIC III extrusion supervisory control system with extensive remote-access capabilities, allowing multiple lines to be monitored via a computer or cell phone from any location.
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EXTRUSION & COMPOUNDING: Five-Layer Film Structures Set to Supplant Three Layers?
In blown film, equipment and material suppliers have come together to push five-layer technology into non-barrier applications previously held by three-layer films.
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It was the Fall of 2008.
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Tests Show Direct-Drive Extruders Are Quieter, More Energy Efficient
Green machines may be coming to extrusion.
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Extrusion at NPE 2003
NPE is typically a competitive display of the biggest, most dramatic equipment machine builders can muster.
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Entrepreneur Puts Mixed-Polymer Recycling On Track to Success
Polywood Inc. in Edison, N.J., uses mixed recycled plastics to make fiber-reinforced structural profiles for railroad ties, I-beams, and decks.
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Oversized Devolatilizer For Big Reclaim Extruder
The largest cascade reclaim extruder ever built in the Merritt line from Davis-Standard LLC in Pawcatuck, Conn., will be delivered this month to ABC Polymers Inc., a recycler in Stone Mountain, Ga.
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K 2007 Extrusion: Extrusion Outputs Go Through the Roof
Dramatic production demonstrations of cast and blown film set throughput records on the show floor in Dusseldorf.
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What's New at the Show in EXTRUSION
It’s all about higher speeds and higher outputs at this year’s “K” show in Germany.
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On Oct. 30, Chemtura Corp. (formerly Crompton), Middlebury, Conn., sold its majority interest in Davis-Standard LLC, Pawcatuck, Conn., to D-S management and private-equity firm Hamilton Robinson, Stamford, Conn.
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An unusual cascade extrusion line for reclaiming large volumes of low-bulk-density polyolefin waste comes from Davis-Standard Corp., Pawcatuck, Conn.
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NPE 2006 News Wrap-Up: Extrusion
NPE 2006 presented a bevy of features to make film, sheet, pipe, and profile extrusion more efficient.
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What to See at NPE 2006: Compounding and Mixing
Throughput capacities are going up for compounding equipment of all types.
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What to See at NPE 2006: Recycling and Scrap Reclaim
Recycling and reclamation are once again hot technologies—this time because of high resin prices.
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NPE 2006 News Flash
Injection MoldingSimplified Hot Runners Save Time & CostA new lower-cost hot-runner alternative to valve gating is suited to less critical cosmetic applications where users need predictable and reliable gate opening but not sequential gate operation.
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After Davis-Standard Corp. and Black Clawson Converting Machinery merged last year into Davis-Standard LLC, Pawcatuck, Conn., one of their first moves was to unify machine control software and hardware.
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Nine-Layer Blown Film: Why It's a Challenge, What It Takes to Succeed
Eight years after nine-layer blown films were first introduced, only a handful of processors have mastered the challenges of making them. Machine suppliers are now setting up lab lines that could make entry easier.
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Now It's Here: An Objective Test of Masterbatch Dispersion
There's a new grading system for color concentrates and additive masterbatches.
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MDO Films: Lots of Promise, Big Challenges
Machine-direction orientation is still discovering new market opportunities. But the technical difficulties are so great that some big projects never came of age. New equipment could make it easier.
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K 2004 Wrap-Up on Compounding: Quick Changes and Hybrids Add Versatility
New compounding technologies displayed at K 2004 included some unusual ways to broaden the range of products a twin-screw compounder can make.
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K 2004 Wrap-Up on Extrusion: Extruder Outputs Rise, Downstream Units Gain Flexibility
The show was packed with new equipment for pipe and profile, including extruders redesigned for higher outputs and/or lower cost, plus new ways to adjust die and calibrator diameters or switch dies and calibrators more quickly.
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Shhh ... Can You Hear the New Extruder Motors?
Silent, space-saving, energy-efficient, and high-torque, a new generation of ring-shaped motors is gaining a foothold in extrusion. A couple of hundred are already in use. Though most machine builders are reacting cautiously, adventurous processors are using them happily.
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K 2004 News Preview: Extrusion
At K 2004, at least a half-dozen European machine builders will show new direct-drive extruders running gearless—or nearly gearless—drives with substantially higher rpm and output rates than conventional extruders of the same size.
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Stretching Film's Limits
In the hyper-competitive stretch-film market, more layers often mean more market share. Moving from five layers to seven or nine can give an edge through higher performance or reduced cost.
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NPE 2000 News Wrap-Up: Extrusion
At this year’s NPE, new processes to put wood flour into plastic were virtually everywhere—several even start with undried flour.
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NPE Newsfinder: Compounding and Mixing
For the second straight NPE show, the focus in compounding is on twin-screw machines that deliver more speed and torque—thus more output—than ever before. No fewer than six suppliers of twin-screw compounders are showing such machines. There’s something to see in in-line systems as well. And there’s plenty of news in PVC mixers and pelletizing equipment, too.
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NPE Newsfinder: Extrusion
NPE will show higher outputs of practically everything, as advances in grooved feeds, servo drives, screw torque, mixing screws, dies, and downstream cooling, cutting, and handling make everything run faster.
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Strategies
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Winders: They're Pushing New Limits In Speed and Tension Control
New-generation winders for blown and cast film are winding bigger, better rolls at higher speeds and lower tension. They've gotten so fast that cast film lines can now realize their full productive potential.
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NPE News Wrap-Up: Extrusion
Gearless extrusion, cryogenic profile calibration, wireless data communications, and automatic start-up of blown film lines are just a few of the new ways to raise efficiency and output that were highlighted at NPE.
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Medical Tubing Coextrusion Brings A New Level of Care
Coextrusion is on the increase in tubing for medical uses, with more layers, more exotic materials, and much thinner walls. These require unprecedented levels of dimensional accuracy and flaw detection.
