Please visit: NFM Welding Engineers
Mailing Address:
577 Oberlin Rd. SW
Massillon,
OH
44647
US
Phone:
330-837-3868
Fax:
330-837-2230
NPE is typically a competitive display of the biggest, most dramatic equipment machine builders can muster.
Compounding news at the show includes several new ways to feed low-bulk-density materials faster for higher outputs with corotating twin screws.
A gearbox developed by Zambello Riduttori in Italy (U.S. office in Wayne, N.J.) is said to offer the world's highest torque for twin-screw compounding.
Compounding news at NPE included a wealth of new batch and continuous machines to mix in high loadings of wood flour, glass fiber, carbon black, and more exotic fillers.
Show exhibitors say long-fiber wood composites, direct extrusion/compounding, and reactive compounding are where the action is.
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.