Multiscrew
How to Configure Your Twin-Screw Extruder for Mixing: Part 5
Understand the differences between distributive and dispersive mixing, and how you can promote one or the other in your screw design.
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Strategically Manage Pressure to Help Ensure Quality in Co-Rotating Twin-Screw Extrusion
Pressure measurement provides an invaluable window into any extrusion process, but it must also be strategically managed at every stage of the process to ensure a quality part is being extruded.
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New Machines, Spare Parts and Auxiliaries for Compounding
NPE2024: ENTEK displaying a range of products at the May show.
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Equipment for Compounding, Reactive Extrusion, Devolatilization, Foaming and Direct Extrusion
NPE2024: Leistritz to focus on advances made via twin-screw extrusion.
Read MoreTwin-Screw Showcased in Circular Economy Demo
NPE2024: A KraussMaffei twin will upcycle pelletized blood vials, which will then be overmolded on another press to produce bottle openers.
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Configuring the Twin Screw Extruder: Part 4
For many compounding operations, material is fed to the extruder at the feed throat. This is the case when feeding a single polymer or a blend of polymers mixed with solid additives. Some ingredients, however, present a challenge in feeding. Here’s how to solve to them.
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Program Helps Compounders Configure Screw, Barrel Layout
New software from ENTEK is said to make it easier for compounders to design their own screw and barrel configurations.
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How to Configure Your Twin-Screw Extruder: Part 3
The melting mechanism in a twin-screw extruder is quite different from that of a single screw. Design of the melting section affects how the material is melted, as well as melt temperature and quality.
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How to Configure Your Twin-Screw Extruder -- Part 2
Follow these tips to configure your twin-screw elements to promote feeding and solids conveying.
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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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