Continuous manufacturing has the potential to offer benefits in terms of reduced costs, footprint, raw material consumption, and byproduct and emission generation combined with increased process ...

Continuous extrusion is unique in both the feedstocks it can process and products that it can create. By consolidating granular feedstocks, such as out-of-spec additive manufacturing powders or ...

Leistritz has added a continuous twin screw extrusion system that continuously mixes and conditions gel-mass formulations designed to replace previous upstream batch processing methodologies.

BWE’s new SheathEx process is an extension of its Conform and Conklad continuous extrusion technology. The SheathEx machine extrudes a continuous and seamless aluminium tube (max. diameter 165mm) from ...

Editor?s note: The author, Donald E. De Laney, a consultant in polymer process rheology, worked with GE for 17 years and has worked with Dynisco over the past eight years. The plastics compounding and ...

The core of the 36-meter extrusion line is a 19-meter salt bath. At the start of the production line, two mobile extruders run on specially installed rails as needed. This allows for a quick ...

The hot melt extrusion (HME) process can be employed in the production of a wide range of pharmaceutical dosage forms, including capsules, tablets, lozenges and implants. HME is suitable for both ...

DÜSSELDORF, GERMANY (Dec. 13, 10 a.m. EST) — Engel Holding GmbH's K 2007 exhibit debuted the e-Max, an all-electric injection molding machine priced lower than its current E-motion. The firm also ...

In this month's Best Practices, we turn to extrusion process control — with a side trip to “the cloud.” Oden Technologies Inc., a new supplier of process monitoring and data integration systems, has ...