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 ...

Using old line drawings, history books and patents, employees at Glycon Corp. built eight scale-model screws for a display showing the history of extrusion screws, at the University of Massachusetts ...

In the plastics industry, twin screws are at the very heart of the extrusion process that transforms raw materials into rigid PVC pipe or profile. These highly engineered components are integral to ...

Top screw speed is the top motor speed divided by the reduction ratio, which is determined by the gear box and (sometimes) pulley sets. In most extruders it is somewhere around 100 rpm. One exception ...

Used for producing pasta, plastics, and more, extrusion is a widely used technique to combine and shape materials. Now, researchers report using twin-screw extrusion–where two solid reactants mix via ...

Guill Tool & Engineering Co. Inc., a provider of extrusion tooling, now offers the Unicam crosshead. The name derives from a ...

As new analytical technologies advance, insight into the twin-screw granulation process is growing. The range of applications for twin-screw extruders as pharmaceutical manufacturing equipment—either ...

Wet granulation is a size-enlargement process in which a liquid is used to achieve the agglomeration of solid particles. Agglomeration improves particles' tableting properties by rendering them ...