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Dr. Joseph Scuralli, former president of Wayne Machine & Die Co., Totawa, N.J. has formed his own sales representative firm,  LLC, which specializes in plastic, silicone and rubber extrusion equipment. The company will also represent ancillary products, control systems, technology, services and aftermarket parts.

Scuralli served as president of Wayne Machine from 1985 through 2009, when it was sold to Steer World, manufacturers of twin-screw compounding machinery. Among other things, Wayne Machine supplied the well-known Yellow Jacket line of single-screw extruders for laboratory and production applications. Following the sale, Scuralli left the industry and worked in various positions in academia, including a 17-year stint at Berkeley College in New York. For the last 21 years, he has also served as a councilman for the Township of Wayne, New Jersey. Scuralli earned his doctorate degree in international ´óÏó´«Ã½ and marketing in 1996 from Pace University, Lubin School of Business.

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In a statement, Scuralli says his new company is dedicated to providing a comprehensive range of products. This portfolio encompasses large, midsized and small production extrusion lines, and pilot and laboratory-scale equipment.

Leveraging his extensive experience in extruder screw manufacturing and building extrusion lines for various processes, Scuralli says he aims to offer equipment solutions featuring single and twin-screw technology in film, sheet, compounding, wire insulation, high-temperature, fluorocarbon, profiles, devolatilization, monofilament, medical and industrial tubing, and specialty applications.

He notes, “After visiting NPE2024, I became quite bullish on the prospects for the plastics industry. Etrudamerica LLC is committed to playing a significant role in the industrial renaissance the extrusion sector of the plastics industry is poised to realize.”

Scuralli adds, “We are actively seeking to add new equipment and service supplier partners, and are excited to make a major announcement about our first agency agreement in the coming days.”