Compounding

sustainability

No-Dry Twin Screw Extruder Series Can Handle Multiple Resins

Machine can process a variety of virgin, postconsumer, postindustrial resins and flake without first having to crystallize, dry or change screws.  

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A Purge Solution for the Blow Molding and Compounding Industries

New commercial purge compounds for new industries from Chem-Trend.

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How This Custom Compounder Leverages AI to Drive Innovation, Sustainability

Alterra has stepped up its cutting-edge Industry 4.0 technology with its own AI platform to further increase its efficiencies.  

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Compounding

Mixer, New Pelletizer Facilitate Rigid PVC Compounding

Farrel Continuous Mixer and newly designed Dry Face Pelletizer combine to eliminate traditional finishing steps to make rigid PVC processing more efficient.  

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Compounding

Ross Reducing Prices on Batch High-Shear Mixers

Base prices of Series 100 and Series 500 Production Batch High Shear Mixers reduced by up to 40%.  

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Optimizing Melt-Fed Single-Screw Extruders on Compounding Lines

The main problem with melt-fed extruders that are starve-fed is setting the depth of the metering channel. In this scenario, we describe how this problem was solved.  

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Extrusion

Coperion Moves to Streamline US Operations

Machine builder is relocating Salina operation to existing facilities in Kansas, Wisconsin and Missouri.  

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Multiscrew

Understanding 'Boundary Conditions' in Twin-Screw Compounding

In twin-screw compounding, the objective is generally to produce the highest quality product at the maximum strand. But sometimes there are operating parameters that prevent this objective from being realized.  

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Geon Buys Medical Compounder Foster

Move intended to broaden GEON’s portfolio in the medical market.    

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Compounding

Dual-Shaft Mixer for Robust Industrial Mixing

Units are engineered for wide-ranging densities and viscosities up to several hundred thousand centipoise.  

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Blending & Dosing