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 ...

This transparent view of a parallel twin-screw extruder illustrates the structure of the basic hardware that accomplishes compounding and end product extrusion in one step without subjecting the ...

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 ...

Planet Earth is spinning at a rate of 0.0007 rpm. Easy to calculate: One revolution per day, divided by 24 to get revs/hr and then by 60 to get revs/min = rpm. As for linear speed, it depends on where ...

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 ...

WESTERLY, R.I.—A new extruder manufacturer has been formed by several former employees of extrusion equipment major American Kuhne Inc. US Extruders Inc. is based in Westerly, about five miles from ...

The screw conveyor has an extensive history. Archimedes (ca. 212 BC) invented the first screw conveyor, and his design is still used today for irrigation and grain transfer. Screw conveyors became ...