Compounder Star Plastics has installed a new twin-screw extruder at its Ravenswood, WV, facility, the first phase of a more than $5 million investment in 2022 to support current and new customers. The ...

A drawing of the CMP shows a pair of gears with straight involute teeth rotating on melt-lubricated hydrodynamic bearings. Following 1.5 years of R&D, this manufacturer has come up with its own energy ...

A new research paper introduces a compact screw-based pellet extruder for high content feedstocks, and it could materially shift costs and throughput for polymer, metal and ceramic additive ...

German company Coperion has developed the ZSK FilCo filtration compounder, which allows filtration and compounding in a single production step, according to the company, offering higher product ...

Plastic Recycling Inc. (PRI), headquartered in Indianapolis, has invested $10 million to add two new state-of-the-art extruder systems and upgrade its laboratory equipment, allowing it to compound 200 ...

SKZ Plastics Center has upgraded its compounding and extrusion center in Würzburg, enhancing its services for the plastics ...

Lebanon, Ore. — Lebanon-based Entek Manufacturing Inc. will present new twin screw extrusion technology, wear parts and material handling equipment at Booth W3881 during NPE2024 to help compounders ...

New year, new engaging articles from Plastics Technology. Readers marked the start of 2026 by learning about everything from ...

With the installation of a new extraction system, the SKZ Plastics Center in Würzburg has successfully completed the ...

Established in 1883 and headquartered in the United States, CPM has leveraged its decades of experience and know-how to become a global leader in providing solutions for the extrusion and compounding ...

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 ...

It replaces the existing test center and serves to provide customers both the optimum system design for required throughput rate capacity of compounding lines – under close to production conditions – ...