• The ZSE-40 MAXX co-rotating twin-screw extruder, which is for color concentrates and small lot production. It features a modular design and an LSA swing gate strand die.

Image Credit: Thermo Fisher Scientific What is a screw extruder, and how does it work? The screw extruder is a device consisting of one or more Archimedes’ screws that rotate in a cylindrical barrel.

Another speaker, Kevin Slusarz of U.S. Extruders, will give a presentation on the materials of construction for screws and barrels for different polymer environments.

Figure 1: (a) Schematic drawing of a twin-screw extruder process for wet granulation. (b) Barrel arrangement and twin-screw profile. TSE processes for pharmaceutical applications are not very well ...

The compact design enables easy cleaning and saves laboratory space. Features of the Process 16 Parallel Twin-Screw Extruder are given below: Throughput range is 0.4 kg/hour to 20 kg/hour (based on ...

The screw geometry has been further optimized, so that increases in output of up to 10% have now become possible in both pipe and profile extrusion (for pipes up to 550 kg/h, for profiles up to 280 kg ...

Twin-screw extrusion, a continuous mixing process, is gaining acceptance for producing solid-dosage drugs as developers deepen their understanding of how the process can be applied in pharmaceutical ...

Steer World’s high-precision elements, barrels and shafts; end-to-end support for design, integration and implementation; what the company claims are industry-leading lead times for delivery and ...