The Rubber Division is offering seven valuable training opportunities, most of them delivered as convenient webinars which ...

BARBERTON, Ohio—Akron Rubber Development Laboratory Inc. has moved its mixing and compounding services to the company's Barberton campus, adding an injection molding and extrusion line in the process ...

0ver the past decade the rubber industry has faced an ever increasing demand for improved product performance, in terms of function, the severity of the service environment, and the service life. This ...

FULDA, Germany—When Peter Uth and his brother-in-law Winfried Schutz founded Uth Machinery GmbH in Fulda in 1985, they never dreamed they'd become experts in providing solutions for fine-mesh ...

Custom rubber compounder Preferred Compounding has expanded its product portfolio and capabilities with the bolt-on acquisition of Akron compounder Valley Rubber Mixing. Terms of the deal were not ...

A twin-screw extruder can be used as a continuous wet granulator or as a continuous mixer for a wet gelatin mass. Twin-screw extruders, which have found commercial use in making amorphous ...

In the world of manufacturing and processing, extruders are among the most versatile and essential pieces of equipment. These machines shape and form a wide variety of materials, from plastics and ...

A new technical conference dedicated exclusively to the science and optimization of extrusion processing will debut this summer as the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE) Extrusion Division launches ...

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 ...

The author describes the benefits, processes, and practicality of using hot-melt extrusion to mix active pharmaceutical ingredients with pharmaceutical-grade polymers. Extrusion technology is a highly ...