At the 9th Wood Plastic Composite conference, a solid profile was produced during the first presentation of the new fiberex 114 parallel twin-screw extruder. The machine manufacturer and main sponsor ...

AIM3D GmbH (Rostock, Germany) is a spin-off company from the University of Rostock with the aim to drastically reduce the cost of the additive manufacturing (AM) of metal parts. In cooperation with ...

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 optimized component made of glass fiber-reinforced polyamide is represented here within the NX program with a weight-optimized lattice structure. Photo Credit, all images: Naddcon AIM3D GmbH ...

Extrusion is a process used for creating a product (an extrudate) by forcing a material through a die or an orifice to form a shape, or alternatively an extruder is used to produce semi-finished or ...

Editor?s note: The author, Donald E. De Laney, a consultant in polymer process rheology, worked with GE for 17 years and has worked with Dynisco over the past eight years. The plastics compounding and ...

Can wood-plastics composite production help turn wood waste into gold? More than a few wood processors might be wondering how or why some of their competitors have moved into "the plastics business." ...