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 ...

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The LCM-G series of pelletizing systems from Kobelco Stewart Bolling features gear pump mixing for efficient operation at high shearing rates. Twin-screw designs such as this are often found in ...

CTC Plastics — a maker of plastic materials and finished products — has added a new compounding line in Dayton, Ohio. The new line is a 92 millimeter, co-rotating twin-screw compounding machine, ...

Image credit: Thermo Fisher Scientific – Materials Characterization. The worldwide manufacture of lithium-ion batteries is set to soar due to the rising demand for electric vehicles and energy storage ...

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 ...

While single-screw extruders perform the lion’s share of recycling applications, twin-screw machines have a lot to offer recyclers—especially when the goal is a higher-value end product. Are ...