Foster Corp.'s direct-extrusion process reduces heat and shear history in the manufacture of combination products, improving the stability of both the polymer and the drug. Traditionally, combination ...

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 ...

Editor?s note: Charlie Martin is general manager at American Leistritz Extruder Corp., Somerville, NJ. Twin-screw extruders have been used for many years to compound all types of fibers into plastics ...

Aluminum is particularly well suited to the extrusion process due to its excellent plasticity at extrusion temperature. Only a minor degree of work-hardening takes place at this temperature and ...

At an industry seminar hosted by Leistritz Extrusion, experts explained the use of extrusion equipment to mix polymeric excipients with APIs for solubility enhancement and for multifunctional and ...

As global demand for efficient, precise, and increasingly versatile plastic processing continues to expand, extrusion machinery has become an important part of manufacturing infrastructure across ...

Hot melt extrusion (HME) formulation development depends heavily on choosing the appropriate polymers. This article reviews HME process parameters and highlights three polymers in HME: polyethylene ...

Extruded products constitute more than 50 % of the market for aluminium products in Europe of which the building industry consumes the majority. Aluminium extrusions are used in commercial and ...