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 ...

Editor?s note: Chris Rauwendaal is a designer, consultant, and seminar instructor who has written extensively on process engineering and extrusion topics. Part 1 of this article (PM&A Nov./Dec. 2002) ...

Cup Acquisition LLC, which does business as Custom Profile, is expanding its Juarez, Mexico, operation following steady growth of its extrusion and in-line fabrication business serving the home ...

Increasingly smaller medical devices require tighter tolerances that make extrusion process control more difficult. Photos courtesy of TEEL PLASTICS INC. As medical devices get smaller and tolerances ...

Angel investors understand the high stakes of funding new technologies. The journey is fraught with financial, technical and market risks—but when a groundbreaking well-designed innovation meets the ...

New twin-screw extrusion methods accelerate plastic recycling, allowing for efficient mixing, degassing, and waste materials handling.

Custom Profile Inc. is buying the plastics profile extrusion business of Bemis Manufacturing Co. and opening a new plant to house the additional business. Walker, Mich.-based Custom Profile expects ...