In the plastics industry, twin screws are at the very heart of the extrusion process that transforms raw materials into rigid PVC pipe or profile. These highly engineered components are integral to ...

Is extruded aluminum gaining traction as a mainstream OEM choice for designing, engineering, and producing component parts? Plotting progress along a standard change-management trajectory shows the ...

Medical tubing used in minimally invasive devices has become increasingly sophisticated. Today’s cutting-edge devices are reaching more remote regions of the human anatomy and are used to perform ...

WAUCONDA, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Aluminum Extruders Council (AEC) and its research and education organization, the ET Foundation, have released the Call for Entries for the 2025 Student Aluminum ...

Guill Tool & Engineering has developed a reciprocal tubing die design. Unique features eliminate the need to weld or otherwise join sections with different profiles together. Traditional tip-and-die ...

Guill Tool, an extrusion tooling company, has expanded its lab capabilities to better serve the global extrusion market with the creation of Guill Labs. The labs include the company’s state-of-the-art ...

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) ...

Continuous manufacturing of amorphous solid dispersions in a twin-screw extruder is well-suited to quality by design processes such as defining design space. The continuous process of hot-melt ...

WAUCONDA, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The ET Foundation and the Aluminum Extruders Council (AEC) have announced the Call for Abstracts for ET '27, the Fourteenth International Aluminum Extrusion Technology ...

Today’s sophisticated catheters have become modern marvels of advanced design and polymer technology. These devices are used to perform an ever-increasing number of the minimally invasive surgeries ...

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 ...