Polymer Processing Institute

Extrusion Systems

  • Welex Seven Layer Coextrusion System with 10” and 34” wide sheet dies


  • Tandem Gas Injection Foam Line (34mm Liestritz followed by 40 mm Betol)

Gas Feeders

  • Air assisted Gas Booster

    • Resin Dryers

    • Whitlock Dryer-Conveyer


    • Conair D64 Hopper Dryer


    • Conair Franklin Hopper Dryer


    • Gemco Tumbler/Dryer

    Liquid Metering Feeders at Polymer Processing Institute

    • Milton Roy ConstaMetric III Metering Pump


    • Milton Roy MicroMetric Metering Pump


    • Lewa FCI Metering Pump


    • Normag Gear Pump

    Solid Metering Feeders

    • Acrison 150C Single Screw Solid Feeder


    • K-Tron S200 Single Screw Solid Feeder


    • K-Tron T20 Twin Screw Feeder


    • K-Tron K2V-T35 Twin Screw Feeder


    • Accurate Series 100 Solid Feeder


    • Accurate Series 300 Solid Feeder

    Data Acquisition and Control Systems

    • Camile 2000 data acquisition and control for IBM


    • Keithley Instruments M- Series Data Acquisition

    • Power and Energy Measurement System

    Twin Screw Extruders at Polymer Processing Institute

    • 15 mm APV Co-rotating, Intermeshing Twin Screw Extruder


    • 20 mm Welding Engineers Counter-rotating, Non-intermeshing Twin Screw Extruder


    • ZSK 30 W&P Co-rotating, Intermeshing Twin Screw Extruder


    • 30 mm Co-rotating Twin Screw Mixing Element Evaluator


    • 34 mm Counter-rotating, Intermeshing Twin Screw Mixing Element Evaluator


    • LSM34 Leistritz drive with 30 mm Single Screw Extruder Barrel and Screw, 34 mm
      Segmented Co-and Counter- rotating Intermeshing Twin Screw Extruder Barrel and Screw


    • Farrel Continuous Mixer (FCM 2)

    Single Screw Extruders

    • 3/4 ” Brabender Single Screw Extruder with: (a) Wire Coating Die; (b) Tube Die;
      (c) Sheet Die and 3- roll 8" Take-off System with Water Bath.


    • 3/4" Brabender Single Screw Extruder with 1" wide Slit Die


    • 1" Killion Single Screw Extruder


    • 1" MPM Single Screw Extruder with Melt Gear Pump and Fiber Spinerette Die


    • 1" Wayne Single Screw Extruder with Rod Die, Water Trough and Pelletizer


    • 40 mm Betol Single Screw Extruder (Cooling Extruder for Foaming)


    • 1.25" Killion Single Screw Extruder with Segmented Barrel and Segmented Screw (20 to 40 L/D), Rod Die


    • 1.25” Welex Single Screw Extruder (2)


    • 30 mm Single Screw Mixing Element Evaluator


    • 1.5" Sterling Single Screw Extruder Blown Film Line with a 4" dia. die


    • 2" Sterling Single Screw Extruder



    • 2.5” Welex Single Screw Extruder (2) followed by Gear Pump and Static Mixer




    For more information, please contact:

    Dr. Linzie Zhu
    (973) 596-3214
    lzhu@polymers-ppi.org