Textile Polymer Extrusion Room
This laboratory is a specialised room for the compounding and extrusion of melt polymers.
Polymer Blending Equipment
- Wayne Yellow Jacket 19mm twin screw blending line
- 26:1 length to diameter ration
- gravimetric polymer and powder feed
- volumetric liquid feed
- powder addition via a twin screw side feeder
- adjustable chip length and diameter
- 0.5 - 10 kg/hr production rate(polymer dependent)
- minimum batch size 200 grams
- SDL Atlas Maxwell mixing extruder
- 10 - 100 g/hr production rate (polymer dependent)
- minimum batch size 5 grams
- single and multifilament extrusion dies
- produces partially orientated filaments
Filament Extrusion Equipment
- Wayne Yellow Jacket 19mm single screw extrusion line
- 20:1 length to diameter ratio
- 50 - 1000 g/hr production rate (polymer dependent)
- minimum batch size 50 grams
- produces partially and fully orientated filaments
- SDL Atlas Maxwell mixing extruder (see blending)
