Twin-screw extruders Leistritz’s twin-screw extruders are modular and flexible, with models appropriate for continuous processing and a wide variety of applications, including masterbatch production, compounding, direct extrusion, and laboratory and pharmaceutical extrusion. For plastics processing, the company offers extruders capable of very high specific torque, up to 1.3 pound force- inch, and outer-diameter-to-inner-diameter ratios of 1.66-to-1.
What’s new? Updates to the Siemens PLC/HMI control hardware and code, available on all Leistritz extruders. At NPE, the company will show off some of the latest features on a ZSE-18 twin-screw extruder, designed for hourly throughputs ranging from about 1.1 pound to over 22 pounds.
Benefits Convenience and versatility. A wide range of configuration choices are available with Leistritz extruders. Depending on the exact specs chosen by users, Leistritz’s control systems are designed to be compact, rugged and easy to install. Data logging, diagnostics and other functions are available. The technologies from Siemens, Munich, can help save users time and effort in tailoring the operations of their extruders to their applications.
Leistritz Extrusion, Branchburg, N.J., 908-685-2333, https://extruders.leistritz.com/en/start
