Material Processing Lab

FORMULATION DEVELOPMENT

Leistritiz Twin Screw Extruder

ZSE27MX-48D

Has 2 screws with many different screw elements for different screw arrangements, and different dye sizes, 12 zones for heating control at every section of screws. Max Temp= 350C, Max

FORMULATION DEVELOPMENT

Shear Bay Pelletizer BT25

Able to chop the extrudate into pellets. Can adjust speed which will control size of pellets formed

FORMULATION DEVELOPMENT

Kawaguchi Injection Molder KM50

Able to melt plastic pellets and press into mould. We have flat plaque moulds and ASTM test specimen moulds

FORMULATION DEVELOPMENT

Xplore Micro Compounder MC15

Small scale (~15 gm) compounding, twin screw.

FORMULATION DEVELOPMENT

Xplore Micro Injection Moulder IM12

Able to make a single sample specimen (Type IV tensile bar)

FORMULATION DEVELOPMENT

Nelmor Grinder

ACan grind rubbers and plastics to various screen sizes

FORMULATION DEVELOPMENT

PHI Hot/Cold Press

Can heat and press the material with control of temperature, pressure, and time

FORMULATION DEVELOPMENT

Leistritz 3 Roll Film Sheet Take Off

Can make sheets out of extruded products

FORMULATION DEVELOPMENT

Precision Mechanical Convection Oven

Keep samples and mould formualtion under controlled temperature

FORMULATION DEVELOPMENT

Tenney Environmental Environmental Chamber

Wide range of temperature (-70 to +180C) and relative humidity (20 to 95%)

FORMULATION DEVELOPMENT

LFA V-Mixer VML15

Automated mixing of plastics pellets, powders.

MATERIAL TESTING

Atlas Weather-Ometer Ci3000+

Materials stability testing under controlled temperature, humidity, and light (UV, Vis)

MATERIAL TESTING

Tinius Olsen Melt Flow Indexer MP-993

Measures the flow behavior of plastics and resins at melting state