Extrusion, Coating, Lamination from Laboratory to Industrial Production with Graphene in Polymers Giovanni A. della Rossa - Innovation & IP Costruzioni Meccaniche Luigi Bandera S.p.A. - Corso Sempione, 120 - I-21052 Busto Arsizio (VA) - Italy @extrusion_EA - Extrusion Intelligence luigibandera.com - +39 0331 398 301 - gadr@lbandera.com -
Co-rotating twin-screw extruders
Laboratory lines
Co-rotating twin-screw extruders are used in many branches of R&D and Industry, such as Plastic, Rubber, Food, Chemistry for producing, preparing and processing (High Viscous Materials). Modular configurations - easily designed innovative geometries - flexible adaptation - different tasks and material properties Highly effective treatment - continuous way - different products - replacing discontinuous technologies
The House of Extrusion
• 0.1 - 4.0
• mixing
• 5.0 - 50
• compounding
• 50 - 300
treat/produce kg/h depending on the screws dimension and material
• shearing
Once the compound and/or product from EA Extrusion Academy laboratory have been tested, it can be scaled up to Industrial Production 300 3000+ kg/h in The House of Extrusion .
• extrusion • coating • lamination • foaming
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Extrusion technologies with several lines in Flat Die, Blown Film and Flakes purification.
all-in-one
filament (i.e. 3D printing)
• polymerisation
film
• elongation flow
powder
• pressure build-up
• bio polymers • barrier materials • extrudable polymers • circular economy • packaging • converting
continuous shape
Lamination and Coating
• versatility
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Lamination/Coating
• high adhesion • high transparency • multi-layer combination
Lines equipped with IoE Internet of Extrusion solutions in Industry 4.0 - Smart Factory integration. For smart factory solutions: predictive maintenance, Big Data, AI, VR/AR...
Conclusion • Extrusion applicable to large variety of materials • R&D and industry products/applications • Scalable, easy adaptable design • Many applications and products • Continuous technologies all-in-one
pellet
• homogenisation
Innovative Condor Line
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Pellets and filaments With main polymers macro or nanomaterials (graphene in this picture) could be introduced, in any percentage, via liquid pumps, powder feeders, ...
Substrate
blown-film integration Foaming
Innovative nano materials are easily integrated in everyday products allowing the success of such nano components when results proved feasible and economically advantageous...
associated member
Acknowledgment We thank IIT of Genova (Italy) for the supply of graphene and their collaboration in the Grapholymer project