A patent proposal by Thermwood could solve one of large area extrusion’s oldest challenges: keeping bead size consistent when a pellet fed printhead speeds up, slows down, and corners.

The compact Cflow extrusion plastometers are built as a stand-alone instrument for fast monitoring of melt mass flow rate (MFR). They are mainly used for goods inwards checks at plastics processing ...

Aluminum is particularly well suited to the extrusion process due to its excellent plasticity at extrusion temperature. Only a minor degree of work-hardening takes place at this temperature and ...

A lot of people want to print faster. Maybe they don’t like to wait, or they need to print a lot of things. Maybe it is just human nature to want to push things to go faster. The problem is, if you ...

MINNEAPOLIS, Nov. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Chromatic 3D Materials is launching RX-Flow™, a new line of 3D printers for reactive extrusion additive manufacturing with thermoset polyurethanes. Designed ...

Discover how digital melt flow indexing enhances safety, accuracy and workflow efficiency in materials testing.