It’s hot outside now and, in some places, very rainy. But people still find it hard to believe that water is a chemical compound, and natural, too (see last month’s column). Chemistry is just a code ...

Key market opportunities in polymer extrusion 3D printing include the booming low-cost segment, which is outpacing ...

Metallurgists and materials engineers might work in larger extrusion companies, focusing on alloy development, heat treatment processes, and failure analysis. These positions typically require ...

More agile techniques are improving the development of multiparticulate drug-delivery systems. Pellets have gained considerable popularity as multiparticulate delivery systems. Widely demonstrated to ...

T-slot extrusions used to be somewhat mysterious, but today they are quite common thanks to their use in many 3D printers. However, it is one thing to assemble a kit with some extrusions and another ...

With the new extrusion plant, AGT Foods now has about $100 million invested in North Dakota. The plant will produce a variety of products, including yellow-pea based Veggipasta in several shapes. Sen.

Babies are born with different reflexes that help them survive the first months of life. Reflexes are involuntary actions that arise in response to certain stimuli. The extrusion or tongue-thrust ...

Soft viscoelastic solids are flexible materials that can return to their original shape after being stretched. Due to the ...

Last month's Simple Science covered heat, the physics division most important to extruders. It's the countable energy that softens the material and makes it extrudable. If you haven't read it, it's ...

Hot-melt extrusion offers many advantages compared with conventional solid dosage form manufacturing, and has consequently received considerable attention from both the pharmaceutical industry and ...

Earlier this year, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Washington, announced that it took delivery of the second generation of its ShAPE, or Shear Assisted Processing and Extrusion, ...