In the dynamic world of material science and product development, laboratory extruders stand as indispensable tools for researchers and engineers. These compact yet powerful systems enable precise control over material processing, making them vital for prototyping, formulation optimization, and small-scale production. Let’s explore how these machines drive innovation across industries.
How Laboratory Extruders Work？
At their core, laboratory extruders operate on the principle of controlled material transformation. Raw materials—polymers, composites, food ingredients, or pharmaceuticals—are fed into a barrel where rotating screws generate heat and shear forces. This process melts, mixes, and homogenizes materials before shaping them through a die into strands, filaments, or custom profiles. Advanced models integrate real-time sensors to monitor parameters like temperature, pressure, and torque, ensuring reproducibility for critical R&D workflows.
Types of Laboratory Extruders
- Single-Screw Extruders
- Twin-Screw Extruders (Co-/Counter-Rotating)
Product performance of Hartek lab single screw extruder:
* Professionally manufactured screw and barrel, high processing precision, quality assurance
* Brand motor drive, stable and reliable screw speed control
* Touch screen and siemens PLC centralized control system,
* High intelligence, easy operation
Application range of laboratory small single screw extruder:
* Melting and plasticizing extrusion of materials
* Optimization of extrusion molding process parameters
* Establishment of small experimental lines for film, sheet, pipe, granulation, etc.
Product performance of Hartek Twin screw extrusion line:
* Split open barrel and building block screw structure, convenient and fast process adjustment
* Quick opening die head and screen changer, fast material cleaning and screen changing
* Touch screen and siemens PLC centralized control system, high intelligence, easy operation
Technical Parameters / Application of twin screw extrusion line:
* Mixing, kneading and pelletizing of general plastics, engineering plastics, elastomer, etc
* General plastics, engineering plastics, elastomers and other materials mixing, mixing and extrusion granulation
* Blending modification and reaction extrusion of composite materials
* High-efficiency mixing of polymer alloys
* Polymer filling and reinforcement modification
