Extruders for the Rocky Mountain Area

The Rocky Mountain Area extrusion industry leans towards what we call pipe, profile and medical tube processing, with a lot of growth in the medical tube sector. There are some companies manufacturing sheet, blown film, wire and cable, but the main concentration for this type of manufacturing does not tend to be in this region, so I would call these secondary extrusion markets in the Rocky Mountain Area.

There are a number of options in the way of extruder designs availabe from Davis-Standard for the primary markets in this region, and so I will sort some of these options out for you. If you would like additional information on the equipment outlined below, or on extrusion equipment available for the secondary markets as I outlined above, please go to the CONTACT US page and let us know what your interests are.

I would organize the Davis-Standard extruder offerings for this local market into the following catagories:

	MEDD extruders and process development systems: Small extruders  or systems for laboratories and low throughput applications. Medical Tubing is a typical use.
1″ HPA Adjustable Co-Extruder	HPE/HPA extruders, 1/2″ to 1 1/4″: Designed for small profiles, medical tubing,andasco-extru     Fixed mounting bases   Adjustable basesders.
2″ SuperBlue Extruder	SuperBlue Series, 2″ to 4 1/2″: Pre-Engineered, standardized offering. Some sizes built for stock to reduce lead times, but all are preconfigured so they do not have to pass through engineering
3 1/2″ Mark Series Extruder	Mark Series, 2″ to 3 ½”: Engineered and configured to order. More flexibility in machine configuration than the SuperBlue, but it affects price and delivery
10″ Thermatic Extruder	Thermatic Series, 2″ to 10″: A robust design ideally suited to larger extruders. Engineered and configured to order like the Mark. This also can be supplied in sizes the same as the Mark, but adds a few heavy duty features that are normally only found on the larger extruders. One obvious feature is the barrel support at the very front of the barrel instead of one zone back as is typical on smaller extruders.
GC61 Conical Twin Screw Extruder	Conical and Parallel Twin Screw Series Typically used for pvc powder in markets like fencing, windows small to medium and large sized pipe and profile.