Filament - a thermoplastic material used in the 3D printing process, so far it has been mostly produced only from non-biodegradable materials. Elements printed from this type of filaments, if not recycled, have an extremely harmful effect on the environment. The destructive effect on the ecosystem is also the emission of toxic...

Currently, we are moving towards a more ecologically-conscious society, which is evident through the introduction of laws and regulations both on the global and national market. Last year brought a significant increase in electricity prices. This is due, among others, to the threefold increase in the price of CO2 emission...

Currently, many efforts are made to design, study and synthesize new polymers and to create previously unknown polymer blends. For this purpose, rolling mills can be found as an extremely useful equipment for many companies and laboratories. Versatility and ease of use makes that these devices are very often used in industry of,...

Global production of plastics in 2018 has reached over 350 million tons [1], which shows how big the potential of research into these materials is in order to improve their properties and enable their application in many fields of science, industry and everyday life. Such high popularity of the mentioned materials results from...

Since years we observe the huge development of 3D printing technology, and from year to year newer devices using innovative printing techniques are being created. However, it all have started in 1984, when an American scientist Charles Hull has invented a stereolithograph. Over the years, the „layer by layer”...

3D printing is well-known in architecture but until now house making with this method was just a demonstration.

On 18th of May 2018, we had a great pleasure to receive in our headquarters in Skawina a group of students from University of Technology in Lublin. Students belong to the University Science Club and they are constantly deepen their knowledge of plastic processing. Visits in our company was a perfect idea and a possibility to...

On 3rd March 2018 at the Faculty of Pharmacy of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków there was held a lecture by ZAMAK MERCATOR employees as part of the sessions on hot-melt extrusion in Industrial Pharmacy.

"We believe that science is diverse, and therefore success measures and solutions also have to be diverse; but every time they should result in the same thing - quality”, said Prof. Jarosław Górniak, the Chairman of the National Congress of Science, during a discussion panel on Polish science and the need of higher...

In 3D printers working in FDM technology (Fused Deposition Modeling), products are formed by melting the polymer and laying it layer by layer. The raw material in this production are filaments, which are produced by melt extrusion on single-screw extruders (3D printing filament production line is described here) from plastic...

Each year, 7 million Mg of waste tires is discarded as a hazardous waste, which disposal is one of the current challenges of recycling. Innovative and prospective method of rubber waste disposal is thermo-mechanical regeneration of rubber, which can be carried out in twin-screw extruders.

Pharmaceutical extrusion poses specific challenges to users that are quite different from those observed in the plastic material processing industry.

One of the key elements affecting the quality of obtained products and their mechanical properties or appearance is the skillful selection of conditions regarding processing of the plastic materials. The correct choice of extrusion parameters of polymeric materials requires knowledge of their properties, the temperatures at...

A modern design of extruders for plastic materials should have, among other things, the lowest possible consumption of energy per unit of manufactured product. The electricity consumption needed to heat the plasticizing system to the operating temperature and the heat loss to the environment during production, are a significant...

The results of the research conducted by Zamak Mercator, especially in the innovative design and innovative performance of laboratory extruders is a response to market demand from consumers who expect better technical parameters of the equipment with regard, in particular, to the diameter of the screw, torque and power of an...

The innovative line developed by Zamak Mercator enables a process for rubber vulcanization and silicone in an infrared radiation field. The new technology is based on the application of special ovens equipped with IR radiators, which, in comparison to a conventional hot air oven provide more efficient vulcanization with respect...