Extruders for rubber and silicone - the latest mixes, the latest equipment
Considering the widespread demand for high-quality rubber products of a varied purpose, more and more emphasis is being put on improving the recipes for rubber mixes. The introduction of ever newer rubber compounds with desirable new properties is also noticeable. The mixture usually includes one of several types of rubber and...
BIODEGRADABLE FILAMENT - THE FUTURE OF 3D PRINTING
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...
Fast, cheap and clean production? Choose TOYO electric injection molding machine!
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...
Bet on the Polish manufacturer of rolling mills!
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,...
The most innovative solutions in plastics research
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...
Filament for 3D printer – quality of your product depends on it!
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 – Investment in future
3D printing is well-known in architecture but until now house making with this method was just a demonstration.
Students from the Lublin University of Technology just visited ZAMAK MERCATOR
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...
Pharmacy science and medical equipment in Zamak Mercator’s product range
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.
ZAMAK MERCATOR and science - a visit by Kraków University of Technology students to our plant
"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...
Challenges in the production of filament for 3D printers
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...
Innovations in the recycling of rubber waste
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.
In search of innovative pharmaceutical (extruder) lines
Pharmaceutical extrusion poses specific challenges to users that are quite different from those observed in the plastic material processing industry.
Problem, solution, consequences
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...
Energy-efficient extruders of new generation
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...
New model of laboratory extruders
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...
Innovative solutions for IR vulcanization ovens
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...