EVOLUTION OF EXTRUSION

TECHNOLOGIES

María del Pilar Noriega, Ph.D.

ICIPC – Director General

Plastic and Rubber Training and Research

Institute
 OUTLINE

• About ICIPC
• Single screw extrusion (SSE) and Intellectual
property (IP)
• Twin screw extrusion (TSE) and IP
• Multiple screw extrusion and IP
• Overview of technologies
• Conclusions
Portfolio of Services
2016 Statistics

Laboratory
testing

Training

AUTOMOTION
Advising and
Consulting ENERGY

Other operating HEALTH

income PACKAGING, PIPING
AND OTHERS
Non Competitive INTELLECTUAL
R&D funding PROPERTY
OTHERS
Competitive R&D
funding

R&D contribution
– Companies

Memberships R&D
 Coverage of Services
2016

110 Companies

92 Companies

Big Companies

Small and Medium

Companies

REST OF THE
COUNTRY

Distribution by company size Geographic coverage

Prototype and pilot trials
(see Brochure)

www.icipc.org
Compounding
Main applications

Reactive
Extrusion

Food
Hot Melt extrusion:
pasta,
Extrusion cereals,
proteins

Compounding
Plastics Masterbatch,
Extrusion WPC,
biopolymers
Compounding and Mixing
Agglomerates Dispersion

- Dispersion involves reduction in

size

- Distribution involves spreading

the minor component
throughout the matrix
 Predecessors of Extrusion …

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Windmills for water management, 11th century

 Extrusion
Main Technologies

Single Twin Multiple

screw screw screw
extrusion extrusion extrusion
 Single screw extrusión and IP

CPC: B29C47
TTL:(Single AND screw AND extru*) AND ABST:(Polymer OR Plastic)
144 technologies
Source: AcclaimIP, 2017
 Single screw extrusión and IP

CPC: B29C47
TTL:(Single AND screw AND extru*) AND ABST:(Polymer OR Plastic)
144 technologies
Source: AcclaimIP, 2017
 Single screw extrusión and IP

CPC: B29C47
TTL:(Single AND screw AND extru*) AND ABST:(Polymer OR Plastic)
144 technologies
Source: AcclaimIP, 2017
 Twin screw extrusión and IP

CPC: B29C47
TTL:(Twin AND screw AND extru*) AND ABST:(Polymer OR Plastic)
148 technologies
Source: AcclaimIP, 2017
 Twin screw extrusión and IP

CPC: B29C47
TTL:(Twin AND screw AND extru*) AND ABST:(Polymer OR Plastic)
148 technologies
Source: AcclaimIP, 2017
 Twin screw extrusión and IP

CPC: B29C47
TTL:(Twin AND screw AND extru*) AND ABST:(Polymer OR Plastic)
148 technologies
Source: AcclaimIP, 2017
 Multiple screw extrusión and IP

CPC: B29C47
TTL:(Multiple AND screw AND extru*) AND ABST:(Polymer OR Plastic)
8 technologies
Source: AcclaimIP, 2017
 Multiple screw extrusión and IP

CPC: B29C47
TTL:(Multiple AND screw AND extru*) AND ABST:(Polymer OR Plastic)
8 technologies
Source: AcclaimIP, 2017
 Multiple screw extrusión and IP

CPC: B29C47
TTL:(Multiple AND screw AND extru*) AND ABST:(Polymer OR Plastic)
8 technologies
Source: AcclaimIP, 2017
IN SUMMARY

OVERVIEW OF
TECHNOLOGIES
 MRS EXTRUDER AND IP
Patent
• “Extruder for production of
plastic melts, has satellite-
screw that is configured to
accommodate respective
gears and is removably
connected with each other, and Gneuss GmbH
sprocket that is configured to
receive evacuation drum”

• DE102013003380 (B3) ―
2014-04-24
BUSS KNEADER

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 Kneading oscillating screw

 Excellent for compounding and
mixing.
 High output.
 Screw rotation speed up to 700 rpm.

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 BUSS KNEADER AND IP
Inventor: Hans Ulrich
Patent application Siegenthaler (CH)
• “Mixing and kneading
machine”

• US 2007 / 0183253 A1
TRIVOLUTION® Tri-Kneader

Similar to an oscillating mixing and kneading

screw but with three strokes per revolution of
the screw shaft
 TRIVOLUTION® Tri-Kneader and IP

Patent application
• “Kneading method and
apparatus” B & P PROCESS EQUIPMENT
AND SYSTEMS LLC

• TW201433356 (A) ―
2014-09-01
Helibar Extruder and IP

Extrudex GmbH
• “Single screw extruder”

• EP1194278 (A1) ― 2002-

04-10

• US2004085852 (A1) ―
2004-05-06

• Inventor: Dipl.-Ing.
Eberhard Grünschloss
 Helibar Extruder

Barrel

Solids

Screw

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Theory of solids/melt conveying; „Developed“ screw and barrel

V-2001-1
Helibar Extruder and IP

Source: Thomson Innovation

 CO-ROTATING
TWIN SCREW EXTRUSION (TSE)
 Leistritz and IP

US 7954991 B2
Charles Martin, Elliott Gilbert
 Ring Extruder
• “Installation equipped with a multiple-
screw extruder, particularly a ring
extruder”

• WO2005053931 (A1) ― 2005-06-16

• Inventor: Christel Andreas (CH)

Buehler Group
Ring Extruder

12 shafts symmetrically
arranged in a ring ExtriCom
RingExtruder RE XP
Up to 5000 kg/h
CONCLUSIONS
Active
Polymers ingredients :
API or ANI

Additives
Regrind Plasticizers
Fibers / fillers

New materials
and products
 Acknowledgements
• ICIPC: Instituto de Capacitación e
Investigación del Plástico y del Caucho

• Universidad EAFIT

• COLCIENCIAS: The Administrative

Department of Science, Technology and
Innovation

• International collaborations:
Dipl.-Ing. Eberhard Grünschloß, Dr. Costas
Gogos, Dr. Chris Rauwendaal, Leistritz, Helix,
Arburg, TA Instruments, among others
 Agradecimientos a la UNIDAD DE GESTIÓN DE
CRECIMIENTO EMPRESARIAL administrada por
BANCOLDEX (Colombia) por el apoyo estatal de
cofinanciación que permitió la obtención de
información requerida para la realización de estas
memorias del seminario
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