Why a REX Workshop? Twin screw extruders facilitate reactions and create polymers that might otherwise be difficult, if not impossible, to synthesize in a batch process. The extruder is a small mass device (melt pool inside screw flights and a barrel) that mixes and conveys both high and low viscosity materials, generates high interfacial areas between differing phases of materials, efficiently contacts gases and liquids with high viscosity polymers, and is ideally suited to process small percentages of a component into a complex formulation. The result is a continuous process with better manufacturing efficiencies, improved product quality, and shorter reaction times as compared a batch processing. Scale-up from lab to production is easier too.
Note flight depth of TSE for short mass transfer distances
By attending the Leistritz Extrusion REX workshop you will learn the theories, operating principles and maintenance advantages inherent with the continuous twin screw extrusion REX process.
Program Agenda
This program is subject to change.
WEDNESday, MAY 13, 2026
Day One
Classroom Sessions
Lunch and DInner Reception
Thursday, May 14, 2026
Day Two
Presentations and Demonstrations
Case studies that will be presented, for example:
TPU REX twin screw extrusion system
Thermoplastics Urethane REX system: Liquid feed streams are metered into the TSE by injection pumps equipped with mass-flow meters to monitor/control the rate and formulation %s. The TSE process section (L/D, screw design, vent configuration) and feed rate are designed according to the intended molecular weight and molecular weight distribution of the TPU.
Lunch
Panel discussion
Individual meetings
Workshop Adjournment at 3pm
In addition to Leistritz Extrusion USA staff, there will be presentations from industry experts and academia, including:
Rob Jerman, Extrusion Technology and Innovations
Matt Upton, Mahr Pumps
Ali Ayoub, College of Natural Resources, North Carolina State University
Dana Darley, Darley Extrusion Solutions
Yiro Shimabukuro, The Polymers Center
Artem Sulimov, University of Georgia
Others to be added
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