Laboratory-sized twin-screw extruders are essential for running experiments before moving to larger-sized compounding lines. Compounders have a number of options available to them: buying their own laboratorysized equipment to run in-house trials; outsource the task to a lab operated by the extruder manufacturer they plan to buy production-scale equipment from; or use an independent academic or commercial lab.

To learn more about the process of planning and running a lab trial, Compounding World spoke to Adam Dreiblatt, Director of Process Technology for extruder manufacturer CPM Century Extrusion, and Thomas McHouell, President of the Polymers Technology Center, which is a non-profit compounding lab in Charlotte, NC, US.

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