Extrusion International 4-2025-USA

37 Extrusion International 4/2025 PIPE EXTRUSION its tried-and-true die designs. Access to exotic extrusion processes such as rotary die extrusion of filament and tubular end-products are also available. Supporting extrusion trials, the test lab also offers extrusion training, die cleaning services, sample inspec - tion, and end-product testing. Guill’s fluidized bath has a 50°C-605°C temperature range and a working volume of 15.7” x 47.” Customers can test materials, dies and actual extru - sion run time… all on Guill premises. Guill Tool & Engineering Tom Baldock, Sales Manager, Extrusion 10 Pike Street , West Warwick, RI 02893, USA tbaldock@guill.com The rheology lab’s scanning calorimeter First Extrusion Line for Highly Filled PVC Pipes in the Middle East Delivered The extrusion unit with direct dosing for the production of highly filled 3-layer PVC pipes is running: „Bahrain Pipes, one of the largest pipe manufacturers in the Middle East, was the first customer to choose our modern and sustainable machine solution“, Gernot Dorn, international Sales Director at battenfeld-cincinnati in Vienna, is pleased. The key feature of the combination of parallel twin-screw extruder twinEX and co-extruder conEX is the permanently installed gravimetric dosing unit on the twinEX. It allows the direct processing of chalk - without premixing. This saves energy, minimizes wear, ensures reliable dosing and provides flexibility in the use of materials. B ahrain Pipes manufactures pipes and system solutions for various applications. These include pipes for hotwater, coldwater andgas supply, pipes for sewage systems and pipes for data transport systems made of PE, PP-R and PVC. More than 20 ex - trusion lines are in operation at the production site in Manama, Bahrain, for the production of small and large pipes, coiled pipes and corrugated pipes. A large injection molding ma- chine park completes the extruded pipes with its own fittings to create complete systems if required. The company, which was founded in 1996, therefore has enormous ex - pertise and a broad portfolio and has a good reputation not only na- tionally but also internationally. Bah- rain Pipes selected the innovative ex- truder solution with dosing station from its long-standing machine sup- plier battenfeld-cincinnati primarily because of the material cost savings combined with increased flexibil - ity. “The customer has upgraded an existing pipe line with our extruder combination and is now able to pro- duce 3-layer pipes with a highly filled middle layer,” explains Gernot Dorn. High filler contents are of great interest for the production of PVC pipes, as the material costs still make up the lion's share of the production Plant manager P. Koneshwaran with technicians from battenfeld-cincinnati Austria GmbH, from left to right: Omar El Shami (Technician), Youssef El Shami (Technician), P. Koneshwaran (Plant Manager Bahrain Pipes), Philipp Steininger (Technician)