Icma at Milan Polytechnic

Within the framework of a collaboration that started in 2004, Icma San Giorgio has installed a complete laboratory line equipped an MCM HT 25 co-rotating twin screw extruder at the "Giulio Natta" Department of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering of the Milan Polytechnic.
The extruder belongs to the smaller size of Icma's high torque MCM range and has been designed to process a wide range of polymeric materials for the R&D activity carried out by the Polytechnic and by Icma itself, in particular for the preparation of micro- and nano-composites filled with particles or short fibres.
The manufacturer states that the use of these materials requires a special design, both in terms of the mechanical configuration of the extruder and also regarding the chemical formulation in order to obtain an optimized microstructure at the end of the process. It is therefore essential to determine the appropriate correlation between composition, process variables, micro- and nano-structure and final properties of the composite.