Coating Protects Twin Screws & Barrels.A highly wear-resistant tungsten-carbide coating is newly available for refurbishing twin screws, barrels, and other components. The coating was developed 10 years ago by Conforma Clad Inc., New Albany New Albany, city (1990 pop. 36,322), seat of Floyd co., S Ind., near the falls of the Ohio River opposite Louisville, Ky.; inc. 1819. The city was a shipbuilding center in the 19th cent., and the riverboats Robert E. Lee and Eclipse were built there. , Ind IND Investigational new drug Therapeutics A status assigned by the FDA to a drug before allowing its use in humans, exempting it from premarketing approval requirements so that experimental clinical trials may be conducted. See Phase 1.2, 3 studies, Sponsorship. ., together with Krupp Werner & Pfleiderer Corp., Ramsey, N.J. Until now, it was available exclusively for lining barrels of W&P twin-screw compounders. But a new agreement between the companies allows Conforma Clad to offer the coating more widely. The coating is applied directly to the barrel or screw screw, simple machine consisting essentially of a solid cylinder, usually of metal, around which an inclined plane winds spirally, either clockwise or counterclockwise. with a metallurgical met·al·lur·gy n. 1. The science that deals with procedures used in extracting metals from their ores, purifying and alloying metals, and creating useful objects from metals. 2. bond, so it can't separate. |
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