Plastics Manufacturing Center
Breuder Advanced Technology & Health Sciences Center, Rm. E128 · (570) 321-5533
Equipment
Penn College's state-of-the-art facilities and equipment available to support PMC client initiatives:
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Processing
- Injection Molding
- Nissei ES3000 Electric Injection Molding Machine
- Cincinnati Milacron Injection Molder, VT110 110 Ton, 7 oz. shot size
- Battenfeld Austria Injection Molder, BA 200 CD: 20 Ton, 20 g shot size
- ASTM Mold Retrofitted with RJG Associates Data Acquisition System
- Boy 22 D Injection Molder (2) 20 Ton
- Blow Molding
- Bronco 888 Two-Stage Blow Molder
- Hesta Blow Molder
- Extrusion/Compounding
- Killion Single Screw Extruder, 24/1 L/D 1lb./hr
- Film Blowing Tower
- 6” Sheet Diev
- Goodman Vacumm Sizer
- Leistritz Twin Screw Extruder 27mm
- Brabender Extruders/Plasticorders (2)
- Gala Industries, Laboratory Underwater pelletizing system
- Rotational Molding
- Med Keff-Nye Shuttle PDÔ 42” Offset Arm
- Wedco Grinder (75 lbs/hour)
- Sweco Classifier
- Vacuum Former – Formech 300x
- Compression Molder – Carver Press
- Auxiliary Equipment
- Formech 300x Vacuum Former
- Carver Press Compression Molder
- Annealing Oven
- Pelletizer
- Plastics Grinder
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Testing
- Analytical
- Bio Rad FTS 3000 Excalibur Series Spectrophometer with UMN 250 Microscope
- Perkin Elmer Pyris 1 Differential Scanning Calorimeter/Thermal Gravimetric Analysis (TGA 6) System
- Arizona Instrument Computrax Moisture Analyzer MaxÒ 2000 XL
- Rheological
- Kayeness Galaxy 5 Capillary Rheometer
- Haake PK 100 Rotational Viscometer
- Tinius Olsen Plastometer
- Tinius Olsen Melt Indexers (2)
- Physical
- Heat Deflection Tester
- Testing Machines Inc. Izod/Charpy Impact Tester
- Gardner Impact
- ARM Impact Tester
- Tinius Olsen H25KS Universal Testing Machine (UTM) with Environmental Chamber
- Load Cells-25 kN, 5kN, 250N & 50N
- 20% Extensometer & Laser Extensometer
- Tinius Olsen 1000 UTM (2) with Tensile and Flexural fixtures
- 1000 & 50 lb load cells
- 20% Extensometer
- Auxiliary Equipment
- Rotap Sieve Analyzer
- Density Gradient Columns
- Electronic Densimeter MD 2005