The 900SPR Series, designed with an adjustable center inline die, ensures excellent precision for close tolerance walls – as thin as .0002″ (.000508cm) – in such applications as multi-layer, multi-lumen, encapsulated stripe(s) and catheter tubing.

The O. D. range of the 900SPR Series is .005″ – .375″ (.0127cm –.9525cm). This inline tubing die is adaptable to all extruders and is compatible with most styles and brands of tooling on the market today. Guill’s proprietary quick-change tooling feature can be added to many other tooling styles and brands.

Also, the 900SPR Series houses an adjustment mode that has been significantly improved, with a new FeatherTouch™ concentricity adjustment option.

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The plastics can be run on the inside or the outside layer because the Syncroflow tooling is designed with a barrier that insulates and separates the extruded materials from each other. This extra layer facilitates the processing of two (2) materials within a wide range of processing temperatures.

With a fully adjustable design, Syncroflow allows for separate concentricity and gum space adjustment on each of both layers. Manufactured with 420 stainless steel, the SyncroFlow design has a proven outstanding flow pattern for low volume extrusion, and all the components are designed to hold tight/close tolerances. The new Syncroflow Series is available in standard sizes from 1/8” to 6” in diameter.

Saving time and money makes the Syncroflow technology invaluable in producing advanced products in today’s tough economic climate.

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Guill Tool & Engineering is dramatically changing the agricultural and horticultural landscape with their new advanced tooling that utilizes three layers to produce the necessary tubing for efficient and environmentally safe drip irrigation.

How It Works
The head/die engineering utilizes a spiral flow that handles three layers. Prior to this advancement, only two layers were common. One of the key benefits of this tooling is that it allows an inexpensive regrind polymer, or most any type of polymer, to be the bulk of the material inside the tube, hose or pipe.

The new drip irrigation crosshead/die is designed to produce a tube that uses an ABA, ABC or virtually any type of three-layer construction. In this application, the inner layer is composed of a majority of a less expensive regrind material (or any polymer desired) and is typically surrounded by a very thin layer of virgin polymer, often times only 1/1000th (.0001) of an inch (.00254 mm) or less.

With Guill’s patented flow design, the walls of the tubing require less polymer material to achieve the desired or mandated tube-burst strength requirements, saving money for the drip-irrigation user.

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West Warwick, RI – A new two-headed extrusion tooling system from Guill Tool & Engineering Co. is 40%-50% more productive in manufacturing rubber or silicone end products than conventional single-head systems.

Guill’s new DualFlo™ system employs two identical heads joined by a specially designed metering valve to transform a single extruding machine into one with dual output. This results in bottom line savings in reduced capital costs, labor operating costs, and material costs as well.

With the DualFlo’s special engineering a multi-layer and multi-stripe capability are standard. And, virtually any existing extruder layout can be configured to accommodate this new system.

“We designed the DualFlo to enhance extrusion productivity while meeting the particular needs of OEM and medical tubing manufacturers – who must produce precision tubes with precise diameter and wall thicknesses for today’s advanced technology applications,” said Bill Conley, Guill’s sales manager. “In addition to these precision capabilities, our customers are delighted with the savings on labor, equipment and material compounds.”

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For high speed or high volume applications to ultra low volume that minimizes polymer residence time in the extrusion chamber, Guill has a host of benefits to serve every special application.

With Guill you select the best features and benefits to help optimize production as well as increase quality and precision.

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For high speed or high volume applications to ultra low volume that minimizes polymer residence time in the extrusion chamber, Guill has a host of benefits to serve every special application.

With Guill you select the best features and benefits to help optimize production as well as increase quality and precision.

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Although the concept of nanotechnology (controlling matter on an atomic scale) dates back to 1959, it is only now becoming more commercially realized. It has the potential to challenge the way all products are extruded in almost every type of medical tubular or related industrial product application.

Advanced nanotechnology, when used in extrusion tubing as opposed to the conventional format, offers significant savings through the use of less material and/or less expensive material, as well as a reduction in different materials needed for production. In working to overcome the limitations of a number of layers to use in tubular or hollow products, far more layers can now be extruded, giving manufacturers the ability to create an extremely wide range of advanced medical tubes to fulfill the growing list of specialty type products.

With state-of-the-art 3D CAD, CFD and FEA (Finite Element Analysis) to assist engineers in the nanotechnology process, customizing of the die will be key in accommodating critical characteristics included in every final product created from extrusion tubing.

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Guill utilizes state-of-the-art 3D CAD, CFD and FEA software to design a broad spectrum of tooling.

Guill Medical Series Extrusion Tooling

For high speed or high volume applications to ultra low volume that minimizes polymer residence time in the extrusion chamber, Guill has a host of benefits to serve every special application.

With Guill you select the best features and benefits to help optimize production as well as increase quality and precision.

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“Since its inception in 1962, Guill Tool and Engineering has maintained a commitment that provides our customers with the latest innovations in extrusion design and technology. This commitment has led to a redesign of our popular 700 Series crosshead,” states William Conley, Sales Manager for Guill.

The 700 Series crosshead is adaptable to all extruders and compatible with all styles and brands of tooling on the market today. Guill’s proprietary quick change tooling feature can be added with most other tooling styles and brands.

Also, the 700 Series houses an adjustment mode that has been significantly improved with a new feather-touch concentricity adjustment option.

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West Warwick, RI – The new NanoFlow die technology from Guill Tool & Engineering Co., Inc. has the potential to leap-frog existing state-of-the-art extrusion die technology.  The NanoFlow die (patent and patents pending) can create a thousand plus layers from a single extruder as opposed to roughly a dozen layers prior to the NanoFlow’s development. The NanoFlow layer thickness is in the micrometer (1 millionth of a meter) to nanometer (1 billionth of a meter) range.

“Several years ago, we started working on overcoming the limitations in the number of layers we could use in tubular or hollow products,” says Richard Guillemette, Guill’s Vice-President. “Guill now has nano tooling designs with far more layers than what was previously possible—all of which can create a wide range of advanced products. We are encouraged with the potential of this new die design.” He concluded “Guill’s NanoFlow die technology could be a new tool in the product designer’s toolbox.”

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