KRC Kneader
The KRC Kneader is a horizontal twin-shaft continuous kneading and reacting processor. It is our flagship product with more than 50 years of delivery experience.
Key features of our KRC Kneader are excellent mixing performance and high flexibility.
The excellent mixing performance is due to its unique structure: The clearance between the paddles on both shafts, as well as the clearance between these paddles and the barrel wall, is kept to a minimum to ensure efficient and uniform mixing.
Our KRC Kneader offers flexible configuration options adapted to the intended application.
The paddles and screws are modular and can be rearranged individually to control residence time and axial pressure distribution to the material.
It can also be manufactured with a variety of materials.
Both ends of the shafts are held by bearings, so that the counterpart paddles and screws, or the paddles, screws and the barrel wall never make contact. This non-contact structure allows for the selection of not only wear-resistant materials but also corrosion-resistant ones, such as stainless steel.
The KRC Kneader is available in a wide range of sizes - from compact laboratory scale machines to large scale ones for serial production. The image on the right hand shows a laboratory scale kneader.
In the plastics industry, the KRC Kneader is mainly used for the polymerization of engineering plastics such as POM and TPU, as well as for kneading thermosetting plastics and for the dissolution or crystallization of polymers.
