Our seminar is held twice a year in Spring and Fall, with the exception of NPE tradeshow year (this year).

Our fall seminar is a basics introduction into the polymer extrusion world of Davis-Standard. During a 3-part presentation, our team of experts will review the basic extruder functions and major extruder components. Diving in-depth into topics such as the drive motor, power transmission, material feeding, the feed section, barrel, cooling systems, transducers, breaker plate, screen changers, and melt pumps.

Our experts cover maintenance and safety, dies, controls and you get to learn about screw design and practical application from award winning John Christiano. Christiano is our expert and VP of Davis-Standard Technology and he will walk you through polymer processing engineering and process optimization.

We will also include our break out sessions dedicated to the variety of product line applications Davis-Standard in embedded in – Blown Film, Cast Film, Elastomer, Extrusion Coating, Pipe, Profile, Tubing, Sheet, and Wire & Cable.

We like to bring you out of the classroom as well and put you in front of our machines. Offering borescoping demonstrations to get hands on technique to properly measure and align the barrels in your machine, a tour of our Connecticut Plant and we bring you to our Research & Development lab to be shown Christiano’s feedscrew theory up close.

Registration is filled for the Fall of 2024 session but please reach out to Marketing at marketing@davis-standard.com to get on the early bird emailing list to get updates and the next registration information first!