New coatings focus at Magog screws and barrels

Hertfordshire based engineering company Magog Industries is offering a fast-track turnround on screw and barrel refurbishment and repair to the plastics and rubber industry across the UK and Ireland. Given the uncertainty and rapidly changing situation brought about by the coronavirus and with many producers within the industry facing increased activity from food and medical sectors, the need to keep machine downtime to an absolute minimum is critical.

Established in 1964 as a general engineering company, Magog has evolved to offer full design, manufacture and supply of processing, mixing and conveying screw and barrels for extrusion, injection moulding, ISBM and blow moulding, along with fabrication services for machine parts.

“In addition to specialist screw and barrel manufacturing facilities, we offer repair and refurbishment of pre-used parts, saving our customers money not just against OEM items but in turnround too, saving valuable downtime”, explained John Allsop, Director and General Manager. “One of our key advantages is that we design everything to meet our customers’ specific processing and production requirements”.

Screw designs are configured to maximise performance from single start compression to a range of mixing elements for optimised distributive and dispersive mixing. The company also advise and offer design configuration for complex parallel and conical twin extruder screws.

Manufactured from high quality metals including EN 41B Steel provides hard wearing properties but also allows refurbishment of hard welded flights at a later date. Depending on material type, surface treatments are on offer to include ceramic, chrome, Hastelloy, Armoloy in addition to Nitride and bi-metallic hardened.

“We’ve been focussing on looking at measures, particularly surface treatment for abrasion and potential corrosion to increase resilience and longevity specifically in ceramic and chrome seal coatings for demanding applications such as blown film extrusion.” John explained, “By working closely with our customers we continue to innovate and develop our products to ensure we are always offering the most up to date solutions to meet the most demanding process applications”.

“For example, the recycling and re-processing market has grown in recent years for both new and refurbished screws and barrels for the company. Regrind material can bring its own challenges but are successfully met thanks to many years of expertise within our design, engineering and production teams” John concluded.  

For more information visit Magog Industries www.magog.co.uk or email [email protected]  

29/09/2020