Modernization Services
Davis-Standard is one of the few companies in the industry with a designated department dedicated to analyzing and solving customers` problems. The company`s ``Aftermarket`` group offers many important services to ensure that all of their customers are operating at optimum capacity.
Services:
- Installation services
- Emergency breakdown services
- Fast track spare parts fulfillment
- Warranted rebuilds of all extruder makes
- Plant and quality evaluations
- Retrofits of panels, drives and controls
- L/D modifications
- In-plant operator training
- Factory seminars
- Screw technology optimization
- Plant efficiency audits
- Problem solving and consultations
Plus, Davis-Standard`s Aftermarket department is able to factory recondition any type of extruder, whether it`s a Davis-Standard, Sterling, Johnson, NRM, Welex, Entwistle, Royle, Prodex and the list continues. The company`s extruder retrofit packages include any combination of existing mechanical, electrical and electronic equipment already in place on a line to ensure efficiency and the highest pay-back for all extrusion processors.
Hands-On Extrusion Experience-Service and Spare Parts
All Davis-Standard service representatives have been thoroughly trained to handle any of your electrical, mechanical and spare parts requirements. Every Davis-Standard manufacturing facility maintains their own service departments comprising more than 500 years of hands-on extrusion experience.
Every Davis-Standard facility has an extensive inventory of mechanical and electrical spare parts including feedscrews, and extrusion parts such as thermocouples, heaters, motors, and more.
So whether you require preventative maintenance or an emergency repair always remember that our service experts are only a phone call away.
Technical Center - Extrusion Processors
Davis-Standard operates fully staffed Technology Centers in the United States and Europe. A 15,000 square foot facility in Pawcatuck, Connecticut allows Davis-Standard to better serve its customers` needs. The company`s technical centers have been designed specifically for extrusion processors to analyze polymer processing characteristics under laboratory conditions and integrate solutions into their existing operations.
The company`s technology center personnel utilize a variety of equipment to evaluate a wide assortment of extrusion processes including:
- Smooth and grooved barrel single screw extruders
- Intermeshing twin screw compounding extruders
- Conical twin screw extruders
- Parallel twin screw extruder
Whether it`s improvements in extrusion stability, output capacity, regrind feeding, additive mixing or melt temperature reduction, Davis-Standard technical center staffs are able to accurately analyze a variety of process parameters. All test runs are customized and carefully evaluated by the center`s engineers who are able to draw on the company`s extensive collection of data on thousands of specialized screw designs and material processing information.
