Diamond America Introduces Swing Bolt Configuration

Diamond America Corporation will introduce the swing bolt configuration, its latest extruder design feature, at ChemShow 2013, December 10-12 in New York City. The swing bolt allows Diamond America’s Table Top Extruders to be easily cleaned and maintained. The unit can be quickly disassembled, the screw and barrel purged and cleaned, and the die replaced within minutes. As a result, the machine’s downtime is greatly reduced and productivity is increased.

Diamond America’s Table Top Extruders (TT Series) are suited for research, testing, quality control, and production applications, and the swing bolt configuration makes them ideal for laboratory use when testing different materials or profiles. The TT Series features a modular design and all units are available with mobile cart to provide you with ultimate flexibility.

Diamond America offers both standard 1” and 2” Table Top Extruders and custom designed and built extruders for special applications such as high temperature or corrosive polymer processing. The TT Series is currently used by manufacturers to test a wide range of products and as a teaching tool in research labs in many Universities and Colleges. “We bought the TT100 extruder manufactured by Diamond America in order to produce the extruded pellets of molecular sieves including aluminosilicates and titanosilicates in our lab … the equipment has been working well on the forming of inorganic materials,” stated Lan Wu, Technician, University of Alberta.

The TT100 1” Single Screw Extruder and TF200 2” Twin Feed Extruder with swing bolt configuration will be on display in the Diamond America booth for all ChemShow 2013 visitors to see. Details on all Diamond America TT Series extruders can be found at http://www.daextrusion.com/products/extruders/tt100-extruder/

Diamond America Corporation Launches New Website

Diamond America Corporation is inviting visitors to explore its new website at daextrusion.com  The new website has been designed to provide the ultimate user-friendly experience with improved navigation and functionality throughout, allowing customers to access detailed product information and videos with the option to share information across all major social networking sites.


The site includes extensive information regarding the applications, services and products on offer to help customers understand Diamond America Corporation’s complete range of extrusion solutions. Technical data, videos and application case studies work together to provide a detailed overview of Diamond America’s extrusion capabilities across a wide range of materials, industries served and customized extrusion equipment.

Check out the new site here: daextrusion.com

Diamond America Corporation Announce Promotion of Terry Hendershot to President

Diamond America Corporation, a leader in extrusion equipment design and manufacture, today announced that Terry Hendershot, vice president of sales and operations, has been promoted to president effective immediately. Hendershot joined Diamond America Corporation in 2011.

“Since joining Diamond America Corporation, Terry has proven himself to be an invaluable part of our executive team. Under Terry’s leadership, our sales have increased by 25%, and our equipment offerings have expanded into new and emerging markets,” said Mike Magee, chief executive officer of Diamond America Corporation. “With the company’s recently announced strategic shift toward the catalyst industry, Terry possesses the experience and leadership qualities to develop and implement the knowledge-based solutions model we are committed to.”

Hendershot’s promotion coincides with Diamond America’s recent brand re-launch that repositioned the company to reflect initiatives to accelerate innovation, elevate design and engineering processes, and capitalize on the company’s manufacturing capabilities.

“Our focus will remain on designing equipment to meet the specific needs of each individual customer, and delivering equipment that is built to exceed the highest standards,” said Hendershot.

Hendershot has 26 years experience in the extrusion markets including high tech ceramics, catalyst, brick/tile, food, chemical, rubber and butyl extrusion.