HELIBAR® stands for sets of barrels and screws. The barrel has grooves along almost the entire length and the screw is a specially adapted barrier screw. HELIBAR® can be used for all single screw extrusion applications and for all thermoplastic polymers. HELIBAR® can also be used for high speed extruders and is designed for an optimal processing with regrind / recycled material. There are several thousand HELIBAR® units operating successfully in
the extrusion industry.

• Output
  Using a HELIBAR® barrel and screw combination the output of your single screw extruder can be improved by 20–100 %.
• Energy savings
  The use of HELIBAR® technology reduces the total energy consumption per kg product by 10–25 %.
• Lower melt temperature
  With HELIBAR® the melt temperature is reduced.
• Less wear on barrel and screw
  There is a drastic reduction of wear on a HELIBAR® unit.
• Pressure stability
  It is typical of HELIBAR® that up to a die pressure of 800 bar the output will be completely stable. Over the whole range of rpm the specific output is constant.

• More advantages
  • 100 % regrind possible
  • Smaller extruder size
  • No surging
  • Shorter residence time – quicker color change

How does Helibar® do this?

• Thinner melt film and improved heattransfer
  The interaction between barrier screw and grooved barrel results in a thinner melt film. Therefore the heat from the heaterbands gets to the solid fraction easily.

• Pressure build-up in the melting zone
  Higher shear forces in a thinner melt film allow a pressure build-up in the melting zone which leads to an entirely different pressure curve. This effect is supported by gripping of the solid fraction on the groove edge. It results in a high process stability and avoids surging.

• HELIBAR® pressure curve
  The maximum pressure in the feed zone is dramatically reduced. Thus, wear on barrel and screw is strongly reduced.

• Energy efficiency
  High specific output at a low pressure level reduces the melt temperature. The energy of the heaterbands is fully used for melting the polymer. A cooling of the feed zone and a thermal separation between feed zone and plasticating zone is not needed.

  Compared to conventional extruders HELIBAR® has a much better energy use