For more than 95 Years, we have been providing injection & extrusion repair services. Santa Fe Machine repairs all sizes of Injection Molding and Extrusion processing parts including:
- Tie Bars
- Toggles
- Stub Screw Drive Ends
- Injection Cylinder re-chromes
- Screw re-chromes
- Barrel re-lines with Bi-Metallic Inlay
- Platen repairs
- Resurface Barrel and End Cap Faces to one another
When we work with our customers, we don’t stop at creating customized parts. We include personal attention with every part we make including:
- Repairs to any worn surface on any metallic part
- On-site inspections
- 24/7 emergency repair service
- Removal of broken valves
- Rapid turnaround on worn parts
- Pressing screws from barrels that have seized together
24/7 Emergency Injection & Extrusion Repair Services
We offer around the clock repair services to ensure your press is back up and running.
With nearly a century of serving the manufacturing industry, we are ready to apply our expertise to your repair needs no matter how great or small.
]]>Santa Fe Machine Works offers a complete selection of valves and end caps manufactured from a variety of steels and alloys that work most efficiently for chosen processes.
We examine how your machinery is running to put together a package to enhance optimal efficiency. We know how to mix and match the best valve design per screw specifications. We carefully choose our suppliers in our commitment to the same level of quality and prompt service we expect of ourselves.
We are proud to offer the highest quality end caps and valves created from corrosion and wear-resistant alloys that withstand high abrasion production environments including:
- 3-Piece Valves
- 4-Piece Valves
- Smear Tips
- End Caps
- Ball Check Valves
- OEM Tips
All our valves and end caps are custom made. With tolerances that are held closer than OEM specifications, they are made from premium tool steels, are heat treated and have highly polished inner surfaces.
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At Santa Fe Machine Works, we guarantee every custom screw we make is the highest quality you’ll find anywhere. Some customers have even told us our screws look pretty. We know that might sound silly, but we have a lot of pride in our reputation of taking that extra step to make our products exceptional.
Our process begins by determining our customers exact specifications. With your complete machine processing information, our experienced team is then ready to lead you through various applications and materials to create the most efficient match for your needs.
We identify opportunities for enhanced performance. When our customers have issues with difficult extrusion or injection materials, we have several solutions.
If there is premature wear, we know what to look for. If machinery is running slow or having regular breakdowns, we know where to troubleshoot. If our customer will benefit, we have the expertise to reverse-engineer any existing part. With the multitude of specialized screws we can create, offering our customers the best options is our first priority. In order to define the perfect part, we take the time to fully understand our customers process, current machinery, materials, experiences and output expectations.
With our customers comprehensive information we can offer several solutions including:
- Duplicate existing screw design if desired
- Enhancing screw substrate and surface treatments to eliminate premature wear
- Upgraded screw profiles achieve proper mix, melt quality and output rates for both injection and extrusion screws.
- Superior mixing and reduced cycle times with Posi-Melt technology for injection molding screws
Your Project Stays On Time | High Quality | High Warranty
For over 20 years, SFM has been one of the largest distributors of High-Performance Bimetallic Barrels in North America.
With Santa Fe Machine Works, our customers can rely on a complete package. Your project always stays in-house where exact specifications are determined and carefully adhered to. Our one-stop-shop approach offers substantial cost savings by eliminating the need to locate corresponding components to complete your projects. Our expertise in choosing only the most dependable manufacturing partners saves our customers valuable time.
Our most popular extrusion and injection barrels are available with a multitude of inlays depending on your resins.
We offer comprehensive on-site inspections to determine the exact barrel linings for your process. In addition, we have the capability to reline old barrels.
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Santa Fe Machine educates our customers on how to optimize their Extrusion processes & extend the life of their screws & barrels. Decades of experience in extrusion screw design allows us to work with every kind of resin/polymer, focusing on screws for premium color mixes with the most efficient compounding and throughput.
Highest Quality Parts for Extrusion Screws
At Santa Fe Machine Works, we’re known for offering the highest quality parts with a variety of extrusion screw solutions including:
- Minimum screw diameter 1/2”OD X 12” long
- Maximum screw diameter 12”OD X 242 long
- Carefully engineered screw geometry to match the exact needs of your process.
- High throughput, supreme mix and melt quality for optimum component life.
- Screw and barrel solutions for new processes and products.
- Screw recovery solutions for high performance and multiple applications.
- Quality inspections with every step of the process to create customized parts specific to our customers demands.
Injection Screw Design For Optimum Mix and Reduced Cycle Times
With nearly a century of experience, we know general purpose profile and substrate screws rarely meet the demands of ever changing polymers & resins. Using GP screws in state-of-the-art machinery is like putting cheap tires on a fine race car.
To compliment our high performance injection screw designs, we are proud to offer Posi-Melt Technology. With a superior mix that produces 100% true vibrant color, Posi-Melt applications meet the most demanding melt quality and cycle times in the industry.
Posi-Melt Injection Screw Design
Injection screw design is based on several factors that are determined in our first consultation. We meet and exceed our customers expectations by offering:
- Assistance with complicated upsize and downsize packages.
- L.I.M. (Liquid Injection Molding) conversion packages.
- M.I.M. (Metal Injection Molding) conversion packages.
- Thermoset conversion packages offered.
- Minimum 1/2” O.D. to a maximum 12” O.D. screws.
- Carefully engineered screw geometry to match the exact needs of your process.
- Reduced cycle times and longer machine life.
- Pairing of base materials and surface treatments to maximize screw life.
- Screw recovery solutions for high performance and multiple applications.
- Quality inspections with every step of the process to create customized parts specific to our customers demands.
- Expertly manufactured parts that exceed OEM tolerances.
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Unlike other screen changers that introduce an air bubble into the melt stream, or even require the extruder to be shut down, the DB filters out contaminants and provides a means for replacing dirty filters while maintaining a continuous melt flow.
Features
- Continuous filtration
- Dual breaker plates
- Precision machining
- Automated controls
- One-sided changing
- Drip pan
- FEA design
- Integrated guards
Benefits
- No interruption in melt flow means less scrapped material and reduces the chance of cavitation
- Filtration continues while screens are being replaced
Eliminates the need for seals - Day to day operation requires little training
- Keeps hydraulic and electrical components clean
- Simplifies polymer removal
- Ensures customers safety while keeping costs lower
- Protects customer from pinch, crush and burn
- injuries
Applications
- Sheet
- Blown film
- Wire and cable
- Profile extruding
- Pipe
- Tubing
- Pelletizing
- Reclaim/Recycling
Kolcor Manual Screen Changers Simple by Design
With fewer parts to wear out over time, our manual screen changers are simple, reliable, and cost-effective in the long run.
Among their many benefits, Kolcor manual screen changers:
- Are perfect for extrusion lines that are typically shut down for something other than a screen change
- Can be easily incorporated into your extrusion line
- Let you make optimum use of available space — they can be connected to your extruder, taking up little of your valuable floor space, or configured to optimize the use of the space available.
- Require minimal maintenance and offer minimal down-time
- Feature bolt through connection to OEM standards
- Keep capitalization and operating costs low
Kolcor’s hydraulic screen changer provides filtration of most polymers with minimal disruption during a screen change.
- Kolcor’s roll out guards cannot swing down out of control, which effectively eliminates the potential for operator injury.
- Better sealing: the ultimate challenge for screen changers is solved with our patented pressure compensated spring seal
- Operator safety: Hydraulic screen changer features a standard remote operator station on a 10′ lead that moves the operator away from the unit during a screen change.
Kolcor’s Hydraulic Screen Changer offers a cost-effective solution for maintaining or improving through-put and product quality; and helps you overcome the challenges to your productivity, including:
Bolt Through Connection
Utilizing bolt through connection to OEM standards, our screen changer can be connected to your extruder, taking up a minimum amount of your valuable floor space. Other adaptation configurations are available, all designed to optimize the use of the space available.
Pre-Wired and Fully Assembled
Screw Pull Through
Single-Zone Temperature Control
Optional Slide Plate Heating, Available in One- and Two-Zone Configurations
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Designed to reach high extruded material linear speeds and ensure dimensional stability, with a reduction in water and electricity consumption up to 50%.
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