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.

We Identify Opportunities For Enhanced Performance

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.

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.

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’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:

The WXB Gravimetric Batch Blender includes a fully integrated Loss-in-Weight mix chamber for all extrusion processes.

• Automate material usage control for all extrusion processes
• Raw material savings up to 10%
• Return on investment within 8-12 months

Integrated Blending & Extrusion Control

• Maguire’s proven WXB Gravimetric batch blending technology combined with comprehensive loss-in-weight control.
• Batch blending from 2 – 12 materials with dispense accuracy of +/- 0.1% on a 1% setting.
• Integrated Loss-in-Weight control monitoring live consumption rate to an extruder and updating process rate every second.

Maguire + Syncro Syntrol Control

• Maguire + Syncro specialist extrusion control for every type of extrusion process.
• Syntrol touchscreen allows quick and easy setup of extrusion process.
• Easily set process parameters like gram/meter, micron and layer ratios.

Key Benefits of Extrusion Control

• Overall raw materials savings of up to 10% compared to manual regulation.
• Reduced start-up material wastage & changeover scrap.
• Achieve faster startup times.
• Automatically regulate extruder and haul-off speeds to always be on target.
• Eliminate process variations due to screen pack, voltage fluctuations and MFI differences.
• Document clearly materials usage and process parameters for quality, process and cost control.
• Return on investment within 6 months.
• Fast payback by reduced material usage, production scrap, manual intervention and increased productivity.
• Optimize process from constant extrusion control.

Solutions for Extrusion Processes

• Suited to continuous extrusion processes for mono and co-extrusion processes.
• Applications include cable, cast film, blown film, sheet, pipe, tube & profile extrusion.

Maguire+Syncro Control Flexibility

• Detailed control of all materials settings, layer ratio control, & extrusion control.
• Controller allows effective control for mono and co-ex processes, managed from 1 HMI.

Expandable & Modular

• The WXB control is expandable and can be simply integrated with further downstream controls for automatic gauging and process control.
• WXB extrusion control module can easily be retrofitted with other modular components from Maguire + Syncro including air rings, IBC control, Gauging, and in-line recycling.

The LIW Loss-in-Weight hopper is suited to all extrusion processes.

• Automate material usage control for all extrusion processes
• Return on investment within 6 months
• Raw material savings up to 10%

Loss in Weight Control

• Comprehensive loss-in-weight control, monitoring live consumption rate to an extruder and updating process rate every second.
• The LIW hopper is suspended on a pair of highly accurate load cells.
• Sized according to throughput.
• Throughput of line is fully automatic and requires no user intervention.

Maguire + Syncro Syntrol Control

• Maguire + Syncro specialist extrusion control for every type of extrusion process.
• Syntrol touchscreen allows quick and easy setup of extrusion process.
• Easily set process parameters like gram/meter, micron and layer ratios.

Key Benefits of Extrusion Control

• Overall raw material savings of up to 10% compared to manual regulation.
• Reduced start-up material wastage & changeover scrap.
• Achieve faster startup times.
• Automatically regulate extruder and haul-off speeds to always be on target.
• Eliminate process variations due to screen pack, voltage fluctuations and MFI differences.
• Document clearly material usage and process parameters for quality, process and cost control.
• Return on investment within 6 months.
• Fast payback by reduced material usage, production scrap, manual intervention and increased productivity.
• Optimize process from constant extrusion control.

Range of Material

• Suited to every application of free-flowing material, pellets, granules or powder.

Rapid Access

• Magnetic retainers on the hopper enclosure allow quick access to the LIW hopper.

Audible and Visual Alarms

• Alarms are activated is system is not operating withing required process conditions.

Faster-Start up Time

• Switch from manual start-up to automatic and set required output.
• No further operator involvement.

Quick Material Release

• Optional compact drain can be mounted directly below the LIW hopper.
• Rapid draining of materials.

Syntrol Extrusion Control provides full extrusion control and operates with Maguire WSB & WXB Blender series and / or LIW Loss-in-Weight Hoppers plus MGF Gravimetric Feeders – for all extrusion applications.

• Automatic extrusion control for all extrusion processes
• Easily set extrusion control targets
• Benefit from raw material savings of up to 10%

Extrusion control regulates the extrusion and haul off continuously, ensuring material usage control of the line.

Syntrol Extrusion Control manages the target setpoint of the line, controlling setpoints such as lb/hr, kg/hr, gr/m, lb/ft and micron, optimizing extruder operation and overall linespeed.

More Efficient Start-Ups & Changeovers

• Automate a line startup by simply entering target output requirements.
• Compared to manual startup, reduce startup time by up to 70%.
• Reduce startup material waste and associated material cost.

How Extrusion Control Works

• Constant updates of kg/hr, lb/hr usage every second to each extruder.
• Real time monitoring of line speed.
• Precise and automatic regulation of line target output.
• Dynamically versus manual check and adjustments significantly simplify the operator control.
• Improved control on raw material costs by immediate regulation and better materials use.

Increased Productivity

• Quicker & automated start-ups.
• Continuous line monitoring keeps the product setpoints on target – 24 hours a day.
• No drift or manual interventions.
• Benefits on improved product quality and tighter product specification.
• Typical return on investment of 3- 6 months.
• Allow for clear, direct savings in materials and production time.