Got a misaligned production machinery on your hands? We can help you! At Canadian Feed Screws, we have the expertise to carry out a flawless laser bore alignment on-site! We understand that proper alignment of your machines is a key factor in ensuring optimal performance of your equipment. We also know that when your machinery and equipment perform well, you can manufacture the highest quality product without incurring loss-inducing downtimes. 

Consequences of Misalignment 

Any single screw extruder will be made up of four essential components, which include feed throat, gearbox, feed screw and barrel. When the center of the screw is properly aligned with the center of the thrust shaft at the gearbox, your machine runs at optimum efficiency. However, if these are not perfectly aligned, the screw and the barrel might clash against each other, leading to issues such as:

• A decrease in through-put
• Excessive screw and barrel wear 
• Uneven mixing 
• Back-flighting 
• Surging 
• Uneven melting point temperatures 
• Flexing of the screw 
• Breakage of the screw 

Any of these issues can lead to machinery breakdown, which itself can result in hours of productivity loss. An undesirable scenario for any business. However, you don’t have to worry about such a scenario with us!

Expert Laser Bore Alignment at Your Service

Though an issue, misalignment can be easily fixed. We carry out on-site alignment of your machinery. Our technicians can help you align both new as well as repaired screws. If you get a new screw and barrel and need them aligned to your machine, we will do it for you. Or if you want a realignment done for the reattachment of repaired screws and barrels, we can do that too! 

Our laser alignment system is fast, accurate and precise. To get started, we place our laser alignment system on your machine’s gearbox shaft and adjust it until it coincides with the thrust shaft’s centerline. Then a laser beam passes along the length of the barrel as light-sensitive targets detect it to display accurate measurement data. The whole process is simple, streamlined and highly effective. Get in touch with us to get access to advanced on-site laser bore alignment services.