Home improvements, and especially kitchen renovations, are hot topics in lifestyle TV shows and magazines. The kitchen is considered to be the focal point of most family’s home life. A big decision is the type of counter top to install. There are natural materials, laminates, and solid man-made options. Roller Drive and Gap Control with Hollow Sha GearboxDieQua was called upon to help in the design of a machine to manufacture solid counter top material, one of the more popular choices due to it’s wear and maintenance characteristics. The design was complex, but used a concept that is relevant in a variety of extrusion and rolling forming applications. The idea was to take a liquied polymer or resin and feed it through a series of rollers that would slowly compress and cool the material u

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