Equipment Rebuild & Refurbish
Equipment Rebuild & Refurbish

Rebuild Options
NFM/Welding Engineers, Inc. is world-renowned for its re-engineering and refurbishing of extrusion equipment from any OEM. The professionals at NFM can custom-design equipment and machine components to refurbish and upgrade nonfunctional or outdated processing machinery, often saving you valuable time and money.
NFM OFFERS THE FOLLOWING MACHINE REBUILDING OPTIONS:
- Complete Machine Rebuild
- Component Rebuild – Feedsections, Feed Door Assemblies, Barrels, Feedscrews, etc.
- Gearbox Evaluation & Repair
- Control Upgrades & Auxiliary Integration
Keeping your extrusion equipment in prime working condition is crucial to your productivity and profitability.
Below are just a few examples of rejuvenating well-used equipment. Use the SLIDER function to view before and after comparisons.


4.5" Rubber Extruder Rebuild:
- Complete disassembly & inspection
- Rebuilt Gearbox
- All new bearings and seals
- Gearbox run-in test
- New barrel assembly
- 4140 w/ bimetallic inlay
- Rebuilt feedsection w/ new power feed roll assembly
- New motor coupling assembly
- New feedscrew
- 4140 w/ nickel+chrome flight lands
- Paint & Reassemble
- Electrical & cooling check-out


4.5″ Plastic Extruder Rebuild:
- Complete disassembly & inspection
- New barrel assembly
- Rebuilt feedscrew
- Rebuilt gearbox
- New Control Cabinet & Control System
- Paint & Reassemble
- Electrical & cooling check-out


24″ Discharge Barrel & Breech Lock:
- Sandblast exterior, water flow test & inspect
- Disassemble breech lock and remove worn liner
- Grind ID and repair tapped holes
- Installed new nickel-boron liner
- Installed new bearing pads and shims
- Welded end flange counterbores
- Installed new hinge bushings
- Machined additional o-ring grooves for improved seal
- Machined counterbore & register
- Recut die seat on die holder
- Drilled all new locating dowels
- Water pressure tested
- Cleaned & painted


300mm Twin Screw Barrel Re-HIP:
- Originally Nitrided Bores
- Honed Barrel Bores
- HIP


24" Barrel Rebuild:
- Originally Nitrided Bores
- Honed Barrel Bores
- HIP
TEST YOUR APPLICATION WITH NFM’S PROCESS DEVELOPMENT LAB
OUR INNOVATIVE EXTRUSION TEST PILOT PLANT ALLOWS OUR CUSTOMERS TO PERFORM LAB-SCALE DEVELOPMENT AND SMALL PRODUCTION RUNS TO SIMULATE ACTUAL FIELD PRODUCTION CONDITIONS.
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