Chris Rauwendaal, president of Rauwendaal Extrusion Engineering, Inc., (REE, Inc), has experience in a wide range of extrusion operations, including fiber spinning, film, sheet, tubing, medical tubing, pipe and profile extrusion, co-extrusion, and reactive extrusion. Rauwendaal holds several patents in the field of polymer processing. He has worked on both practical and theoretical problems, such as screw and die design, troubleshooting, modeling and computer simulation, material analysis, and failure analysis.

• Different Types of ExtrudersExtruder HardwareInstrumentation and ControlFundamental PrinciplesImportant Polymer PropertiesFunctional Process AnalysisExtruder Screw DesignDie DesignTwin Screw ExtrudersTroubleshooting ExtrudersModeling and Simulation of the Extrusion Process.