With the hot die, the extrudate can be reliably processed into pellets or granules with one or more knives in direct contact with the die plate. Both wet and melt extrudates can be processed. The number of knives used and the speed setting allow the production of pellet lengths or pellet sizes between 0.5 to 10 mm.

The hot cutter is controlled by means of an integrated potentiometer or optionally directly via the control system of the Three-Tec extruder. An optional housing is available for the hot cutter.

• Compact design
• Pellet length 0.1 to 10 mm
• Retrofittable
• Very brittle extrudates can be cut, since the extrudate strand is still warm and thus plastic and too short to break
• Since the cut extrudates are still plastic, they can be directly formed into perfect spherical extrudates

The pelletizer from Three-Tec can be used to process strands into pellets or granules. The speed of the feed roller and the cutter are independently adjustable. This allows the extrudate feed to be perfectly matched to the extrudate and the pellet length or pellet size to be adjusted between 0.5 and 10 mm during processing.

The pelletizer has an integrated control system including a touch panel for user-friendly operation, or can be integrated into a higher-level system via an interface. Depending on the application, rotary knives with different numbers of blades, or different materials are used. The design of the cutting edge enables easy pelletizing of soft as well as hard extrudates.

The compact design allows the instrument to be placed in an isolator or in a laboratory environment with limited space.