Polydynamics, Inc. is a global supplier of PC-based user-friendly software for simulation, analysis, design and troubleshooting of plastics extrusion and other polymer processing operations. The packages are used in over three hundred industrial sites in twenty seven countries around the world (including Canada, USA, Columbia, Brazil, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, France, Italy, Portugal, Greece, Czech Republic, Poland, Austria, UK, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Ireland, and Mexico). They are helping R&D personnel and process or design engineers at many Fortune 500 companies in the USA, like Dow Chemical in Midland, Michigan and Freeport, Texas; DuPont in Wilmington, Delaware; and other international giants like Mitsubishi Chemical in Japan and Tetrapak in Sweden. The software is also used at smaller companies like Brampton Engineering in Ontario, Canada; Plastitec Limitada in Bogota, Columbia; Hyplast in Belgium; and university-based research centres like the Department of Plastics Technology in Sweden's Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and the Rheology Laboratory at the University of St. Etienne, in France. The software is based on thirty five years of research under the leadership of Professor John Vlachopoulos at the Centre for Advanced Polymer Processing and Design (CAPPA-D), at McMaster University, in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. The research work at McMaster is sponsored by NSERC of Canada. There is considerable interaction with industry and all software products are continuously subjected to improvement and rigorous validation.
NEXTRUCAD ADVANCE, FLATCAD ADVANCE and SPIRALCAD ADVANCE will be released before the end of 2011 in cooperation with H.A.S.L. (TOKYO, JAPAN). These are based on 2.5D Hele - Shaw flow analysis with fully 3D geometry, particle tracking and other 3D features. For more information contact us.
Polydynamics is also involved in R&D and consulting projects with several corporations for process simulation, optimization, and equipment design. Wherever there are problems in polymer extrusion or other plastics processing operations, Polydynamics and its network of agents and representatives will help in finding solutions through the use of simulation software and/or rheological characterization.
Polydynamics also organizes short courses and seminars on polymer rheology and extrusion two or three times a year. Recent short courses include: Brussels (1994, 1997, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2011), Burlington (Ontario, near Toronto) (1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004), Dusseldorf (1995), Amsterdam (1996, 2000), Antwerp (1998), Melbourne (2000), Niagara Falls (Ontario) (2006), Miura (near Kamakura) Japan (2007), Valencia Spain (2008), Arnhem Netherlands (2008) . For future seminars and short courses, click here for the listing.