Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for producing spherical particles of at least one material, which comprises the steps: (A) preparation of a solution or dispersion of the at least one material in at least one water-miscible solvent or dispersion medium, (B) conversion of the solution or dispersion obtained in step (A) into individual portions comprising an amount of the at least one material corresponding to the amount present in the spherical particles by underwater pelletization and (C) introduction of the portions obtained in step (B) into a medium which is miscible with the solvent or dispersion medium from step (A) and in which the material used in step (A) is insoluble so that the solvent or dispersion medium used in step (A) is replaced by the medium which is miscible with the solvent or dispersion medium from step (A) and the material solidifies to form the spherical particle.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process and an apparatus for the thermal treatment of powdered or granular solid substances with gas flows (7, 16, 22, 23, 24) by means of a body (2) moved about its axis of rotation (1).

Abstract: Polyolefins are thermomechanically degraded in a twin-screw extruder without a downstream degradation apparatus, at from 300.degree. to 550.degree. C. and from 1 to 100 bar and in average residence times of the reaction mixture of from 0.5 to 10 minutes, by a process in which the pressure in the twin-screw extruder is changed periodically or aperiodically with a fluctuation of from 0.5 to 30 bar. The novel process is particularly suitable for the degradation of polypropylene.

Abstract: In a fiber composite plastic composed of plastic composition and fibers, the fibers have a pronounced fiber length distribution, in particular more than 50% by weight of the fibers have a length outside the range from 0.8.times.L to 1.2.times.L, where L is the mean (weight average) fiber length, and the mean fiber length is greater than the critical fiber length of the plastic composition/fiber system.

Abstract: A mixture of one or more pharmaceutical active compounds and one or more thermoplastic polymers is tabletted by a process in which the mixture is extruded and the still moldable extrudate is pressed to give tablets, between two belts, or a belt and a roller, which make contact in parts, rotate in opposite directions and run parallel along the contact zone, the shape-imparting indentations, which may be present in complementary pairs, being located in both or in only one of the revolving shape-imparting elements.

Abstract: Extrudable pharmaceutical mixtures are tableted by a continuous method in which the mixture is extruded and the still deformable extrudate is pressed between two rollers which are driven in opposite directions and possess depressions opposite one another in the roller shell, the form of these depressions determining the tablet shape.