Twin Screw Extruder for Lab Setting Tender in USA - 43202301

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Country: USA

Summary: Twin Screw Extruder for Lab Setting

Deadline: 18 Jun 2020

Posting Date: 04 Jun 2020

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Notice Type: Tender

TOT Ref.No.: 43202301

Document Ref. No.: 1005007

Competition: ICB

Financier: Self Financed

Purchaser Ownership: -

Tender Value: Refer Document

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Twin Screw Extruder for Lab Setting
Active Contract Opportunity
Notice ID : 1005007
Related Notice
Department/Ind. Agency : AGRICULTURE, DEPARTMENT OF
Sub-tier : ANIMAL AND PLANT HEALTH INSPECTION SERVICE
Office : USDA APHIS MRPBS
General Information
Contract Opportunity Type: Sources Sought (Original)
All Dates/Times are: (UTC-05:00) CENTRAL STANDARD TIME, CHICAGO, USA
Original Published Date: Jun 03, 2020 01:28 pm CDT
Original Response Date: Jun 18, 2020 12:00 pm CDT
Inactive Policy: Manual
Original Inactive Date: Sep 15, 2020
Initiative: None
Classification
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Product Service Code:
NAICS Code: 333241 - Food Product Machinery Manufacturing
Place of Performance: Buzzards Bay, MA 02542-1308 USA
Description
Sources-Sought Notice
Background:The U.S. Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Plant Protection and Quarantine (PPQ) Program seeks a small, twin-screw extruder for use in a laboratory setting at Otis Joint Base Cape Cod, MA. It will be used in support of the development of an artificial diet for the invasive tree pest Emerald Ash Borer, Agrilus planipennis (EAB). Development of an artificial diet is a critical step in allowing the EAB biocontrol program to meet their insect rearing goals year around and remove the dependency on natural food sources that are difficult to obtain in the winter months.
The EAB artificial diet appears to be most suitable when it is thin, dry, and tough in texture, simulating the inner bark of an ash tree where EAB typically feeds. Studies demonstrated that EAB larvae die or develop poorly with a diet containing more than 55% moisture, and that the optimal moisture content for rearing EAB larvae is 48 50%. Microbial growth is inhibited at such a low level of moisture. Despite many attempts, PPQ has not been able to roll out or press low-moisture diet into a thin sheet with a leathery texture, which our research predicts are the most suitable properties for rearing EAB larvae.
The twin-screw extruder must be capable of mixing and extruding tough, dough-like products into a variety of forms and textures, critical for EAB diet production. In addition to controlling moisture level and texture, the extruder must enable manipulation of nutrients and bulking agents in the diet for research purposes and produce it at the desired moisture level. The extruder must also be capable of producing a specialized diet for the adults in sheets less than one mm thick, simulating the form of their natural ash-leaf food, and allow operation by a single person.
The twin-screw extruder must:
Allow production of a low-moisture diet at the smaller, non-commercial-scale quantities required for research and development; Have customizable steel, co-rotating screw shafts. This is...

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