For more than 30 years, Glycon has focused on helping our customers to become better, more efficient processors. Our current family of advanced technologies are all designed specifically to improve throughput, increase quality, reduce scrap and streamline processing. Whether your application is simple or complex, we can help improve your machine efficiency, part quality and reliability.

Originally known as Great Lakes Feedscrews, Glycon was founded with the specific objective to provide service to the automotive plastics molding industry for melttrain components. This service-oriented approach was well received by custom molders and original equipment manufacturers throughout the plastics industry.

With the advent of "engineering resins" in the late 1970s, wear resistance requirements became more demanding. Problems such as accelerated deterioration of screws and barrels due to abrasive and/or corrosive attack required immediate solutions. Glycon provided those solutions.

In the 1980s, as polymers became even more sophisticated, we introduced the first program to utilize computerized melt simulation and interpretation in the design process of high-performance screws used with specific engineering resins in injection molding.

In the 1990s, Glycon gained national attention as a problem solver by working closely with nationally recognized material suppliers, machine suppliers, and automotive partners to overcome major splay problems that threatened to shut down a new auto assembly line. Glycon also stepped up product-development efforts and was awarded patents on a very effective "quick shut-off non-return valve" (QSO®), an excellent mixing screw (UniMix™).

As we look to the future, we still view ourselves as problem solvers, seeking unique solutions to special challenges. At the same time, Glycon is committed to making high performance affordable by producing a family of products that allow molders and extruders to select a standard feed screw that more exactly meets their application requirements. You don't pay extra for high performance with Glycon.