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For some standard applications, incorporating fillers, colors, and other additives into a resin can be as easy as pre-blending all the ingredients together and loading them into a single-screw extruder hopper for strand pelletizing. As requirements become more stringent, the compounding process becomes more interesting, involved, and specialized. Many types of compounding machines and mixers are available, and satisfactory compounds can be produced on most of them. While individual operator preference plays a major role, certain machines are more flexible and do a better job than others on specific compounds.