EXTRUSION: Higher-Pressure Gas Injection For Microcellular Foams

Applicable to extrusion and blow molding operations.
New Product Announcements Published: 4/29/2013

EXTRUSION: New Cast Film & Sheet Lines

SML rolled out three new products at its Innovation Days 2012 open house, held late last year at its headquarters in Austria (U.S. office in Ft.
New Product Announcements Published: 2/26/2013

EXTRUSION: Device Captures Airborne Particles From Blown Film Extrusion

Future Design Inc., Mississauga, Ont., has been awarded a patent on its Saturn Evacuation System (SES), which reduces airborne contamination that fills the plant during the blown film process.
New Product Announcements Published: 1/29/2013

AUXILIARIES: Blenders Handle Difficult Scrap

Two new solutions from Conair, Cranberry Township, Pa., are designed for use with its TrueBlend line of blenders to allow feeding thin, flaky regrind without repelletizing.
New Product Announcements Published: 12/28/2012

EXTRUSION: Pelletizer Facilitates In-House Recycling

New SB Series pelletizers from Milacron, Batavia, Ohio, let molders pelletize scrap themselves, eliminating many problems associated with third-party handling and processing of regrind.
New Product Announcements Published: 11/3/2012

EXTRUSION: Adjust Chill-Roll Height with a Simple Ratchet

A ratchet-activated height-adjustment device raises and lowers the cooling and polishing rolls relative to the sheet die.
New Product Announcements Published: 11/3/2012

EXTRUSION: Optical Non-Contact Sensor For Sheet, Thick-Film

New OptiMike OM190 optical micrometer from NDC, Irwindale, Calif., provides direct, non-contacting, single-sided thickness measurement for sheet, foam, and thick films.
New Product Announcements Published: 10/1/2012

EXTRUSION: Space-Saving Coex Lines For Window Profiles

In response to a trend to use more recycled materials and fillers in window-profile extrusion, new coextrusion systems from KraussMaffei Berstorff, Florence, Ky., are designed with flexibility and space savings in mind.
New Product Announcements Published: 10/1/2012

EXTRUSION: Extruder Minimizes Heat Losses And Air Currents in Process Area

New Backdraft extruder from American Kuhne, Ashaway, R.I., has a reverse-air cooling system suited especially to blown film that removes heat and undesireable air currents from the extrusion area for optimum bubble stability while also improving ene...
New Product Announcements Published: 8/28/2012

EXTRUSION: Novel Melt Pump Feeds Two Die Heads from One Extruder

The twin-outlet Extrex GPD pump from Maag, Charlotte, N.C., reportedly simplifies pipe and profile coextrusion and foaming applications by allowing processors to use just one extruder to feed two die assemblies.
New Product Announcements Published: 8/28/2012