Exploring the: PET Processing - Extrusion Zone
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- Infrared Crystallizes and Dries PET Faster and with Less Energy
- In the search for ways to dry hygroscopic resins faster and more efficiently, infrared energy is an approach that many dryer makers find intriguing and potentially promising.
Article Published: 7/1/2007
- Recycled PET/PE Alloys Show Promise In Monofilament, Pallets, Pipe
- Alloys of polyethylene and recycled PET were the highlight of the annual SPE Global Plastics Environmental Conference (GPEC) in Detroit in February.
Article Published: 5/1/2004
- NPE 2000 News Wrap-Up: Extrusion
- At this year’s NPE, new processes to put wood flour into plastic were virtually everywhere—several even start with undried flour.
Article Published: 3/23/2004
- NPE News Wrap-Up: Extrusion
- Gearless extrusion, cryogenic profile calibration, wireless data communications, and automatic start-up of blown film lines are just a few of the new ways to raise efficiency and output that were highlighted at NPE.
Article Published: 8/1/2003
- How to Fix Vent-Flow Problems
- Putting one or two vents between the feed throat and die is a good way to remove moisture, trapped air, and other volatiles from melted plastic as it moves through an extruder.
Article Published: 1/1/2002
- Extrusion (K 2001 Preview)
- Probably the most intriguing news in extrusion at K 2001 will be a novel way to extrude clear film that differs from standard blown and cast methods.
Article Published: 9/1/2001
- Foamed PET Sheet Tackles New Markets
- Perpetually in its infancy, PET foam sheet has been a hard sell for packaging producers over nearly a decade. It found successful niches in thermoformed ovenable bakery trays, meat trays, and reheatable dinner trays for home delivery to disabl...
Article Published: 6/1/2001
- PET Recycling Line Crystallizes While Chopping
- A new method of recycling PET into pellets or directly into extruded sheet is said to save time and energy by combining crystallizing and drying with size reduction in one piece of equipment.
Article Published: 8/1/1999
- Extruding
- Where's the extruder?" was the comment often heard about the most unusual extrusion exhibit at K'98, a screwless, cone-shaped device that can extrude two or more melt streams.
Article Published: 1/1/1999
