Exploring the: Compounding Zone
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- Veteran Compounder Is Now Sold on Twins
- Since 1967, FD Plastics in Leominster, Mass., has been supplying processors with color concentrates made with single-screw extruders.
Article Published: 9/29/2011
- New/Old Player in Compounding Machines
- Two machine builders, each with more than 60 years’ experience in compounding, have united to furnish continuous mixing equipment.
Article Published: 9/29/2011
- Avoid Those Devilish ‘Angel Hairs’
- Angel hairs wreak havoc on plastics processing: clogging filters, plugging conveying lines, causing feed problems at the blender, and jamming up machine throats. Here's how to prevent their formation.
Article Published: 8/23/2011
- Compounder’s Low Headroom Doesn’t Stunt Its Growth
- With careful planning and the use of bulk-bag discharging and conveying equipment, The Plastics Group of America was able to accommodate its latest expansion on one level of its 60,000-ft² building.
Article Published: 7/27/2011
- Americhem Expands in North Carolina
- Americhem, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, is building a new manufacturing “campus” in Liberty, N.C., near Greensboro.
Article Published: 7/27/2011
- Long-Fiber PP Can Be Colored, FR and Tough
- Start-up company developing rooftop solar panels based on PP long-fiber thermoplastic (LFT) composites.
Article Published: 6/27/2011
- Biopolymers Add Something to Acrylics
- Arkema blend consisting of 20% biopolymer doubles the melt flow of straight acrylic; 30% triples it.
Article Published: 6/27/2011
- A Pioneer in ‘Clean Compounding’
- When Plastics Color Corp., based in Calumet City, Ill., established a new compounding plant in Southern California, the firm decided this couldn’t be an ordinary color/additive masterbatch facility.
Article Published: 6/27/2011
- Energy Miser: Reducing Compressed-Air Usage
- Many manufacturing sites operate on the assumption that compressed air is free. Usage is totally uncontrolled, and open air lines cost real money.
Article Published: 6/27/2011
- Look Before You Leap: When Direct Extrusion Makes Sense
- The process offers great opportunities to extrude a better product at less cost, but it’s not for everyone. The formulation, product mix, and anticipated volumes must be carefully assessed to determine whether DE is the preferred manufacturing metho...
Article Published: 6/27/2011
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