Exploring the: Wood & Natural Fiber Compounds Zone
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- Purified Cellulose Fibers Show Promise In Reinforced Thermoplastics
- Purified cellulose fibers could be the next lightweight reinforcements for thermoplastics.
Article Published: 3/24/2004
- NPE 2000 News Wrap-Up: Compounding
- Compounding news at NPE included a wealth of new batch and continuous machines to mix in high loadings of wood flour, glass fiber, carbon black, and more exotic fillers.
Article Published: 3/23/2004
- 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 Newsfinder: Compounding and Mixing
- For the second straight NPE show, the focus in compounding is on twin-screw machines that deliver more speed and torque—thus more output—than ever before. No fewer than six suppliers of twin-screw compounders are showing such machines. There’s somet...
Article Published: 3/23/2004
- NPE Newsfinder: Extrusion
- NPE will show higher outputs of practically everything, as advances in grooved feeds, servo drives, screw torque, mixing screws, dies, and downstream cooling, cutting, and handling make everything run faster.
Article Published: 3/22/2004
- Wood Tubes Close-Up
- Hollow tubing with a high loading of wood fiber is one of the newest products—and one of the trickiest—in the booming business of wood-filled thermoplastic extrusion.
Article Published: 3/22/2004
- Family Lumber Business Turns To Plastics
- Five years ago, Quality Wood Treating in Prairie Du Chien, Wis., was a 30-year-old family lumber business and one of the largest wood pressure-treaters in the country.
Article Published: 3/1/2004
- NPE News Wrap-Up: Compounding
- For nano-, long-glass, and wood composites, exhibitors presented new systems with four screws, tandem twin-screws, and twin-plus-single-screw combinations
Article Published: 9/1/2003
- Plastics a Carpenter Could Love
- Jim Rock has tried to put sawdust into plastics off and on for 20 years, long before wood composites became fashionable.
Article Published: 8/1/2003
- Twin-Screws & Kneaders Pack More Muscle
- This K show demonstrated the continuing evolution toward higher torque, screw speed, and throughput rates in twin-screw compounders. There were also new developments for reducing wear when processing filled compounds and new processes available for ...
Article Published: 1/1/2002
