Sheet Extrusion

Making Gains in the Drain Game
Sheet Extrusion

Making Gains in the Drain Game

AWD blends extrusion and thermoforming technologies with plenty of home-brewed equipment and processes to keep water away from where it isn’t supposed to be.  

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Sheet Extrusion

How to Decrease the Extrudate Temperature in Single-Screw Extruders

In many cases, decreasing the discharge temperature will improve product quality and perhaps even boost rate. Here are ways to do it.

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Film Extrusion

New Owners for Alpha Marathon

After bankruptcy, new group purchases intellectual property and forms Alpha Marathon Film Extrusion Technologies.  

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Sheet Extrusion

Banach to Lead Cast Film, Sheet, Coatings at Reifenhäuser

Flat film and sheet veteran has worked for both suppliers and processors.  

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Sheet Extrusion

PTI Seals Deal to Rep Italian Slitter Manufacturer Helios

PTi to provide slitters and related components and services to sheet processors in the U.S. and Canada under exclusive agreement.  

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Sheet Extrusion

PTi Makes Changes in Leadership Structure

Moves aimed at bolstering the future of  the sheet extrusion manufacturer.  

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NPE

Roll Stand is Compact, Flexible

Streamlined stack is joined by high-speed extruder; service cart for maintaining screws, dies and rolls; and other products.  

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Latest Sheet Extrusion News And Updates

Film Extrusion

Rohm, SABIC Combine on New Film, Sheet Unit

Called Polyvantis, new firm to be a global powerhouse in PC and PMMA extrusion.  

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Sheet Extrusion

Macro Names Anzini Tech Sales Manages for Southeast

Has worked in technical roles for leading processing companies in his career of 40+ years.  

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Thermoforming

OMV Technologies Gets New CEO

Kooper brings 33 years of experience in the industrial and consumer packaging industries to OMV--the closed-loop, turnkey, inline extrusion, thermoforming and tooling systems manufacturer.

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Film Extrusion

Davis-Standard to be Systems Integrator for Novel EDI Flat Die

Die uses motorized lip-adjustment, said to be three to five times faster than heated-bolt adjustments.

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Automation

Non-Contact Control of Flat Dies, Adapters

More automation comes to flat die technology.  

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Film Extrusion

Die-Service Cart Upgraded to Handle Screws, Chill Rolls

Processing Technologies International LLC has released its next-generation flat die servicing system, the uCAMS (Universal Cleaning Assembly and Maintenance System) Plus.

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Roll Cooling: Understand the Three Heat-Transfer Processes

Designing cooling rolls is complex, tedious and requires a lot of inputs. Getting it wrong may have a dramatic impact on productivity.

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Green’s the Theme in Extrusion/Compounding

The drive toward circular economy is requiring processors to make more use of PCR. Machine builders at K—across all extrusion processes—will be highlighting innovations to help them do just that.

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Minimize Sheet Gauge Variation by Roll Design

‘Hour-glass’ sheet gauge can be avoided through a reverse-bending roll design that is out of patent and freely available.

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Sheet Extrusion

Understanding Roll Deflection in Sheet Processing

Because of roll deflection, sheet stacks made for PS don’t work nearly as well with PP. One solution is to try a top roll that bends in the opposite direction.

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How to Select the Right Cooling Stack for Sheet

First, remember there is no universal cooling-roll stack. And be sure to take into account the specific heat of the polymer you are processing.  

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Sheet Extrusion

PPEs Are Here to Stay: Is Your Sheet Line Ready?

Follow these tips to evaluate your sheet extrusion lines to find out if you can expand into this market.

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