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Clear Your Calendars for Plastics Technology 'Tech Days'
Beginning Oct. 8, we will be bringing exclusive, live, online technical content on a wide range of processing topics that you can access for free.
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How and Where Twin-Screw Extruders Fit in Recycling
When utilized in a thoughtful way, the corotating intermeshing twin-screw extruder can transform recycled materials into value-added products and parts. Here’s what you need to know, and some real-world examples of the technology deployed for both post-industrial and post-consumer recycling.
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Reactive Extrusion: Industry Icons Impart Their Insights
Three distinguished experts in the area of reactive extrusion shed some light on this process.
Why It's Crucial to Manage Melt-Temperature in a Twin-Screw Compounding Extruder
Managing and controlling melt temperature and degradation in a corotating compounding twin is critical to achieve process optimization. For compounders, it also greatly influences the ability of their molding and extrusion customers to make high-quality parts. Here are the results of research that illustrate this.
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Compounding: Part 2 of 2 Demystifying Devolatilization
Here are some simple tools to help monitor and optimize your devolatilization process.
Compounding: Part 1 of 2: Demystifying Devolatilization
Very little has been written about this critical topic, and most of what has been published is theoretical. Here’s some practical guidance to help you better understand the process and improve your operation.
Strand Pelletizing: Follow These Steps to Determine Your Water Bath Length
Use heat-transfer equations as a shortcut to get you in the ballpark of how long your pelletizing water bath should be.
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Compounding: Revamped Line of Compounding Twins
Third-generation iMAXX twins are easier to clean and maintain, and are more energy efficient to boot.
Compounding: Quick-Color-Change Lab Twin
Throughout the exhibit, KraussMaffei ran nine different liquid colors, changing at the push of a button, to demonstrate time- and process-saving technology.
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Rogers Named President of KraussMaffei Corp.
Twenty-year vet has worked for various industrial firms in his career.
ENTEK Expands Customer Support Department
Ex GM, H-P technical lead Darla Bulmer hired to head up department for supplier of compounding extruders.
The Extrusion 2019 Conference: Presenting Solutions in Compounding
Take a look at what you will learn in the compounding sessions of the industry leading technical conference devoted to extrusion.
Compounding: Strand Pelletizers Improve Quality, Ease Handling
Dual-bearing strand pelletizers re-engineered based on field experience and current market demands.
K 2019 Preview: Green's the Theme in Extrusion & Compounding
Themes of sustainability and the Circular Economy will be visible at the booths of many suppliers of extrusion and compounding equipment—film, in particular.
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Maag Americas Names Baumann V.P., G.M.
Machinery vet to head up sales of filters, pumps, pelletizers and pulverizers.
KraussMaffei Launches Chinese-Made All-Electric Injection Machines, Twin-Screw Extruders and Robotics Line at Chinaplas 2019
The products, which are targeting the local market and export, will be supported by a new manufacturing site that broke ground in in Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province in March.
Extruder Degassing: Is a Central System Right for You?
Centralization vacuum pumps have been used for many decades, most widely used in packaging. For extruder degassing the technology can be useful when several production lines are operated in parallel
Compounding: Twin Screw in a New Size
Designed especially for research and development as well as for production of small batch sizes.
Machine Builder Slashes Cost, Time with 'Purging Packet'
Coperion find iD Additives purging compound expedites changeovers and saves material.