PART ONE How to Determine Viscosity Data Using a Slit-Die Viscometer
Using a slit-die viscometer connected to a lab extruder can generate accurate data on melt viscosity at various shear rates and temperatures, a useful QC tool in processing.
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Try This Approach to Clean Up Your Recycled Material
CO2 can be used as a totally “green” solvent to remove many kinds of contamination in recycled plastics without the need for toxic solvents.
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Extrusion: Important Polymer Melting Equations for Extrusion Processors
The more you know about what happens in a screw, the more you’ll be able to work with your supplier to optimize design.
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Kanarski to Lead Davis-Standard’s Technical Product Team
Will collaborate with suppliers and customers to evaluate market trends and capabilities, and develop technology accordingly.
Innovation, Customization & Sustainability: How Flex Films Focuses on U.S. Market
Global player in BOPET film has big plans for U.S. market with innovative products developed collaboratively with customers while paying heed to environmental concerns.
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Davis-Standard Adds James Johnson as Regional Sales Manager
‘Brings industry sales, manufacturing and adhesives experience to position.’
What You Need to Know to Get into Coextrusion
Key considerations range from determining the right extruder sizes to tooling, matching material viscosities, and lots more. Take a look.
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Extrusion: Two-Stage Screw Offers Distributive, Dissipative Mixing
New design from Davis-Standard offers outputs comparable to barrier screws at lower melt temperatures.
Understanding Viscosity in Extrusion
Both the power-law coefficient and the consistency index must be considered to calculate viscosity.
Extrusion: 'Unique' Digital Services for Film Processors
Four-module platform aims at transparent, faster and more efficient service for biax-film processors.
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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PTi Realigns Sales Team
Additions made as machine builder continues its emphasis on high-quality sheet extrusion its importance to the thermoforming process.
Extrusion: Non-Contact, Single-Sided Film, Sheet Gauge
Applications include a wide range of non-metallic film and sheet up to 200 mils.
Giving the ‘Royal’ Treatment in PET Packaging
In the U.S. for just seven years, Royal Interpack is emerging as a growing, innovative, customer-centric supplier of food packaging.
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Film/Sheet: Web Gauging Products for Sheet, Film
New series of new web-gauging product to boost film and sheet quality.
PTi Appoints Fischer Applications and Technology Manager
Aspiring account ‘followed her nose’ to plastics processing and join sheet extrusion machine builder.
SPE Extrusion Division Holding May 'Mini-Tec'
Slated for May 1-2 in Charlotte, program will feature tutorial presentations on Day 1, and advanced presentations relating to the extrusion of PET and PLA formulations on Day 2.
Under One Roof: Innovative Recycler Closes the Loop
rPlanet Earth looks to disrupt the plastics recycling industry by creating a truly sustainable, closed-loop system for recycling and reuse of post-consumer plastics, with reclaim, sheet extrusion, thermoforming and preform making all in the same plant.
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Extrusion: Terahertz Sensor for Sheet, Webs
Offers non-ionizing, non-contact on-line measurement that is said to be completely safe and capable of operating in harsh environments.
Extrusion: Compact Extruder Is Potent, Energy Efficient
Small-footprint machine reportedly uses up to 95% less energy/lb of material processed and can typically achieve dimensionally stable product within 20 min. of being turned on.
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Nordson Building New Hub for Flat Die Business
Facility will include new production equipment and workflow systems that will ‘redefine the way dies are built’ for Nordson’s EDI and Premier product lines.
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Sheet: Next-Generation System For PET
Optimized extruder, new feedblock options, and Industry 4.0 compatibility highlight new line for PET packaging sheet.
Slideshow: Extrusion 2018 Speaker Highlights
For two-and-a-half days in September, the extrusion world focused on Cleveland and the Extrusion 2018 conference and exhibit.
Bringing Science to ‘Art’ of Extrusion
Scientific Extrusion among the many topics to be explored at Extrusion 2018 Conference.