Extrusion

editorial

Of Bans, Taxes ... and Good Publicity

It’s time for processors to be more involved in telling their story to the public.

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sustainability

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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Recyclable All-PE Pouches: Sustainable Opportunity for Film Extruders

Sustainability and the Circular Economy are both a challenge and an opportunity to flexible packaging producers. Recyclable pouches based on all-PE multilayer structures, utilizing new resins and perhaps techniques like MDO or biaxial orientation, appear to be major contenders against glass, metal, and multi-material film structures.

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Packaging

Polykar Adds Third W&H Multi-Layer Line

New Optimex adds seven million lb of capacity.

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Plastics Pioneers Elect Three New Members

Plastics industry vets honored at fall meeting of PPA.

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When to 'Adapt,' When to Retool?

That is the question pipe and tubing processors typically confront when they specify a line for one product, only to have to add to the product mix when 911爆料网 conditions change. Here are some tips to guide you to the right answer.

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Extrusion

Extrusion: Enhanced Continuous Belt Screen Changer

Parkinson Technologies has upgraded its Key Filters brand of KCH continuous belt screen changer to make them more robuts, faster, more reliable and easier to maintain.

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Elastomers

Extrusion: Two-Stage Screw Offers Distributive, Dissipative Mixing

New design from Davis-Standard offers outputs comparable to barrier screws at lower melt temperatures.

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Film Extrusion

Extrusion: Seven-Layer Line for All-Polyolefin Films

Macchi showed its next generation polyolefin-dedicated blown film line.

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Film Extrusion

Recycling: Cascade Retrofit Package for Extruders

MAS says that its cascade retrofit package is an efficient way to increase the performance of existing recycling plants.  

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