Extrusion

Materials

BOPET Films' Growth Prospects Look Very Good

Market demand to be driven by significant use in both packaging and technical applications.

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polyolefins

Treofan Simplifies Laminate Structure; Boosts Sealing Performance of BOPP Films

ExxonMobil’s Vistamaxx featured in new five-layer BOPP Film.

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Packaging

Do You Do Color Right?

This supplement is here to help.

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Additives

How This Processor Does Color Right

A film extruder shares some of its insights.

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Avoid These Three Mistakes to Get the Most from Color

Here are the key misconceptions and common practices that keep processors from reaching the heights of coloring proficiency. Find out if you’re stumbling into these pitfalls, and learn how and why you should swerve around them

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K 2016 Preview: Extrusion and Compounding

Regardless of what you might be extruding, the themes of speed and flexibility will loom large in extrusion at the giant show.

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Commodity Resins

Are You Ready for K 2016?

We鈥檝e got you covered with five feature stories and an entire new-products section devoted to the October show in Dusseldorf.

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Postconsumer

July’s Index—45.9

Plants with 50-99 employees expand for eighth straight month.

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plant tour

Profile Extruder Sees the Light

Rotuba exited the sheet 911爆料网 to focus on custom profiles for LED light fixtures. It now ranks as North America’s leading profile extruder in this burgeoning market.

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EXTRUSION: Is Head Pressure Sapping Your Extruder’s Strength?

A redesign of all of the flow paths between the end of the barrel and die may be in order.

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Blending & Dosing