Film Extrusion
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: High-Output Stretch Film Line
New ‘hands-free’ die control is said to permit fast and easy product changes.
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Extrusion: Flexible Coex Line for Barrier, Non-Barrier Structures
System can run a range of seven-layer productss, from high-barrier to all-polyolefin.
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Extrusion: Modular Control System for Blown Film
System can be installed on new line or on a retrofit basis to improve quality and cut resin costs.
Read MoreOf 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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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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Plastics Pioneers Elect Three New Members
Plastics industry vets honored at fall meeting of PPA.
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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.
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