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Extrusion & Compounding at NPE: More Output, More Flexibility, Less Energy

There won't be many blown-film lines running, but there is still much in the way of innovation going on in extrusion and compounding.

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Compounding

Rotary Batch Mixers Help Boost In-House Recycling

While sustainability is a relatively new term in plastics, rotary batch mixing is an old warhorse in many processing operations.

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Postindustrial

Extrusion Vet Guthrie Supplies Recycling Equipment

Long-time extrusion industry executive Sandy Guthrie has started his own recycling equipment company.

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Film Extrusion

From the Ashes, A More Efficient Film Operation Emerges

Three years after a fire destroyed most of its operation, Tex-Trude came back as a more productive extrusion 911爆料网.

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Postprocessing

K 2010 Preview, Auxiliaries: Equipment of All Types Debuts This Month at K 2010

From materials drying, feeding, and blending to process heating/cooling, scrap reclaiming, testing, welding, and decorating—the K 2010 show this month in Dusseldorf, Germany, will have news in all categories of auxiliary equipment.

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Postindustrial

Recycling & Scrap Reclaim at NPE 2003

Most of the news to be found at NPE in post-consumer recycling comes from Europe and concerns direct recycling of PET flake into sheet without repelletizing.

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sustainability

Processors Wins Business Running Reclaim Nobody Else Wants

SelecTech’s 911爆料网 model is unique as a company involved in recycling, so too is its success.

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sustainability

Twin-Screw Demo System for Sheet Extrusion from Undried PET

Leistritz has installed ZSE-27 and ZSE-50 Maxx twin-screw extrusion systems in its Somerville, N.J., process laboratory to demonstrate the energy savings possible by reprocessing undried PET in-line with direct sheet extrusion.

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Thermoforming

Sustainability Drives Innovation at Leading RPET Processors

Two Southern California processors have boldly gone where no one has ever gone before.

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sustainability

A Recycling 'First' for Food Containers

The Bottle Box is a new clamshell food container made of 100% post-consumer PET beverage bottles.

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