Extrusion
Stop Black Specks!
Black specks in film or sheet–especially in light-colored or clear plastics–lead to scrap, unscheduled shutdowns, and dissatisfied customers.
Read MoreAmputations and Dust Hazards Draw OSHA's Attention
Last month, the Society of the Plastics Industry, Washington, D.C., alerted members to two new occupational safety initiatives by federal agencies.
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More Filler, Less Resin: Bag Films Load Up to Cut Costs
Filler isn’t a bad word in T-shirt bags and can liners any more.
Read MoreTechnoplast Moves To Western Pa.
Technoplast International Inc., the Austrian maker of downstream cooling and calibration equipment for PVC profiles, recently moved its U.S. office from Bridgeport, N.J. to Cranberry, Pa., near Pittsburgh.
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Are Networked Process Sensors In Your Future?
The latest fashion in machine controls is to network temperature and pressure sensors with fieldbus protocols for faster, more accurate data acquisition, built-in sensor diagnostics, and better machine uptime.
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Novel Vacuum Calibrators Raise Sheet Output and Quality
Flat vacuum-calibrator plates, typically used to extrude hollow profile sheet, are showing up in new forms and new uses.
Read MoreNew Extrusion Process Recycles Food-Grade PET
PTP Plastic Technologies and Products bv in Prague, Czech Republic, seeks to license a reactive extrusion process to upgrade clean post-consumer PET bottle flake into food-grade PET for new bottles or film.
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NPE 2006 News Wrap-Up: Extrusion
NPE 2006 presented a bevy of features to make film, sheet, pipe, and profile extrusion more efficient.
Read MoreCorn-based Biopolymers Make News
Recent news testifies to growing momentum for biopolymers derived from corn by bacterial fermentation: --As reported on p. 22, DuPont Co., Wilmington, Del., is developing engineering thermoplastics and TPEs derived in part from fermented corn sugar. --Mazda Motor Corp., Tokyo, and a Japanese consortium of other companies, universities, and research institutes developed a heat-resistant plastic consisting of 88% corn-based polylactic acid (PLA) and 12% petroleum-derived materials.
Read MoreGeorgia Gulf to Buy Royal Group
Georgia Gulf Corp. in Atlanta, the third largest PVC producer in North America, agreed in mid-June to buy Royal Group Technologies Ltd., Woodbridge, Ont., a major producer of PVC building products, for $1.6 billion.
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