Extrusion
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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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 business conditions change. Here are some tips to guide you to the right answer.
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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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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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Extrusion: Seven-Layer Line for All-Polyolefin Films
Macchi showed its next generation polyolefin-dedicated blown film line.
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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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Unlikely Pairing: Environmental Activist and Multinational Packaging Manufacturer See Eye to Eye on Global Plastic Waste Crisis
Both want plastics out of the natural environment. They agree that human behavior is the problem. One global firm is altering its own behavior to promote four types of recycling.
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