Film Extrusion

Film Extrusion

Tooling: More Is Better…Layers, That Is

I can’t count the number of times I have been asked why I recommend a blown film line with 5+ layers to make 2- or 3-layer products.

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Film Extrusion

EXTRUSION & COMPOUNDING: Five-Layer Film Structures Set to Supplant Three Layers?

In blown film, equipment and material suppliers have come together to push five-layer technology into non-barrier applications previously held by three-layer films.

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K 2010 Preview, Extrusion More…Layers, Output & Quality

In most segments of extrusion technology, the word at K 2010 is more.

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Film Extrusion

Boosting Extrusion Productivity-Part II of III: Optimize Product Changeover & Purging

Extrusion processors typically run a number of different products and resins.

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Film Extrusion

Solving the Puzzle of Chinese Bags

How do the Chinese get such high quality at such low cost? They have been accused of dumping, but Chinese bag makers are mostly small mom-and-pop businesses that survive on razor-thin profit margins. Their plants and the way they run them are like nothing you’ve ever seen.

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Extrusion at NPE 2003

NPE is typically a competitive display of the biggest, most dramatic equipment machine builders can muster.

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Film Extrusion

Melt Fracture or Interfacial Instability? Different Ills Needs Different Cures

 In blown film, clarity is often considered synonymous with quality.

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Film Extrusion

A Family Film Business Goes High-Tech

Papa, as Norman Rabenstein is fondly called on the shop floor, brought his family up to make plastic film.

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Film Extrusion

Modest Investment, Big Payoff For Blown Film Plant

In blown film, there is certainly more than one way to skin a cat.

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Film Extrusion

Film Extruder Tries Do-It-Yourself Electric Power

One of the country’s largest makers of stretch film and bags, the Sigma Plastics Group based in Lyndhurst, N.J., has embarked on an experiment in generating its own electricity.

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