Film Extrusion
Tiny, Low-Priced CCD Camera
WEB EXCLUSIVE A tiny new line-scan camera for non-patterned web inspection requires a fraction of the space and a fraction of the cost of most web-inspection cameras.
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What's Ahead for 'Green' Plastics: Look for More Supply, More Varieties, Better Properties
Major chemical companies are investing big bucks in new plants and technologies to produce plastics from annually renewable sources, not from petrochemicals.
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K 2007 Extrusion: Extrusion Outputs Go Through the Roof
Dramatic production demonstrations of cast and blown film set throughput records on the show floor in Dusseldorf.
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Extruders Made in China: They're Coming Here Now
Low-priced Chinese-built extruders have arrived in North America to make pipe, sheet, film, and profiles. Some customers find them a good buy; others don’t. Here’s what you need to know.
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Branched PVDF Gains Melt Strength For Film, Blow Molding, Thermoforming
Chain branching opens up lots of new processing opportunities for these fluoropolymers.
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Finding Out Why Products Fail
At its worst, plastic product failure can cause death or injury to a customer or a customer’s customer.
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What's New at the Show in EXTRUSION
It’s all about higher speeds and higher outputs at this year’s “K” show in Germany.
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Get Rid of Wrinkles In Blown Film
The biggest cause of wrinkles in the blown film process is instability of the bubble between the air ring and where the bubble reaches full diameter.
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Extruding Biopolymers: Packaging Reaps Cost Benefit of Going 'Green'
Plastics made from renewable carbon chains, not fossil carbon from oil or gas, are suddenly a solid commercial reality. The draw isn’t just “green” marketing, but the “green” of stable prices not linked to petrochemicals.
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