PET Processing - Extrusion

Sheet Extrusion

Octal to Start PET Sheet Extrusion in Ohio

APET sheet to be made exclusively from sheet flake.

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Biopolymers

Compounding PLA on Twin-Screws: What Testing Reveals

Twin-screw extrusion is the preferred method for compounding PLA and other biopolymers. But processing PLA is complicated because it’s sensitive to heat and shear. It’s also prone to hydrolytic degradation if moisture is present in molten PLA. Here’s what one machine builder’s trials revealed.

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Use Your Gauge to Solve Processing Issues Upstream

Gauging systems have an often-overlooked but equally important role beyond measuring web thickness: They can be used as a diagnostic tool to troubleshoot the process. Here's how.

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Top 10 Extrusion Items in 2013

Here's a quick rundown of things that caught my eye--and likely the attention of extrusion processors, in 2013.

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Sheet Extrusion

Telltale Temperatures

Here's how to get a 'feel' for a screw design without actually seeing it. And how to use this information.

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Multiscrew

Extrusion/Compounding at K 2013: Having It All

Extrusion processors no longer need to chose among speed, quality, and flexibility, based on exhibits at K 2013.

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Sheet Extrusion

SPI and ACC partner on rigid plastics packaging, thermoforming

Can polyethylene terephthalate (PET) thermoforms enjoy the same recycling rates as their bottle brethren? Increasing thermoformed packaging reclaim, and that of other rigid plastics, will likely just be one goal of a new collaboration between SPI and ACC.

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There’s No Lid on This Processor’s Creativity

For this lid maker, the keys to success are speed, flexibility and ingenuity.

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K 2013 Preview: Extrusion, Compounding, Recycling

Across all extrusion technologies, expect to see new standards in speed, quality, flexibility, and efficiency in both energy and material usage.

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Sheet Extrusion

Calibrate Those Instruments

Make sure that your instruments are calibrated on a regular bases and also do a check and balance when gathering data. Never trust what you think you see the first time.

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