Pipe, Profile & Tubing Extrusion
Recycled PET/PE Alloys Show Promise In Monofilament, Pallets, Pipe
Alloys of polyethylene and recycled PET were the highlight of the annual SPE Global Plastics Environmental Conference (GPEC) in Detroit in February.
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Convert PVC Pipe Dies to Make Fence Profiles
If you are a PVC pipe extruder who wants to get into the burgeoning market for fence profiles, you have several new options from American Maplan.
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Cut the 'Chatter' in Window Profile Extrusion
A new class of heat stabilizer and an unusual lubricant are said to allow high-speed extrusion of rigid PVC window profiles without such common problems as "chatter" lines, die plateout, and frictional heat build-up in the calibrator.
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Solving Gels in Thin Film, Tubing Extrusion
Gels are a common quality problem in thin film and tubing extrusion. To solve them, learn from where they came.
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White Mineral Oil A New Way to Lubricate Rigid PVC
Processors of rigid PVC pipe, window profiles, siding, fencing, and doors can save money and speed compound mixing by using a new grade of white mineral oil as an external lubricant in place of the usual paraffin wax.
Read MoreNPE Newsfinder: Extrusion
NPE will show higher outputs of practically everything, as advances in grooved feeds, servo drives, screw torque, mixing screws, dies, and downstream cooling, cutting, and handling make everything run faster.
Read MoreWood Tubes Close-Up
Hollow tubing with a high loading of wood fiber is one of the newest products—and one of the trickiest—in the booming business of wood-filled thermoplastic extrusion.
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Get Smart About Screens
Almost all extrusion processes pass melt through wire-mesh screens on the way to the die to provide filtering and improved mixing.
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Family Lumber Business Turns To Plastics
Five years ago, Quality Wood Treating in Prairie Du Chien, Wis., was a 30-year-old family lumber business and one of the largest wood pressure-treaters in the country.
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Building a Business on Energy Savings
Entrepreneur Sven Eckert doesn’t like to waste energy.
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