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How to Select the Right Cooling Stack for Sheet
First, remember there is no universal cooling-roll stack. And be sure to take into account the specific heat of the polymer you are processing.
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Making Gains in the Drain Game
AWD blends extrusion and thermoforming technologies with plenty of home-brewed equipment and processes to keep water away from where it isn’t supposed to be.
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How to Decrease the Extrudate Temperature in Single-Screw Extruders
In many cases, decreasing the discharge temperature will improve product quality and perhaps even boost rate. Here are ways to do it.
Read MoreNew Owners for Alpha Marathon
After bankruptcy, new group purchases intellectual property and forms Alpha Marathon Film Extrusion Technologies.
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Banach to Lead Cast Film, Sheet, Coatings at Reifenhäuser
Flat film and sheet veteran has worked for both suppliers and processors.
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PTI Seals Deal to Rep Italian Slitter Manufacturer Helios
PTi to provide slitters and related components and services to sheet processors in the U.S. and Canada under exclusive agreement.
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Latest Sheet Extrusion News And Updates
PTi Makes Changes in Leadership Structure
Moves aimed at bolstering the future of the sheet extrusion manufacturer.
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Roll Stand is Compact, Flexible
Streamlined stack is joined by high-speed extruder; service cart for maintaining screws, dies and rolls; and other products.
Read MoreRohm, SABIC Combine on New Film, Sheet Unit
Called Polyvantis, new firm to be a global powerhouse in PC and PMMA extrusion.
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Macro Names Anzini Tech Sales Manages for Southeast
Has worked in technical roles for leading processing companies in his career of 40+ years.
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OMV Technologies Gets New CEO
Kooper brings 33 years of experience in the industrial and consumer packaging industries to OMV--the closed-loop, turnkey, inline extrusion, thermoforming and tooling systems manufacturer.
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Roll Cooling: Understand the Three Heat-Transfer Processes
Designing cooling rolls is complex, tedious and requires a lot of inputs. Getting it wrong may have a dramatic impact on productivity.
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Green’s the Theme in Extrusion/Compounding
The drive toward circular economy is requiring processors to make more use of PCR. Machine builders at K—across all extrusion processes—will be highlighting innovations to help them do just that.
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Minimize Sheet Gauge Variation by Roll Design
‘Hour-glass’ sheet gauge can be avoided through a reverse-bending roll design that is out of patent and freely available.
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Understanding Roll Deflection in Sheet Processing
Because of roll deflection, sheet stacks made for PS don’t work nearly as well with PP. One solution is to try a top roll that bends in the opposite direction.
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PPEs Are Here to Stay: Is Your Sheet Line Ready?
Follow these tips to evaluate your sheet extrusion lines to find out if you can expand into this market.
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Breaking Barriers: Sheet Processor Makes Move on High-End Packaging Market
Impact Plastics sets up new brand with game-changing disruptive technology that combines a novel PP with customized equipment that looks to upend the business of extruded sheet for barrier food packaging.
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