best practices
Energy Savings Pay Off Fast for Custom Profile Processor
More and more processors are looking an energy as a place to cut costs and improve their competitive position.
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Extrusion: A Roll Is a Roll Is a Roll?
Chill rolls may looks simple and shiny, but they play a critical part in cooling and polishing film and sheet and are not all the same.
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Injection Molding: How to Set Second-Stage (Pack & Hold) Pressure
Most molders work with two parameters for establishing second-stage pressure. But within Scientific Molding there are actually four.
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Tips and Techniques: Boosting Extrusion Productivity - Part III of III: Trim Your Material & Energy Costs
Material cost is the largest cost factor in most extruded commodity products, so processors should be motivated to reduce these expenses.
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Thermoforming Helps Harvest the Wind
It was a decades-old relationship that led to the development of an exciting new application for twin-sheet thermoforming.
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How to Set Up & Maintain An Efficient Resin Handling System
In today's world, having a reliable resin-handling and conveying system is as important as having reliable electrical power.
Read MoreExtrusion: Start Up and Shut Down Properly
A key goal during startup and shutdown of the extruder is to prevent degradation of the polymer left in the extruder and downstream components such as screen changers, adapters, and dies.
Read MoreInjection Molding: You Must Dry Hygroscopic Resins
The reason you dry certain plastics is to get the moisture out. But why does the moisture have to be taken out before processing?
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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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How to Get Peak Performance & Efficiency Out of Your Extrusion Line, Part I
A lot of things must be in place to achieve what I like to call efficient extrusion.
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