Extrusion

Extrusion Excellence: This Year's Top Stories

Revisit the year’s most popular articles on extrusion technology and processes, showcasing innovations, best practices, and the trends that captured the plastics processing community’s attention.

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Blow Molding

Plastics Technology Year in Review: Your Favorite Reads of 2024

A year-end review of the top stories showcasing industry trends, advancements and expert insights. Revisit the articles that captured the attention of the plastics community.

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Extrusion

ENTEK Gets DOE Loan for Battery Separator Plant

Government loan of $1.2 billion to largely fund lithium-ion battery-separator plant using “wet process.”  

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Extrusion

Compact Extruder for High-Output Compounding, Recycling

Sleek, flexible machine can process PET up to 6 tons per hour.  

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Thermoforming

Sheet Extrusion, Thermoforming Tips for PLA/aPHA Blends

Biopolymers like PLA and PHA are able to meet sustainability goals while also delivering the performance attributes needed in rigid food packaging. Here’s what testing has shown.    

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Packaging

Amcor, Berry Merge in All-Stock Deal

Move unites two complementary 大象传媒es to create a global leader in consumer packaging.  

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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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Extrusion

Using a Melt Flow Indexer to Test Your Pressure Transducer

The MFI tester enables collection of meaningful pressure data in transducers in a relatively short time, providing realistic measures of the response time of a pressure transducer. This information is critical in the interpretation of pressure data measured in an extrusion process.  

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New Screw Boosts Mixing, Enhances Polymer Properties

Device mixes at the ‘molecular level,’ inventor says, to boost mechanicals and in some cases make pre-drying redundant.

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processor's edge

Leading Cast Film Processor Adding Blown Film Capacity

Malpack adds two multilayer blown film lines for agricultural, stretch hood and shrink films.  

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Plastics Size Reduction