Extrusion

Commodity Resins

Nova Installs Nine-Layer Blown Film Coextrusion Line to Enhance Customer Collab

As part of a several upgrades at its Calgary R&D facility, Nova Chemicals has installed a semi-commercial scale nine-layer blown film coextrusion line.

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Film Extrusion

PE Film Market Analysis: Consumer Can Liners

Huge market still dominated by single-layer structures, which could change as use of PCR grows.

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Film Extrusion

PE Film Market Analysis: Institutional Can Liners

Huge market still overwhelmingly dominated by monolayer structures.

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Film Extrusion

PE Film Market Analysis: T-Shirt Bags

It's a huge ´óÏó´«Ã½ that will grow modestly over the next three years even in the face of environmental obstacles.

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Tips to Sell Your Company at the Right Value

M&A expert offers her advice in part two of this three-part blog series.

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EXTRUSION AND COMPOUNDING NPE: Flexibility, Speed and Quality

Extrusion processors need more—of everything—to compete. And suppliers responded in force in Orlando.

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economics

Processing Market Flattens

Processing has grown significantly since the beginning of 2014, but April dipped 11% on a year-to-year basis.

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best practices

Keep Your Screen Changer In the Flow

The screen changer plays an essential role in generating quality extrudate. Here’s what you need to know to keep it functioning properly.

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EXTRUSION: Cooling: The Critical Function in Extrusion

Figuring out how much cooling your process needs is complicated. But there are ways to approximate.

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Plastics Size Reduction
Blending & Dosing