In the plastics industry, twin screws are at the very heart of the extrusion process that transforms raw materials into rigid PVC pipe or profile. These highly engineered components are integral to ...
The Fenestration and Glazing Industry Alliance (FGIA) updated a specification offering a roadmap for successful welded corners and reduced risk of deformations and malfunctions of fenestration ...
Editor?s note: Chris Rauwendaal is a designer, consultant, and seminar instructor who has written extensively on process engineering and extrusion topics. Part 1 of this article (PM&A Nov./Dec. 2002) ...
KraussMaffei Berstorff has developed a lower-cost process to make multilayer PVC floor coverings, referred in the trade as Luxury Vinyl Tiles. Traditionally, LVT is made in a multistage process using ...
A new invention from the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) could soon help manufacturers ...
Increasingly smaller medical devices require tighter tolerances that make extrusion process control more difficult. Photos courtesy of TEEL PLASTICS INC. As medical devices get smaller and tolerances ...
For its latest project FAE SRL, a specialist in electrical panel design for OEMs in the plastics sector, needed a drive solution that could meet the rigorous demands of continuous operation, high ...
The rapid development of technology is associated with the need to search for new structural materials that meet increasingly stringent requirements and allow further technological barriers to be ...