This book serves as a unique handbook that answers over a thousand of the potential combinations of basic variables or problems that can occur from up-stream to down-stream equipment. Guidelines are provided for maximizing processing efficiency and operating at the lowest possible cost. It explains in a clear, concise and simple format the various extrusion processes that produce different commodity and engineered plastic products. Extruding Plastics's practical approach provides, for the novice and experienced personnel, a methodology on extrusion advancements and trends. This leads to a streamlining of processing lines by anticipating problems, which causes them, how to eliminate them, and/or how to take corrective action. The content and index are arranged to provide a natural progression from simple to complex situations. It correlates materials, equipment, process controls, product requirements, and people. Readers who will find this book invaluable include: those already extruding and desiring to obtain additional information for their line; those processing or extruding plastics for the first time; those considering going into another extrusion process; those obtaining information about employing the design of various products more efficiently performance-wise and cost-wise; those in new venture groups, materials development, and/or market development; those in disciplines such as non-plastics manufacturers, engineers, designers, quality control, financial, and management; and those requiring a comprehensive introduction on extrusion.
| Preface | |
| The complete extrusion process | p. 1 |
| Extrusion machine and line | p. 54 |
| Processing plastic material | p. 160 |
| Plasticizing screw process | p. 199 |
| Die design and performance | p. 228 |
| Process control and computer | p. 283 |
| Blown film | p. 305 |
| Flat film | p. 349 |
| Sheet | p. 376 |
| Calendering | p. 418 |
| Coating and lamination | p. 441 |
| Wire and cable | p. 469 |
| Pipe and tube | p. 494 |
| Profiles | p. 528 |
| Blow molding | p. 552 |
| Fiber and filament | p. 593 |
| Compounding | p. 608 |
| Other processes | p. 631 |
| Testing and quality control | p. 673 |
| Summary | p. 699 |
| Appendices | p. 732 |
| References | p. 737 |
| Index | p. 755 |
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ISBN: 9780412828102
ISBN-10: 0412828103
Audience:
General
Format:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 791
Published: 31st October 1998
Dimensions (cm): 23.4 x 15.6
x 4.2
Weight (kg): 1.279