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Barrier coex sheet line can laminate on foam.

A seven-layer coex sheet line with six extruders, being built for Winpak Portion Packaging in South Chicago Heights Chicago Heights, city (1990 pop. 33,072), Cook co., NE Ill., S of Chicago; settled in the 1830s, inc. as a city 1901. It is an industrial community where steel, transportation equipment, metal products, tiles, and chemicals are manufactured. Prairie State College is there. , Ill., may be the most complex barrier sheet line ever designed. It will be able to laminate laminate,
n a thin slice of porcelain or plastic fabricated in a dental lab, which is cemented to the front of the teeth to cover gaps, whiten stained teeth, or reshape chipped or broken teeth.
 in line with coextrusion and also chemically foam the layer from the main 6-in. extruder. It will make barrier sheet with EVOH EVOH Ethylene Vinyl Alcohol Polymer (chemical industry)  plus PS, PP, or PET cores. Winpak hopes to be able to coextrude PP or PET foam with EVOH, but it may have to use lamination lamination

a laminar structure or arrangement.
. The line is being built by Processing Technologies inc., Aurora, Ill. PTi says it's one of the world's largest barrier sheet lines--making 66-in.-wide sheet starting at 10 mils thick. Until now, Winpak's widest sheet was 40 in. PTi: (630) 585-5800 * PTDirect:493KB
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Title Annotation:Extrusion
Publication:Plastics Technology
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Jan 1, 2005
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