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Bigger mini-calender for PVC sheet.


The new C8 model Calendrette from Battenfeld Extrusionstechnik in Germany (represented here by American Maplan. McPherson, Kan.) has higher output than previous models of this simplified calender CALENDER. An almanac. Julius Caesar ordained that the Roman year should consist of 365 days, except every fourth year, which should contain 366, the additional day to be reckoned by counting the twenty-fourth day of February (which was the 6th of the calends of March) twice.  for thin PVC PVC: see polyvinyl chloride.
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 in full polyvinyl chloride

Synthetic resin, an organic polymer made by treating vinyl chloride monomers with a peroxide.
 sheet. The C8 has up to 1.9-meterwide rollers and output up to 2800 lb/hr, more than double that of the largest previous model (C3.1). This system uses an eight-screw planetary plan·e·tar·y  
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 extruder and a long die to extrude extrude /ex·trude/ (ek-strldbomacd´)
1. to force out, or to occupy a position distal to that normally occupied.

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 a curtain of individual strands. These strands make it possible to calender PVC sheet with only three rolls instead of four and to operate at floor level without a pit for the fourth roll. Maplan: (620) 241-6843 * PT Direct: 817SD

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Title Annotation:KEEPING UP WITH: Extrusion
Publication:Plastics Technology
Date:Jan 1, 2006
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