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Biggest blown film die ever made for PVC.


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Macro Engineering & Technology, Inc., Mississauga Mississauga (mĭsĭsaw`gə), city (1991 pop. 463,388), S Ont., Canada, 12 mi (20 km) W of Toronto on Lake Ontario. A residential suburb of Toronto and a growing transportation and industrial center, it is one of Canada's fastest-growing , Ont., has built what is believed to be the largest coex blown film die for PVC PVC: see polyvinyl chloride.
PVC
 in full polyvinyl chloride

Synthetic resin, an organic polymer made by treating vinyl chloride monomers with a peroxide.
 in the world--24-in, diam. to make 6-meter-wide, three-layer PVC geomembranes Geomembranes are a kind of geosynthetic material. They are impermeable membranes used widely as cut-offs and liners. Until recent years, geomembranes were used mostly as canal and pond liners.  and greenhouse covers. Blown PVC film is typically monolayer mon·o·lay·er
n.
1. A film or layer one molecule thick formed at the interface between water and either oil or air by a substance such as a partially esterified fatty acid that contains both hydrophobic and hydrophilic groups in the same
 and made on much smaller dies. The largest previously is believed to be 16 in. diam. The die was developed for Kautex Textron GmbH in Bonn, Germany, which will introduce the technology at the K 2007 show in Dusseldorf next month. Kautex Textron will offer the technology for licensing. Kautex: +49 (228) 488 0 www.kautex.de
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Title Annotation:KEEPING UP WITH: Extrusion
Publication:Plastics Technology
Date:Sep 1, 2007
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