High-output compounding with high wood content.Entek Extruders, Lebanon, Ore., got its start in building twin-screw extruders for its own processing of highly filled compounds for battery separators (50% silica, 14% oil, 20% UHMW-PE UHMW-PE Ultra High Molecular Weight Polyethylene , and the rest additives and colorant col·or·ant n. Something, especially a dye, pigment, ink, or paint, that colors or modifies the hue of something else. adj. Of or being a subtractive primary color. ). Now it is applying that experience to twin-screw design for processing high filler loadings in wood-plastic composites (WPCs). The firm recently demonstrated new screw and processing technology with two vacuum vents for 25% higher output of WPCs. A modified 53-mm twin-screw lab line extruded 1600 lb/hr of 60% wood-filled HDPE HDPE abbr. high-density polyethylene into 1 x 4 in. decking at 600 rpm. Before modification, the line could produce only 1200 lb/hr of WPC WPC (in Britain) woman police constable WPC (Brit) n abbr (= woman police constable) → Polizistin f WPC n abbr (BRIT profiles at 400 rpm. The demonstration used undried, precompounded material containing 60-mesh wood flour with 4% to 12% moisture plus 4% additives and colorant. Tel: (541) 259-1068 * PTDirect: 151VT [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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