Mixer/extruder combo for wood-plastic profiles.A proprietary mixer piggybacked on a 10-in. hot-melt extruder is making hollow HDPE HDPE abbr. high-density polyethylene profiles containing 40% wood flour Wood flour is finely pulverized wood that has a consistencey fairly equal to sand, but can vary considerably, with particles ranging in size from a fine powder to roughly the size of a grain of rice. . Advanced Extruder Technologies (AET AET Aetna, Inc. AET After Extra Time AET Actual Evapotranspiration AET Alliance for Environmental Technology AET Alpha-Ethyltryptamine AET Applied Extrusion Technologies, Inc. ), Elk Grove Village Elk Grove Village, village (1990 pop. 33,429), Cook and Du Page counties, NE Ill., a suburb of Chicago; inc. 1956. With a population of c.100 at the time of its establishment on open farmland, the village has grown dramatically and steadily, largely because of its , Ill., developed the continuous mixer and combined it with its Advantage Series hot-melt extruder for direct compounding and extrusion. The line doesn't require predried wood flour, since it pulls a vacuum between the mixer and extruder, followed by more vacuum vents on the extruder. AET has delivered two such mixer/extruder combinations for direct wood-plastic extrusion and a third is on order. Nominal capacity is 5000 lb/hr, but output is limited by the ability to cool the profile, depending on its formulation and design. Tel: (847) 238-9651 * PTDirect: 467ZZ [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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