Plastics Processing
• Raw materials are thermoplastic pellets, granules, or powder • Placed in hopper and fed into extruder barrel • Screw blends pellets and pushes them down the barrel – through the feed, transition/melt, and pumping sections • Barrel is heated from outside, and by friction • Plastic (or elastomer) is liquefied and forced through a die
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