Opening is the subject of this month’s column. I’m talking about the die opening, or die gap, out of which our extruded plastic comes, not the politically charged battle over opening the economy that ...

Guill Tool & Engineering has developed a reciprocal tubing die design. Unique features eliminate the need to weld or otherwise join sections with different profiles together. Traditional tip-and-die ...

Wallwork-Tecvac have introduced CALI-COAT, a new PVD duplex coating exclusively developed for the extrusion of plastics, and particularly designed for window frame extrusion. The coating is typically ...

West Warwick, R.I. — Guill Tool and Engineering Co. Inc., a supplier of extrusion tooling technology, came out with a new design for its rotary extrusion dies. The line of patented rotating tip and ...

Two examples of how nanotube-filled polymers (thin rod in left photo; small disk in right photo) avoid swelling seen in traditional polymers. Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and ...

CHIPPEWA FALLS, WIS. (Sept. 14, 11:5 a.m. EDT) — At K 2001, Extrusion Dies Inc. will expand its Accuflow coextrusion feedblock to handle five layers of film, sheet and coatings. Also new from EDI: a ...

Ohio-based Nordson supplies restrictor bar die to recycled-content manufacturer in Europe. The component being shipped by Nordson will help Estonia-based Greenful Group make its recycled-content wall ...