{"id":1335,"date":"2017-07-12T17:51:45","date_gmt":"2017-07-12T15:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.plasticol.it\/?p=1335\/"},"modified":"2017-07-29T14:29:23","modified_gmt":"2017-07-29T12:29:23","slug":"plastic-extrusion-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.plasticol.it\/en\/plastic-extrusion-process\/","title":{"rendered":"Plastic extrusion process: what it is and how it works"},"content":{"rendered":"

What is plastic extrusion<\/h1>\n

With the term\u00a0plastic extrusion<\/strong>, we refer to\u00a0a process used to create many different plastic products<\/strong>\u00a0such as pipes, sheets, and gaskets. There are\u00a0several types of plastic<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0that can be used in this process and the most used ones are\u00a0PVC, ABS, polyethylene, and polyurethanes<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Plasticol<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0is a company founded in 1959 and it is located in\u00a0Samarate<\/strong>, near Varese. The factory is specialized in the\u00a0plastic extrusion process<\/strong>\u00a0and has\u00a012 different extrusion lines<\/strong>, each one destined for a specific material or type of production.<\/p>\n

Our products can be used in\u00a0several industrial fields<\/strong>; among those sectors, there are the automotive one, the footwear one, and the electronic goods one. The clients appreciate our work especially for the\u00a0great customization we provide\u00a0<\/strong>and the\u00a0amazing quality of our finished products<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

We also provide\u00a0assistance<\/strong>\u00a0to make sure our clients can get what they really were looking for, and some other\u00a0additional services<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0like picking the\u00a0colour<\/strong>\u00a0of the plastic and the\u00a0digital printing<\/strong>\u00a0on the final products, for example.<\/p>\n

How does the plastic extrusion process work?<\/h2>\n

To the people who don\u2019t work in this field the\u00a0plastic extrusion process<\/strong>\u00a0might seem like an extremely complicated one but in reality, it is\u00a0really simple<\/strong>. Let\u2019s see how the finished products come to life in the Plasticol factory.<\/p>\n

The procedure starts with\u00a0choosing the material\u00a0<\/strong>which always is in the form of\u00a0granulate or flakes<\/strong>. At the beginning, these little pieces of plastic are placed in a\u00a0hopper<\/strong>\u00a0and they are\u00a0gradually maneuvered to the barrel<\/strong>\u00a0of the extruder. Here a\u00a0rotating screw<\/strong>\u00a0pushes the material on the sides of the barrel, and the\u00a0heat<\/strong>\u00a0produced by the friction between the beads of plastic and the walls of the heated cylinder\u00a0melts the grains in a pliable consistency<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The screw keeps pushing the melted material until it arrives at the\u00a0breaker plate<\/strong>, a piece of metal necessary both to\u00a0clean molten plastic from any contaminant<\/strong>\u00a0and to act as a support in the final part of the plastic extrusion process. In fact, the plastic is now ready to go in the\u00a0die<\/strong>, the element that\u00a0gives the material its final shape<\/strong>: since the dimension of the die is usually smaller than the one of the barrel, the extruder needs something to\u00a0create back pressure and push the plastic into the die<\/strong>\u00a0and the breaker plate is the perfect option for this job.<\/p>\n

Based on the shape of the die\u00a0Plasticol can create different products<\/strong>: if it is\u00a0flat\u00a0<\/strong>we get a\u00a0sheet<\/strong>, if it is\u00a0rounded<\/strong>\u00a0a\u00a0cylinder<\/strong>, and if it is\u00a0hollow<\/strong>\u00a0a\u00a0pipe-shaped object<\/strong>. Moreover,\u00a0the extrusion process can combine different material<\/strong>\u00a0so to obtain a product that has two separate layers, this is called\u00a0co-extrusion<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

For any business inquiries or an estimate contact Plasticol, please.<\/p>\n

Location:<\/strong>
\nVia San Carlo 35<\/span>
\n21017- Samarate (VA)
\nPhone:\u00a0<\/strong>(+39) 0331 234 212
\nFax:<\/strong>\u00a0(+39) 0331 235 108
\nEmail:<\/strong>\u00a0info@plasticol.it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What is plastic extrusion With the term\u00a0plastic extrusion, we refer to\u00a0a process used to create many different plastic products\u00a0such as pipes, sheets, and gaskets. There are\u00a0several types of plastic\u00a0that can be used in this process and the most used ones are\u00a0PVC, ABS, polyethylene, and polyurethanes. Plasticol\u00a0is a company founded in 1959 and it is located […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1325,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plasticol.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plasticol.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plasticol.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plasticol.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plasticol.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1335"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.plasticol.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1353,"href":"https:\/\/www.plasticol.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335\/revisions\/1353"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plasticol.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plasticol.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plasticol.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plasticol.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}