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Tell Me About Profile Extrusion

02/23/2007 8:17 AM

i just wanted to know about profile manufacturing in extrusion method of uhmwpe or hdpe or what so ever ok thanking you i will be waiting for your reply

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Re: Tell Me About Profile Extrusion

02/25/2007 11:11 AM
  • Make a die with outlet hole having a cross section of the profile you want to produce.
  • If it is low melting metal/alloy ( say Al, Cu,Zn,Mg---) then load a preheated ingot at almost-melting point( when yield point will be say 5% that at room Temp) and push with a ram powered by a Horizontal Hydraulic Press of ample rating. Out comes profiles-into the runout cooling table. Using a flying saw , you cut this up at say 6 mtr lengths and these cutups go onto the faster Runout table. The Ingot is generally squeezed out fully in one non stop operation.
  • If instead of metal/alloy you want to Extrude a Plastic to tube/profile-- the machine will be (generally) a Screw Extruder-- and instead of an Ingot you feed the Extruder input hopper--a master batch of the Plastic in granule/prill/powder-- at almost-melting temperature. Rest as above.
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