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Equipo para producir lámina de PET sin cristalizadorEquipment for producing PET foil without Crystallizer
UNION, European leader in the design and manufacture of complete lines for sheet and plate, represented in Spain by Centrotécnica, has developed a team to produce sheet of PET, which does not employ Crystallizer or dehumidifier. The secret of this team is in the extruder single with l/D = 38: 1 with double degassing with special pumps system; and a complex equipment developed by the UNION. Simplas, also of the industrial group UNION, has developed a head with reduction of the width of output, to avoid the crystallization of the material for this application. Soon UNION invite the main manufacturers in the sector to a visit to its plant in the vicinity of Milan; to see one of these lines in operation.
74/Universal plastics March 2002
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