Going with the flow
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Published: Wednesday, 26 October 2011
K-Tron’s Jaime A. Gómez outlines the impact of flowability on material handling when using mineral fillers in polymer resins
Without plastics additives, polymer resins will find very
limited uses and fail to perform in most applications. A wide
range of materials such as extenders, plasticisers, fillers and
process aids are added during the plastic compounding process
to help with the process and compensate for the resin’s
weaknesses in achieving...