High-Low Melt Blends

Modified on Sunday, 01 February 2015 05:40 PM by mpieler — Categorized as: Extrusion Hints

High-low melt blends
Vol. 19, #2, June 1992

When making a blend of low melting point and high melting point plastics, if feeding a pre blend results in unmelt product, split the feed.

Feed the high Tm material first, then feed the low Tm material into the already molten polymer.

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