Advantages Of Plastic Extrusion

ADVANTAGES OF PLASTIC EXTRUSION The process of transforming raw plastic material into a high volume continuous profile is known as plastic extrusion. Heat is used to transform the raw plastic into any desired shape. Plastic extrusion is extensively used in industry for cost benefits and recycling purposes. Some of the commonly manufactured items from plastic extrusions include pipes, tubes, wire insulation, weather stripping, plastic films, deck railings, thermoplastic coatings, plastic sheets and films, fencing, etc. and the plastic tube extrusion is the most popular of all.

Plastic extrusion can be achieved with a help of number of plastic materials including nylon, rigid and flexible PVC, ABS, elastomers and a few others. The properties of the manufactured product depends upon the material used for extrusion. We can achieve rigidness, flexibility or semi-rigid products with the help of plastic extrusion of these materials.

Apart from these traditional plastic extrusions, custom plastic extrusions can also be done to achieve custom plastic products. These custom extrusion include co-extrusion, interlocking extrusion, hollow profiling, etc. These custom extrusions allow us to add even more properties to the plastic products obtained.

An interesting thing about plastic extrusions is that although it has been around for several years now, the process is still evolving. New methods, processes and techniques are becoming a part of plastic extrusions to add more versatility and uniqueness to the products obtained from plastic extrusions.

Advantages of Plastic Extrusions: Plastic extrusions have a number of applications in our industries and household applications.

However, the most common advantages of plastic extrusions are as follows: 1. Low Production Cost: The biggest advantage of plastic extrusion is the low production cost. Melting raw or virgin plastic and reforming it into a new product is a cheaper way of getting benefits from the same material in multiple ways without spending much. Moreover, it do not cost much for doing plastic extrusion thus resulting in low production cost.

2. High Speed, High Volume Production: The tremendous manufacturing capabilities of plastic extrusion allows us to manufacture high volume of plastic parts quite efficiently and in a reasonable amount of investment.

High speed, high volume production is another big advantage of plastic extrusion.

3. Co-Extrusion: With this new technology we can add two or more layers of extrusion in plastics.

Coextrusion involves feeding the liquid molten plastic from two extruders at variable thickness and speeds giving it the required shape and structure. This allows us to incorporate different plastic materials in a single product to achieve various properties.