SPE conference speakers share techniques for achieving and maintaining peak polymer throughput
The inaugural Plastics Processing Conference of the Lehigh Valley and Palisades-New Jersey sections of SPE focused on ways of achieving and maintaining polymer performance and productivity during extrusion, injection molding and compounding.
Topics presented at the virtual event, April 6 to 7, included GreenMantra’s advanced recycling technology, which involves the partial depolymerization of waste plastics to create specialty polymers that function as additives in processing and in applications like asphalt roofing and roads. In another area, Leistritz discussed how to marry downstream processing lines directly to twin-screw extruders to efficiently produce 3D printing filaments without sacrificing dimensional precision.