Plastics extrusion

Plastics extrusion

Gestión de Compras has extensive experience in the design, development and manufacture plastic parts and profiles by extrusion.


Process of plastics extrusion

In extrusion process, molten material passes through a die that forms a continuous straight profile which is cooled and solidified. Usually, this process is cost-effective for simple profiles and for high volume of production.

The principal advantage of this process is that is possible create long length parts. Another one is that is possible manufacture pipes with integrated coupler including rubber seal.

On the downside say that the plastic does not dissipate heat as well as metals so water baths or cooling rolls are required to achieve a correct cooling rate.

The more common polymers extrusion processes are:

1 Blown film extrusion

This process combines extrusion and blowing to produce a tube of thin film. It begins with extrusion of tube that is drawn upward with rollers and simultaneously expanded by air inflated into through a die mandrel. Plastic film for shopping bags and continuous sheeting are manufacturing by this process.

2 Sheet and film extrusion

It is used to extrude plastic sheets or films that are too thick to be blown. The molten material is extruded through a flat die. Then, it is pulled through a set of cooling rolls which are used to determine the thickness of sheet/film and its surface texture.

3 Tubing extrusion

The molten plastic is extruded through a die and hollow cross sections are formed by placing a mandrel inside the die.

4 Over jacketing extrusion

It is also called wire coating process. This process allows for the application of an outer layer of plastic onto an existing wire or cable which is pulled through the center of a die.

5 Co-extrusion

It is the extrusion process of making multiple layers of material simultaneously. It is used to apply one or more layers on top of base material to obtain specific properties.

6 Extrusion coating

It is used to make an additional layer onto an existing rollstock of paper, foil or film.

Production


Gestión de Compras has extensive experience in the design, development and manufacture plastic parts and profiles by extrusion. We work with a wide range of materials and processes. Thus we offer to ours customers their desired parts with high quality and with the most competitive prices.

Materials and products


There are a lot of plastic available for extrusion:

  • PVC
  • ABS
  • Polyethylene (PE)
  • Polypropylene (PP)
  • Polystyrene (PS)
  • High impact polystyrene (HIPS)
  • Polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA)
  • Nylon

There is a huge range of plastic parts made by extrusion as pipes, fences, windows frames and profiles, adhesive tapes, wire insulation, automotive interiors, shopping bags, wrapping materials, sheets… and it is widely used in packing, construction, decoration, automotive, technical textiles…

 

Tolerances

Tolerances for plastic extrusions differ widely from those of metal extrusions. It is because metals harden quickly, they typically hold tighter tolerances than extrusions made of plastic materials. Obtain tight tolerances on extruded plastic parts is much difficult that are usually, based upon the raw materials used, the complexity of the part, and the tooling that is made to produce the part. Some materials, such as PVC, cool more efficiently obtaining thus better tolerances that other which hold onto heat, such as polypropylene.

Standard and certificates

 

Gestión de Compras only works with companies that can provide us warranties, which are holders of all necessary quality certificates and work according to specific industry standards such as:

  • ISO9001 e ISO 14001.
  • TS16949
  • ISO 8062, ISO 286-2, DIN 2768, etc.

Standards according to extruded materials:

  • 19069 para el polipropileno (PP)
  • 16396 para poliamidas (PA)
  • 1622 para poliestireno (PS)
  • 2580 para ABS
  • 4894 para SAN
  • 7391 para policarbonato (PC)
  • 17855 para polietileno (PE)
  • 8257 para polimetilmetacrilato (PMMA)
  • 15013 para la producción de láminas de polipropileno (PP)
  • Etc.

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