- Homogenizing
different plastics.
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- No
miracles involved.
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- This
is a machine that simply open the polymer chain
and put it back together connecting it to the other
polymers that are in the compound.
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- We
found very interesting results compounding what
it is not campatible. Period
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- What
do you think if we tell you we make to stay together
PET and PVC getting a clear polymer out of it ?
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- Yes,
we know is worthless but this is only an example.
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- But
it is the solution to many compounding problems,
where the result of cleaning is a bunch of polymers
nobody knows what to do with.
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- We
like it or not, all plastics should and will be
recycled and when "plastics" are collected
as "plastics" while washing is possible,
separation becomes a real problem so, the way to
go to get a polymer with good mechanical characteristics
is compounding.
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- Now,
it's not that simple; the polymer out of this machine
will have the average characteristics of all the
polyners in the mixing, meaning if we compound LLDPE,
some soft PVC and thermoplastic rubber, the result
will be a good strong polyme, very soft.
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- Adding
some 10% PC or PS it will become much more rigid
and so on.
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- In
other words, to get a good, stedy result, the mixture
of polymers needs to be the same all the time.
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- At
this point you will have a polymer with fixed characteristics
to sell for a certain purpose.
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- One
good example that should be taken into consideration
is the fact machines for lumber require HDPE, that's
pretty expensive for that application so, what about
starting from a worthless mixture and get a strong
lumber ?
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- Think
it over.