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Advances in Mixing & Blending

Advances in Mixing & Blending

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Why settle for this?

10X Magnification
Extruder Only

When you can have this?

  

10X Magnification
Extruder + Tek-MixTM

25% Red pigment in HDPE
25% D&C Red #9 Organic pigment (Lake Red C), single screw extrusion at 10 X magnification, letdown into PE at 2%, shown on a compression molded sheet.
Same product, with Tek-Mix™ Mixer added, letdown  into PE at 2%, shown on a compression molded sheet. 

While these results come from single screw + Tek-MixTM treater processing, for information concerning Tek-MixTM improvements in twin-screw processing click here.

 Tek-MixTM  - Extensional / Elongational Flow
The Next Step in Mixing & Blending

 

Newsflash

From the Stratek Reading Room...

"The Materials Analyst, Part 98:  A Tour of the World of Nylon-Part 1"
An Article by Michael Sepe, published in Injection Molding Magazine - July 2008

Stratek has done considerable experimentation and material processing involving Polyamides (Nylon).  Therefore this article caught our eye when we found it in the July Issue of Injection Molding Magazine.   We think it addresses both the basics and some more advanced information concerning the differences in the chemistry and structure of these two important materials.

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