Benefits
• Improves product surface conditions;
– Reduces surface defects such as, melt fracture, porosities, burrs, etc.
– Eliminates die build-up.
– Improves dimension stability & controllability.
– Improves color/other additives dispersion.
– Reduces gel formation.
– Reduces crystallization.
• Increases Production Capability;
– Reduces internal (Extruder) pressure.
– Reduces the power consumption by the Extruder.
– Reduces heat transition within the Extruder.
– Reduces downtime.
– Reduces time taken for colour change.
• Reduces Cost
– Allows effective use of lower MFI resins.
– Allows extrusion of temperature sensitive Resins.
Applications
• PPA can be used in materials as follows,
- Polyolefins, such as PE, PP, XLPE, PPR, PEX, POE etc.
- Ethylene-vinyl acetate (EVA)
- PS
- PVC
- PC
- ABS
- Polyamide (PA, Nylon)
• PPA can be used in improving the performance of resins for the following types of manufacturing methods,
- Blow Film
- Pipe/Profile Extrusion
- Fiber Spinning
- Injection Molding
- Casting
- Yarn/Filament Extrusion