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Purging Compound Insights And Tips

Topic: Preventative-purging

2 Reasons Why Your Machine’s Auto-Purge Function Sabotages Your Purging Results

Many plastics processors and convertors have told me some of their injection molding machines..

Failure Equals Success When Processing Post-Consumer Recycled Plastics (PCRs)

To paraphrase Thomas Edison when asked how it felt to fail at making a light bulb over 1000..

Injection Molding FAQ: What is Cushion & why do I need to hold it?

Injection Molding has a lot of strange sounding terms. Fill time, back pressure, shot size,..

A Beginner’s Guide to Hot Runner Cleaning with Purging Compounds

In 2 of my most recent blogs, I posed a few reasons why a strong purging program is a good idea..

4 Causes of Flow Lines in Blown Film Extrusion (and One Easy Solution)

Flow lines are one of the most common processing issues faced by blown film extruders. There..

How Downtime is Hurting Your Bottom Line

Downtime is one of the costliest expenses (factors) that a company can have. Machines can get..

Best Practices for Displacing Purging Compounds

Picture this: you’re about to finish purging a machine. You’re diligently monitoring the purge..

Custom Molders: Clean When You Can. Pull Screws When You Must.

A few weeks ago, my colleague Ben wrote about how EX Grade can be used to facilitate painless..

How to Reduce Costs (and Headaches) on Screw Pulls

Who relishes tear downs and pulling screws out on injection molding machines and/or extrusion..

When Sheet Extruders Should Increase Heats While Purging (& When They Shouldn't)

I recently gave technical support to a new customer who is a Process Engineer at a mid-sized..