Souce from: EUROPEAN PLASTICS NEWS
 
LONDON (June 14, 2010) -- Battenfeld-Cincinnati has created a new extruder which it claims is ideal for newcomers to the wood plastic composites (WPC) market.

 

“The wide range of outputs of the conical counter-rotating machine, from 90 to 275 kg/h, makes it possible to extrude a great variety of different profiles with only one machine – an attribute frequently demanded especially by newcomers,” says the firm.

 

The fiberexK72 can produce pre-blended compounds as well as agglomerates based on PVC, PE or PP. It comes with closed-loop screw core tempering, AC drive and a vacuum unit with twin filter as standard.

 

At the AMI Wood Plastic Composites Conference in April, Battenfeld-Cincinnati demonstrated the fiberexK72 producing a hollow decking profile. The machine processed two compounds, one based on PVC and the other on PP.