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Plastics Processing Applications: Textile Fiber Production

From K-Tron Process Group

Typically the production of manmade colored textile and carpet fibers involves the feeding of two or more components into a single screw extruder, where they are mixed and extruded as a filament. Filament pumps, nozzles and further processing equipment ensure the fibers have the correct form and thickness. The key concern of the manufacturer is that the color of the fiber is uniform and consistent, with no visible variations in color. To ensure consistent color in the final product, resin/dye blending is increasingly performed gravimetrically by weight rather than by the less accurate volumetric approach. Blending by weight continually adjusts for variations in density of the components, providing consistent end products
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