May 11 2009
The use of a polymer in product making generally requires it to be blended with other ingredients, which add certain special characteristics to the final product. Due to the high cost of plastic as well as the use of certain types of charges and additives, it is advisable to use equipment which optimizes the production process before starting extrusion on a grand scale.
The Plastograph is a blender-kneader machine which allows one to get Polymeric Material Formulations, easily and quickly, on a laboratory scale to make further characterization tests parallel to the production tasks. The Technological Research Centre for Toys (AIJU), recently checked the efficiency of this machine to obtain reference materials with heavy metals, according to the RoHS Directive, for the verification and validation of the screening technique, which uses X-Ray Fluorescency, and to study the capacity of certain additives to retain volatile substances such as phenol, benzene, xilene, toluene and etilbenzene in order to minimize the presence of toxic pollutants in toys. So, in collaboration with the New Materials Department of CIDETEC, AIJU has processed different formulations by using a Plastograph to obtain reference materials.
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