Have you ever tried to figure out how the freezer gaskets, composite windows, vinyl fencing are made? These kinds of products get produced with a manufacturing high in volume with a specialised plastic extrusion.

An extruder consists of the various components like manual or vacuum hopper, long barrel, external heaters, etc.  It is mainly a piece of equipment which is considered to be the backbone of the manufacturing technique.

Following are components it includes so you can understand it better.
There is a vacuum hopper which works by holding the material of raw plastic.
A screw like mechanism which is known as a long barrel. It begins to work by pushing all the plastic through the barrel.
An external heater is also there, which helps in maintaining the needed temperature inside the barrel. And then there comes a die which helps in forming the plastic part which is being manufactured.

Benefits of Plastic extrusion

The plastic extrusion comes with a lot of benefits; they are continuous and capable enough of higher volume output. It has all the abilities to make plastic manufacturing methods more economical than other methods. It works specifically well for the production of plastic parts such as plastic flat strips, bags, piping, rods, and so much more. With that being said, the cost of tooling is also lower in comparison with others.

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