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Wood Plastic Composite Manufacturing

Extrusion line is a major set of equipment intended for extruding of WPC linear profile.

The primary unit of extrusion line is extruder machine. Auxilaries (downstream) include modules located after extrusion die: cooling section, take-off (puller) unit, cutter, handling table.

 

Extruder

Extruder WP50

To achieve required extrudate the palletized compound is fed into extruder through gravity filling bunker. It is heated and melted to uniform flow mass inside the cylinder of the extruder.

Extrusion Process

Blank comes out of extrusion die

Then melt flow is transferred and pressed through the slit of the die. This is done by a screw rotation inside the extruder cylinder generated by v-motor.

 


Cooling section

Cooling tank

Uniform cooling around/along the outlet of extrusion die is considered to be very important factor of the extrusion process. Cooling equipment comprises water tank furnished with auxiliary sizing facilities. Extruded blank is pulled by the tractor through the water and cooled. While passing under water along the cooling tank the extruded profile is subjected to shrinkage due to temperature drop. However the size of the product depends not only upon cooling but also upon the speed of traction. 
 

 

Tractor (puller)

Caterpiller type tractor unit

Tractor (puller) is a caterpiller-type machine, that pulls the extruded blank through water tank, pushing it further on downstream to cutter and handling table. The tractor pulls the extruded profile with uniform speed, without allowing it to slip. This process is closely related to final dimensions of the finished product.
 

  Cutter

Tractor followed by cutter

Cutter is a device that fixes the extruded profile and cut it to desired length by means of thermal knife.
 
  Handling table

Cutter&handling table

To cut the profile to desired length the blank is placed along the handling table, following the cutter. Cut piece is overturned to finished profile collector.

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