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Processing Techniques for Polyolefins

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Polyolefin Compounds and Materials

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Without any doubts it could be stated that among the other types of polymeric materials only polyolefins are processed into such amount of products: blown packaging and agriculture films; extruded hygienic foils, building and car industry sheets and foams, pressure pipes, wires and cables insulation; blown moulded containers, tanks, detergent bottles or car defrost air systems; injection moulded consumer (end use) products; melt blown non-woven fabrics; coated and laminated paper or its substitution. Easiness of polyolefins processing connected with relative high melt stability and low processing temperature, possibility to modify properties of final products via molecular tailoring—copolymerization, alloying, grafting, crosslinking and high recycling potential guarantee further successful future for polyolefins for a wide range of applications. Deeper discussion of selected individual continuous processes and processing aspects is presented in this chapter.

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    Igor Krupa

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Sedláček, T. (2016). Processing Techniques for Polyolefins. In: Al-Ali AlMa'adeed, M., Krupa, I. (eds) Polyolefin Compounds and Materials. Springer Series on Polymer and Composite Materials. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25982-6_4

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