Course Overview
Optimizing Extrusion Based Lamination and Coating Technology
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This intermediate level course in the operation, optimization, and design of extrusion lamination and coating processes focuses on improving existing extrusion lamination and coating equipment. The course is organized according to unit processes to facilitate understanding of potential productivity improvements that can be achieved by optimizing or upgrading existing machines or specifying new equipment.
Course Outline
Day 1: 8:30AM - 5PM
- Overview of the laminator
- Melt Rheology and Polymer property review
- Optimizing extruder output and melt properties
- Extrusion process characterization
- Screw design principles for laminating extruders
- Extrusion coating dies
Day 2: 8:30AM - 4PM
- Coating and lamination point
- Process settings affecting bond strength
- Drawdown from the die
- Coextruded laminating layers
- Surface oxidation
- Laminating substrate
- Winding and web handling characteristics
- Critical surface properties for lamination bonds
- Critical property selection
- Paper and foil
- Surface preparation
- Laminating resins
- Polyethylene
- Modified resins and copolymers
- Barrier resins
- Troubleshooting the laminating and coating process
- Defects
- Bonding
- Wrinkles
- Increasing line speed
- Scale-up and increasing productivity
Who will benefit from this course?
Manufacturing and technical staff responsible for the operation and process support of extrusion laminating and coating equipment, personnel interested in improving the extrusion operation and the lamination step to achieve higher line speeds and improved bonding performance, anyone desiring an improved understanding of the key operating principles of the coater laminator.
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