Editorial

Minimize Energy. Maximize Savings.

Article written by Peter Mapleston for Injection World Magazine, March 2021. Plastics granules are not always everything they appear to be. Hygroscopic materials, especially polyesters like PET, PBT and polycarbonate, and also most polyamides, absorb significant amounts of water from their surroundings. That makes drying just before processing a necessity if a processor wants to avoid material degradation and substandard moldings. And someti... read more