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Stretch Blow Molding of Mineral Filled PET

  • N. Billon , J.-M. Haudin , C. Vallot and C. Babin
Published/Copyright: August 11, 2015
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International Polymer Processing
From the journal International Polymer Processing Volume 30 Issue 4

Abstract

Injection stretch blow molding (ISBM) is a two-step process that was designed and optimized mainly for unfilled PET resins. The present study focuses on stretch blow molding of a PET filled with different amounts of sub-micronic mineral fillers. The influence of fillers is analyzed thanks to DSC, DMA, tensile testing and processing in different configurations on a prototype apparatus and an industrial machine. It is demonstrated that fillers enhance crystallization kinetics, which leads to a reduction of the processing range. Differences in strain hardening induced by fillers make it necessary to adjust blowing temperature. However, the main effect occurs during the heating phase of the preforms. Temperature within a filled preform is much less homogeneous than in neat PET, making the temperature gradient totally different if the heating protocol is kept unchanged. Once the heating of filled preforms is controlled to reach equivalent temperature gradients, blowing is possible and rather equivalent to that of pure PET.

* Mail Address: Jean-Marc Haudin, MINES ParisTech, PSL – Research University, Centre de Mise en Forme des Matériaux, UMR CNRS n° 7635, CS 10207, 06904 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France, E-mail:

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Received: 2015-01-24
Accepted: 2015-04-26
Published Online: 2015-08-11
Published in Print: 2015-08-14

© 2015, Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich

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https://doi.org/10.3139/217.3066

Articles in the same Issue

  1. Contents
  2. Contents
  3. Review Papers
  4. Heat Transfer Coefficient in Injection Molding of Polymers
  5. Regular Contributed Articles
  6. Using the GPU to Design Complex Profile Extrusion Dies
  7. Dispersive Mixing Performance Evaluation of Special Rotor Segments in an Intermeshing Co-Rotating Twin-Screw Extruder by Using Weighted Probability Distributions
  8. Estimation of Bulk Melt-Temperature from In-Mold Thermal Sensors for Injection Molding, Part A: Method
  9. Mechanical Properties, Morphologies and Thermal Decomposition Kinetics of Poly(lactic acid) Toughened by Waste Rubber Powder
  10. Lithium Ion Conduction in PVdC-co-AN Based Polymer Blend Electrolytes Doped with Different Lithium Salts
  11. Stretch Blow Molding of Mineral Filled PET
  12. Enhanced Film Blowing of Polylactide by Incorporating Branched Chains and Stereocomplex Crystals
  13. Development of Antimicrobial Poly(∊-caprolactone)/Poly(lactic acid)/Silver Exchanged Montmorillonite Nanoblend Films with Silver Ion Release Property for Active Packaging Use
  14. Impact of Humid Environment on Structural and Mechanical Properties of Biobased Polylactide
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