Making Sense of Tube Extrusion and Its Uses
You've likely encountered tube extrusion today without even thinking twice about it, whether you were watering your garden with a flexible hose or using a straw for an afternoon iced coffee. It is one of those behind-the-scenes manufacturing workhorses that handles a massive amount of the heavy lifting in our modern world. At its heart, the concept is pretty straightforward: you melt down a material—usually some type of plastic or metal—and shove it through a shaped opening to create long, continuous hollow shapes. ...