Among the first instruments plastics molders, extruders, and compounders are likely to consider when outfitting a new lab is a melt-flow indexer or “melt indexer.” Known as an extrusion plastometer in ...

In order to understand the benefits and drawbacks of the melt-flow-rate (MFR) test completely, it is essential to know something about how the test is carried out. The methodology is included in ASTM ...

This is the second of eight articles from our Nozzle Knowledge Series. Prefer to watch a video, click here. Flow rate, the volume of water passing through a nozzle, per unit of time, is clearly an ...