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Compounds
& colourings
Photo courtesy of Sikora AG (Adapter) & P WHall Ltd (Compounds)
EuroWire – November 2010
44
Thewiremakerproceedswithcarewhenenhancingtheperformance
of materials by compounding.
Attention must be paid to the individual properties, alone or in
combination, of alloys and blends; modifiers and fillers; base
resins; flame retardants; blowing agents; even purge compounds
for improving the compounding process itself.
And, not least, colour and colour retention.