Volume cost and important (filler mixing)
Volume Cost and its importance in Plastic applications and woven sacks The Volume Cost of a Raw Material input is the purchase cost of a unit volume of the material. It is extremely important to understand the Volume cost of Polymers and its additives as it plays a key role in their selection for a particular application. Compounding Costs and its implications: Mineral fillers are fine particle Inorganic powders. The particles agglomerate due to Vaan Der Waal forces, and it is essential to break up these agglomerates to disperse the filler particles uniformly in the Polymer Matrix. This requires energy and is additional to the energy required for melt formation and mixing. The energy requirements and compounding cost depend on various factors, like the physical form of the polymer, whether it is polar or non polar, the type of filler, whether the filler is untreated or treated and processing behavior. Physical Form • If the Polyme...