Modified blend chamber solves critical start-up problems
Collaboration between DuPont and its blender supplier improves HDPE blending and increases plant productivity.
In the spring of 1984, shortly after start-up of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Company's high-density polyethylene [HDPE] plant in Matagorda, Tex., plant personnel discovered that the pellet blenders were not performing as expected.