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Continental Structural Plastics (CSP, Auburn Hills, Mich., U.S.), a Teijin Group (Tokoyo, Japan) company and manufacturer of composite components, is expanding its facility in Sarepta, La., U.S. with the purchase of a Dieffenbacher (Eppingen, Germany) direct-long-fiber thermoplastic molding (D-LFT) line that includes a press with a pressing force of 2,500 tonnes (25,000 kilonewtons). CSP says it will use the D-LFT line, scheduled to begin operating in the first quarter of 2022, to produce tailgate covers for pickup trucks.
Prior to this announcement, the company notes, CSP has already been operating three Dieffenbacher D-LFT lines with identically constructed presses in Sarepta for 20 years.
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It was reported in December that, in order to help thermoplastic component manufacturers capitalize on increased demand for their products particularly with the shift toward e-mobility and a circular economy Dieffenbacher GmbH (Eppingen, Germany) has increased the application and component flexibility and throughput of its direct-long-fiber thermoplastic molding (D-LFT) plants. According to the company, this added flexibility enables the use of recycled polymers while also increasing plant performance.
Dieffenbacher D-LFT plants typically use a two-machine technology (Dieffenbacher recently manufactured a modified version of this for a customer, which does not require a second extruder) with two extruders whose parameters such as speed, temperature, etc. can be set independently of each other. In the first extruder, plastic and additives are melted and processed into a homogeneous mixture, while in the second extruder, glass fibers are r