Cartonplast is a trademark that was first given by Covema spa (

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) in the early seventies to a specific model of

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line manufactured and sold world wide by the aforesaid. In subsequent years such name was used as well to identify the product made by a Cartonplast extrusion line that is to say plastic corrugated sheet as well known as plastic hollow profile sheet or

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twin wall sheet. The main raw material used to manufacture Cartonplast sheets are PP (

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) and PET (

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). The Cartonplast

is carried out by using a unique front spinneret plate applied to a flat T-die equipped with restrictor bar (this technology was invented and patented by

Marco Terragni Marco Terragni (26 April 1930 – 29 June, 2006) was an Italian entrepreneur and inventor. In 1953, he founded Covema one of the biggest conglomerate in the world plastic sector along with Dino Terragni and Felice Zosi. Biography Marco Terragn ...

during the seventies) to enable using thermoplastic polymers with different MFI (range 0.9 to 3).

History

started to work on this technology in 1970 with an engineering team of Riap spa and he patented it in 1974. In the year 1991 there was big development of this technology when Y.C. Wang of

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, of

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, was meeting Terragni and discussing with him the foundation of the biggest Cartonplast factory worldwide to be installed in

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. In 1992 Wang and Terragni signed deal for the supply of 15 Cartonplast extrusion lines for the Lolita Plant (Inteplast Group) that still today is manufacturing Cartonplast sheets under the registered trade name of Intepro or

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. Cartonplast extrusion lines are still today manufactured by company Agripak S.r.l of Milan, Italy.

Cartonplast feature

Cartonplast sheets is lightweight (hollow structure), non-toxic, waterproof, shockproof, long-lasting material that resists corrosion. Compared with cardboard, Cortoplast has the advantages of being waterproof and colorfast. The Cartonplast composition can be altered to add anti-static properties using the

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technique. This particular

produces a conductive, anti-static plastic hollow board sheet. (Conductive plate surface resistivity can be controlled between 103 ≈105; anti-static sheet surface resistivity can be controlled between 106 ≈1011.)

Applications

Cartonplast is sturdy, light, resilient, and inexpensive, making it ideal for the fabrication of reusable plastic boxes, reusable box pallets, reusable payer pads, partitions walls, facades, beam forms, advertising panels, point of sales and many others among which even small boats. Walmart cartonplastbox

Modifying cartonplast sheets

Cartonplast sheets can be modified by adding foaming agents, colors, anti UV, antistatic additives and flame retardant.

External links

* Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office: Trademar
Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office: Trademarks
* Cartonplast Sheet Extrusion Line
Hollow Profile Sheet , Plastic Processing Machinery , AGRIPAK
* CartonPlast paten
Extruder and sizer apparatus for hollow plastic sections
* Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office: Trademark
Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office: Trademarks
* Plastics Technology, Volume 24,Edizioni 1-
Plastics Technology
* Pira Packaging Abstracts, Volume 3
Packaging Abstracts
* Kenya Gazette 19 lug 197
Kenya Gazette
* Official website of Cartonplast LL
Cartonplast® , Karton
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