Skip Thacker
BIOGRAPHIC BACKGROUND
EDUCATION:B. A. in Chemistry,Wabash College, 1956
MBA Program, Xavier University, 1960-61
TECHNICAL ORGANIZATIONS: Society of Plastic Engineers, Fellow Emeritus Grade Member; Vinyl Division, The Chlorophiles.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES:Over 35 years in research, development, technical services, sales and marketing activities centered primarily on polymer additives to improve processing and end-use properties of plastics. Currently retired, but available for PVC help.
Articles by this Author
PVC Pipe Extrusion Start-up Procedure
- By Skip Thacker
- Published 04/8/2007
- Extrusion
- Unrated
Rigid PVC Pipe: Start-Up
Although this procedure describes CM-80 twin screw pipe extrusion start-up using pressure sizing, many of the same steps are also necessary for any extrusion process, regardless of end product or extruder type.
Basic Polymer Chemistry--a Tutorial
- By Skip Thacker
- Published 10/11/2006
- Plastics & Polymers
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POLYMER CHEMISTRY
A THUMBNAIL TUTORIAL FOR HIGH SCHOOL OR EARLY COLLEGE STUDENTS)
By Skip Thacker
What is a “Polymer”?----- Repeating units, as LONG CHAINS, (straight chained or branched chained) of one or more types of MONOMER molecules.
Poly (many) mers (units),<--------Mono (one) mer (unit)
Rigid PVC: Trouble-shooting Guide for Twin Screw Extrusion
- By Skip Thacker
- Published 02/20/2006
- Extrusion
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A listing of problems and possible remedies at each stage of the extrusion process is presented,from the hopper, down the barrel, out the die, sizing, cooling, haul-off, and through the saw.
Rigid PVC Handbook: Raw Mat'l Selection
- By Skip Thacker
- Published 02/20/2006
- Commodity Plastics
- Unrated
RIGID PVC EXTRUSION HANDBOOK
FOREWORD
PVC processing dates back to the industry’s beginning in the late 1930’s and early 1940’s, when oiled litharge, white lead, and the first metal-containing liquid stabilizers ( cadmium, tin) were some early additives used in the germinating vinyl industry. Over the next twenty years PVC grew to become one of the “big three” of the United States plastics industry at the billion pound per year level of consumption---yet without rigid PVC extrusion applications, which remained essentially undeveloped up to the early 1960’s. Beginning in the mid 1960’s, the uses of rigid PVC extruded products grew at an increasing rate which even outpaced the total PVC industry growth rate, to the point that rigid vinyl extrusion now consumes a greater amount of PVC resin (almost 70%) than any other process. Primary extrusion products include pipe, conduit, siding, window profile, foam-core pipe, solid and foamed profile, and sheet, with fencing and docking among emerging newer applications.
RIGID PVC EXTRUSION: Attributes of single vs.twin screw extruders
- By Skip Thacker
- Published 02/15/2006
- Extrusion
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PVC--Polyvinylchloride What is PVC?
- By Skip Thacker
- Published 02/13/2006
- Commodity Plastics
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PVC, Polyvinyl chloride, or "Vinyl" is the second largest volume plastic resin produced and consumed worldwide. Volume estimates for year 2000 world PVC production are in the 44 Billion pound range (20 MM metric tons), with about 14 billion pounds (6.35 MM metric tons), 32%, from US producers.
