NOVACHEM Offers Free Industry White Paper


Technical Brief Provides Plastics Processors Vital Insights Toward Meeting Goals for Increased Purity & Productivity

Helps Production and Maintenance Managers Identify and Evaluate Available Options for Practical and Effective Purging Solutions

(DEC, 2006 - BRIDGEPORT, Conn.) NOVACHEM, a leading provider of safe and effective purging solutions for plastics processors, has announced the availability of a free industry White Paper that tackles head-on various purging issues and dilemmas facing today's plastics processing managers.

The 12-page technical brief, entitled "Toward a Systematic Approach to Evaluation and Resolution of Purging Issues in Thermoplastics Processing", includes an abstract overview and a four-page appendix of useful tools, such as a data collection sheet, a factors checklist, and a cost comparison matrix.

Written by NOVACHEM General Manager Frank Van Haste, the document offers approaches to contemporary purging issues, including reducing product contamination and increasing the efficiency of color and/or resin changes. The report also discusses the impact of these challenges on overall productivity, and provides solutions for increased efficiency.

"An informed and systematic technical approach - the antithesis of the typical 'episodic' or ad hoc approach - is now required to truly minimize the effects of contamination while maximizing productivity," adds Van Haste.

"As an industry leader, NOVACHEM has made it a priority to provide meaningful resources and solutions for its many constituents in plastics processing," comments Frank Winner, V.P. Marketing & Sales, "and this White Paper is just one of many steps we are actively taking."

To request a free hard copy of the White Paper, call NOVACHEM toll-free at 1-800-762-3984. Fax requests can be submitted to 203-367-0647, or mailed to NOVACHEM at 1450 Barnum Avenue, Bridgeport, CT 06610

A free, downloadable PDF version is available online at the company's website, www.novachem.net.

NOVACHEM is known for manufacturing safe, effective purging products for the plastics processing industry since 1989. Providing practical purging solutions - including the widely used SuperNova(TM) and Novapurge(TM) chemical purging compounds, and the, easy-to-use, InstaPurge(TM) cleaning compound, Powerful purging solutions only from NOVACHEM'..

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