The factory, shown above, purchases the plastic construction templates that have been re- used up to 30 times. The factory has an annual production capacity of 1,000,000 plastic construction templates. In 2012 300,000 templates were produced.
Raw materials for the plastic construction templates are heated and extruded. Raw materials will be obtained from reclamation companies that pay for discarded plastic and from templates that have been re used up to 30 times and sold back to the factory to be recycled as shown below. |
The raw materials after being heat treated are extruded and pressed by rollers to produce sheets of plastic templates of the specified sizes for the different types of templates.
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The plastics extrusions are passed through rollers, shown above, to be formed into specified sizes and then transferred to conveyers for transportation through the production line.
The plastic templates are prepared for shipment and stored until they are picked up and delivered to the construction site. |
At the job site workers fabricate forms from the plastic templates. The panels can be sawed, drilled, and nailed to make the different forms that are needed to contain poured concrete.
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