Extrusion - co-extrusion (of plastic sheets)

The activity generating the emissions is extrusion, co-extrusion of plastic sheets. The Reference Product is extrusion, co-extrusion. This is delivering the service of extrusion, co-extrusion. The process of co-extrusion includes two or more molten materials, combined in a die under pressure. Examples of co-extrusion include cable insulation and packaging films, where composite films with up to seven layers are used. The service of co-extrusion refers to an input of 1 kg of plastic pellets but the amount of plastic pellets processed is not included. Thus, it should be used along 1 kg of thermoplastic material (e.g. polyethylene (PE), polypropylene, acetal, acrylic, nylon, polystyrene, polyvinyl chloride (PVC), acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) and polycarbonate). The Reference Product amount is 1. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is ordinary transforming activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.12/cutoff/dataset/12468/documentation