Thermoforming of plastic sheets
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The activity generating the emissions is thermoforming of plastic sheets. The reference product is thermoforming of plastic sheets. This is delivering the service of thermoforming of plastic sheets. Thermoforming is the a purely stretching technique of manufacture of three-dimensional mouldings from flat plastic preforms such as films or sheets, under the influence of heat and pressure or vacuum. The range of products that can be manufactured by this process includes packaging containers, bulky moldings such as swimming pools, automobile components such as dashboards and passenger compartment panels. The preferred materials for processing include amorphous thermoplastics [PVC, polystyrene (PS), acrylonitrile - butadiene - styrene (ABS), styrene - acrylonitrile (SAN), cellulose acetate butyrate (CAB), PMMA, and PC], as well as semicrystalline materials (PP, PE,PETP) and special laminates. This service activity represents thermoforming of plastic sheets of 200 microns to 2 mm thickness in plastic packaging for the food industry. The activity refers to an input of 1 kg of plastic sheets but the amount of plastic processed is not included. Thus, this service should be used along with 1 kg of suitable material. The preferred materials for processing include amorphous thermoplastics [PVC, polystyrene (PS), acrylonitrile - butadiene - styrene (ABS), styrene - acrylonitrile (SAN), cellulose acetate butyrate (CAB), PMMA, and PC], as well as semicrystalline materials (PP, PE,PETP) and special laminates that economically combine the favorable properties of several polymers in one film. The reference product amount is 1. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is ordinary ordinary transforming activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation here for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.11/cutoff/dataset/13423/documentation.
Property | Value |
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Name | Thermoforming of plastic sheets |
Sector | Materials and Manufacturing |
Category | Chemical Products |
Source | ecoinvent |
Source Dataset | Cut-off Cumulative LCIA v3.11 |
Region | |
Unit Type | |
Year | 2012 |
Year Released | 2024 |
Emission Factor |
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LCA Activity | unknown |
Supported CO2e Calculation Method | AR5, AR6 |
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