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Profile extrusion is a production technique to make polymer profiles and hollow tubes. At a certain distance after the die exit the polymer extrudate is guided into a cooling chamber, where the polymer is cooled extensively to set the part dimensions. Uniform cooling in the cooling chamber is required to avoid warpage and twisting of the extrudate due to differential shrinkage. The effect of extrudate...