Flat screens, capacity screening with

Flat screens are vibrated or shaken or impacted with bouncing balls. Inclined screens vibrate at 600-7000 strokes/min and are used for down to 38 pm although capacity drops off sharply below 200 /im. Reciprocating screens operate in the range 30-1000 strokes/min and handle sizes down to 0.25 mm at the higher speeds. 

Matsnshita, best known in retail outlets for its Panasonic brand, is planning to invest, with its Toray chemicals group partner, 1.57 billion in the construction of what is set to be the world s largest PDP plant as a means of establishing market leadership of the flat-screen television market. The plant, with a planned annual production capacity of six million panels, is scheduled to open in 2007. Matsushita will then have an annual production capacity of eleven million panels placing it in the position of world number one ahead of Korea s SDI company. 

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