A center heated die plate for an underwater pelletizer radiates heat outwardly to the extrusion orifices and die faces of the die plate thereby maintaining the die plate and extrusion orifices at an elevated temperature to obtain optimum flow of molten polymer through the extrusion orifices. In one embodiment, a cylindrical heating coil is placed in a hollow central core of the die plate and a plurality of peripheral heating elements are inserted in radial recesses distributed around an outer perimeter of the die plate to create an inner heat zone and an outer heat zone which are separately controllable.

 
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