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Bloomer Plastics Completes Expansion Program

(Flexpack)

June 03, 2014, Program includes a debottlenecking initiative, a plant expansion, and installation of a new cast film extrusion line   BLOOMER, WI | Bloomer Plastics, a producer of custom-engineered cast embossed ...

Windmoeller & Hoelscher’s Hans Deamer Retires

(News | New Products)

May 31, 2014, VP Andrew Wheeler will take over as leader of the manufacturer of printing, extrusion, and converting equipment   LINCOLN, RI | Windmoeller & Hoelscher Corp. announces that president and treasurer ...

Microphazer Films Offers Unique Ultra-Thin Film Products

(Tom’s Poly Ploys)

May 22, 2014, ... the extrusion industry for more than 30 years, and has invented a way to produce ultra-thin, un-oriented, amorphous polymer films.  I will review my interview with him in this blog. Microphazer Films, ...

Energy Sciences Announces EB Flexo Ink

(News | New Products)

May 16, 2014, ... providing effective ink trapping in the wet state. Only one EB dryer is required per press, eliminating all inter-station and end-of-press thermal dryers. Printers can EB laminate, extrusion laminate, ...

Processing Tips to Prevent Gauge Bands - Part 4

(Tom’s Poly Ploys)

May 12, 2014, ... guidelines that are applicable to most extrusion coating lines using modern equipment, processing low density polyethylene (LDPE).  Your equipment or materials may require special conditions not covered ...

Processing Tips to Prevent Gauge Bands - Part 3

(Tom’s Poly Ploys)

May 12, 2014, Part 3 of this mini series will discuss proper shutdown procedures to minimize or eliminate gauge bands in extrusion coated and cast film products. Now that we have successfully started up the extruder, ...

Processing Tips to Prevent Gauge Bands - Part 2

(Tom’s Poly Ploys)

May 12, 2014, Strategies to eliminate gauge bands in extrusion coating and cast film by using proper operating procedures. Last time I discussed ways to eliminate gauge bands in the extrusion coating process by ...

Processing Tips to Prevent Gauge Bands - Part 1

(Tom’s Poly Ploys)

May 08, 2014, ... bane of the extrusion coating converter, and to a lesser extent, cast and blown film producers.  Nothing has changed in this regard. I would say more than 90% of the extrusion coating lines I see (if ...

AIMCAL and SPE Come Together for Tech Conference

(Coating/Laminating)

April 20, 2014, SPE’s FlexPackCon is added to the AIMCAL fall conference, reportedly covering the industry from resins to extrusion to converting and packaging   FORT MILL | The Assn. of International Metallizers, ...

IML Seminar Coming in May

(Label/Tape)

April 16, 2014, ... current participants in the field. Updated yearly, the event provides a basic grounding in in-mold labeling and in-mold decorating as well as the fundamentals of extrusion blow molding, injection IML, ...

SAM NA Open House

(Tom’s Poly Ploys)

April 08, 2014, Hot off the press...SAM NA holds open house at it Phoenix, NY headquarters and Pilot Plant facilities. In a move to position itself as an alternate supplier of extrusion coating, cast film and laminating ...

NewPage Introduces Specialty Paper

(Flexpack)

March 19, 2014, FlexPack Essential flexible packaging papers for lamination extrusion applications is said to feature more renewable content   STEVENS POINT, WI | NewPage Corp., a supplier of specialty papers, announces ...

Gloucester Engineering Creates Two Divisions

(Coating/Laminating)

March 11, 2014, ... OEM Division will concentrate on the company’s line of traditional complete blown film, cast film, foam and sheet extrusion, bagmaking, and extrusion coating systems and equipment.  Laurent Cros has ...

BF Consulting Is In Business

(Coating/Laminating)

March 10, 2014, ... on extrusion coating processes since about 1990. He is willing to assist with processes and product sourcing for extrusion coating and cast film processes, as well as interpretation of polymer characterization ...

Z-Flute Boxes for Kitty Litter are Purr-fect

(Coating/Laminating)

March 08, 2014, ... pouches. The pouches, which are used for long-term storage of automotive electronics and metal parts, are 48-mil PET with 3.7 optical aluminum/92-ga PET with 3.7 optical aluminum/coextrusion of PE/conductive ...

Barrier Film Capacity Expanding at Next Generation Films

(Flexpack)

March 03, 2014, Orders three blown film extrusion lines from W&H LINCOLN, RI | Next Generation Films, based in Lexington, OH, has ordered three blown film extrusion lines from Windmoeller & Hoelscher to strengthen ...

Plastics are Alive and Well in Southeast Asia

(Tom’s Poly Ploys)

February 19, 2014, I had the opportunity to do some extrusion training recently in Southeast Asia, and all I can say is that plastics are alive and well there. I taught nearly 70 students over a 2-week period in Thailand, ...

Toray Plastics (America) Announces New Metallized BOPP

(Flexpack)

February 09, 2014, ... layer is resistant to crazing on one side. The other side is corona treated for excellent bond strength in cold-seal adhesive applications and in extrusion and adhesive three-ply laminations. It is available ...

Parkinson Technologies Expansion Ahead of Schedule

(News | New Products)

January 26, 2014, ... is driven by unique capabilities in developing systems and process technology for plastics biaxial and uniaxial orientation, extrusion melt filtration, primary winding, and slitting/rewinding converting ...

BJK Flexible Packaging Expands with Blown Film Line

(Flexpack)

January 22, 2014, Adds capacity with 5-layer Reifenhauser-Kiefel blown film line WICHITA, KS | BJK Flexible Packaging, a specialty films producer based in Louisville, KY, has expanded its film production capacity with ...