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About PFFC's Contributing Editor

(Uncategorized)

October 16, 2011, ... quality assurance, manufacturing, marketing, operations, finance, and expert witness experience in the blown film, cast film, orienting, extrusion coating, and converting industries. He is owner of PLC ...

PCR Milked for Flex-Pack

(Flexpack)

August 21, 2011, ... at Tyler to have excellent extrusion equipment and a very solid technical staff,” says Harji. “We found that we could achieve 5 percent to 10 percent mixtures of PC resins in our mid- to high-density PE ...

NDC Diversifies into Metals Business

(Controls News)

August 11, 2011, ... a leading manufacturer of web gauging equipment for the plastics, rubber, nonwoven, and extrusion-coated businesses, acquires the Alleur, Belgium-based IRM Group, manufacturers of high-technology measuring ...

Education Training: School's in Sessio

(Trends/Management)

July 31, 2011, ... example, if they have 20 operators who need to understand more about extrusion, we could set up something online for them.” Webinars that bring industry suppliers into the “classroom” are offered once ...

FlexSol Packaging Grows with W&H Blown Film Line

(Flexpack News)

July 28, 2011, ... is expected to begin production by Q4 2011. The line is 87 in. wide and is equipped with a stacked MULTICOOL D air ring and FILMATIC TX dual turret winder. Sigma Plastics has more than 20 coextrusion ...

ALOX Coater & CPP Film Line Debuting in Egypt

(Flexpack News)

July 13, 2011, ... claimed far superior to those provided by other transparent flexible packaging materials like PVDC-based structures and EVOH coextrusions. Also at this site is an 8.7-m-wide, 500 mpm state-of-the ...

Blown Stretch Film Line To Boost Growth for Sigma

(Flexpack News)

July 10, 2011, Sigma Stretch Film has purchased a three-layer Davis-Standard blown film line for its Shelbyville, KY, facility to support business growth. Planned for a mid-2011 installation BRIDGEWATER, NJ | Sigma Stretch ...

Update on World BOPET Market Trends

(Flexpack News)

July 07, 2011, ... The report is considered a must-read for suppliers of polyester raw materials, extrusion equipment manufacturers, manufacturers of BOPET films and their competitors (including aluminum foil and paper producers), ...

Coating Matters: Slot Die Coating Fundamentals

(Coating/Laminating)

June 30, 2011, ... this Ultracoat V adjustable lip slot die and support system from Extrusion Dies Industries, Chippewa Falls, WI. Roll-to-roll coating industry expert Mark Miller, owner of Coating Tech Service, has 14+ ...

Drives Motors: From Zero to 800

(Label/Tape)

June 30, 2011, ... Technologies to evaluate how to proceed because Circonix had performed a similar extrusion line move four years earlier at Mondi's Lancaster plant in the US. Plus, Fulton Machinery, Circonix's machinery ...

R&D Center Adds Coating Line

(Flexpack)

June 30, 2011, PAWCATUCK, CT | Davis-Standard has installed a seven-layer cast coextrusion film and sheet pilot line at the Pasadena, TX, Research and Technical Center PAWCATUCK, CT | Davis-Standard has installed a seven-layer ...

People

(Trends/Management)

June 30, 2011, Gary Edwards becomes CEO of Extrusion Dies Industries, Chippewa Falls, WI. At Hewlett Packard, Palo Alto, CA, Sumeer Chandra and Francois Martin will Gary Edwards becomes CEO of Extrusion Dies Industries, ...

Splice Film at High Speeds

(Slit)

June 30, 2011, ... from films and nonwovens to paper products and is said to be well suited for all solutions coaters, extrusion coaters, laminators, and printers. Davis-Standard | 860-599-1010 | www.davis-standard.com ...

Exopack Recapitalizes Transactions

(Flexpack News)

June 20, 2011, ... in Spartanburg, SC, Exopack is a full-service plastic and paper flexible packaging solutions manufacturer that specializes in substrate development, film extrusion, printing, lamination and converting ...

Technical Report: Up & Running

(Slit)

May 31, 2011, ... automated knife placement, tabbing, and different slitting methods. As the last step in the converting process, slitting and rewinding carries the value-added weight of all plant processes: extrusion, ...

Capacity Needed

(Slit)

May 31, 2011, ... Production Established in 1957, the Plemsa Group produces a range of flexible packaging materials, mainly for food applications, with facilities for blown film extrusion and coextrusion, flexo printing, ...

Post Consumer Resin Gets New Life from Milk Jugs and Water Bottles

(Flexpack News)

May 18, 2011, ... site audits. After finding two solid suppliers, the Tyler plant tried various formulas to blend pc resin with new materials. “We are fortunate at Tyler to have excellent extrusion equipment and a very ...

Make Peelable Lids

(Flexpack)

April 30, 2011, Appeel 22D843 lidding solution is said to provide an easy and effective way to make peelable lids for retortable PP packages. Sealant resin is pellet-blended Appeel 22D843 lidding solution is said to provide ...

EVENTS

(News Clips Archive)

April 30, 2011, ... & Mixing, AIMCAL Converting School, Best Western Inn & Suites, Ontario, CA; www.convertingschool.com 30-1 | TAPPI European PLACE Conference, Polymers, Laminations, Adhesives, Coatings, Extrusions Div., ...

Atlas Sells Titan Compact Slitter to Mexico-Based Plemsa

(Slit News)

April 19, 2011, ... applications with facilities for blown film extrusionand co-extrusion, flexo printing, lamination, slitting and bag production. Plemsa has production facilities in Monterrey and at its group company Plastinal ...