Exploring the: Film Extrusion Zone
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- Flexible Package Takes Aim at Rigid Containers
- Leading sheet processor Clear Lam Packaging, Inc., Elk Grove Village, Ill., made three announcements during October’s Pack Expo International show in Chicago.
Article Published: 11/29/2012
- Modified MDO Gives Higher Film Yields
- Hosokawa Alpine American, Natick, Mass., is offering new machine-direction orientation (MDO) technology that is said to dramatically reduce the amount of film to be edge-trimmed compared with other MDO designs.
Article Published: 11/29/2012
- ISO Poly Avoids Economic Woes With High-Value Films
- Positioning itself on the high end of the blown-film market helped insulate this blown film processor from the recent economic downturn.
Article Published: 10/26/2012
- ‘Light’ Grooves Offer Big Boosts in Film Processing
- Blown film is main target for technology billed as an option to smooth bore feedthroats in extrusion.
Article Published: 10/26/2012
- Gloucester & Dolci Share Stretch-Winding Technology
- Gloucester Engineering Co., Inc., Gloucester, Mass., and Dolci Extrusion S.r.l. of Italy have announced that they will share winding technology so that each firm can offer the other’s winders for cast stretch film.
Article Published: 10/1/2012
- Cloeren Breaks Ground on Plant Expansion
- Leading flat-die and feedblock supplier Cloeren Incorporated recently broke ground on a multimillion-dollar expansion of its Orange, Texas, Plant 2 site that will add about 37,500 ft² to the facility.
Article Published: 10/1/2012
- Novel Materials Stretch Process Capabilities
- The potential for new or unusual materials to broaden the application potential of standard plastics processes was explored in a number of papers at April’s SPE ANTEC conference in Orlando, Fla.
Article Published: 9/28/2012
- MuCell Extrusion Gains Dow and Styron Film and Sheet Technology
- MuCell Extrusion LLC, Woburn, Mass., made two moves last month that further expanded its capabilities in flat film and sheet foaming.
Article Published: 8/28/2012
- Making Old Bags New Again
- This year, leading film processor and bagmaker Hilex company reprocessed 25 million lb of post-consumer material in its Bag2Bag recycling program.
Article Published: 8/27/2012
- Meet the World’s Largest Seven-Layer Blown Film System
- Raven will process barrier blown film for energy, industrial, environmental, construction, and agricultural markets on giant new Davis-Standard seven-layer line.
Article Published: 7/30/2012
