- A family film business goes high-tech.
(Strategies).
Papa, as Norman Rabenstein is fondly called on the shop floor, brought his family up to make plastic film. He founded Allied Extruders Inc. in Long Island City, N.Y, in 1969 to make packaging film and later garment bags. Since then, three generations of the family have been involved in ......
- Advances in Blown Film Conference.
December 7-8 2005 Miami, FL, USA An intensive 2-day program devoted to technology developments in blown film ... learn how to extrude a better film with increased line speeds at a reduced cost! Program Agenda Day 1 * Newest technologies in blown film ... from heavy-duty bags up to agriculture ......
- Compact blown film line has syn-torque
motors.
A three-layer coex blown film line displayed last month at the K Show in Germany by Ghioldi srl in Marnate, Italy, uses permanent-magnet, synchronous torque ("syn-torque") motors from Parker Hannifin Corp., Cleveland. This is the first known extrusion application of Parker's syn-torque motors. They appeared on a line with ......
- Capacitance thickness gauges: new designs break old
barriers.
Capacitance gauges are attempting to solve their historic limitations in blown film thickness measuring, in particular their inability to measure barrier films. Virtually all makers of capacitance gauges brought new models targeting barrier film to the K 2004 show in Dusseldorf last fall. On display there were new heads, unusual ......
- Extrusion outputs go through theroof.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Dramatic production demonstrations of cast and blown film set throughput records on the show floor in Dusseldorf. More high-speed demos were hosted by several German OEMs' at their plants during the show. Not only have extruders speeded up, but several vendors displayed faster downstream chill rolls, winders, and ......
- High barrier film lines.
Pechiney Plastic Packaging Inc. (PPPI), has added four blown film lines at its Neenah, Wis., plant to keep up with growing demand in the marketplace for multi-layer high barrier films. The highly advanced technology of the blown film equipment creates better roll profile all the way across the web, resulting ......
- Eagle soars
Eagle Film Extruders, Inc. (Grand Rapids, MI) goes to great lengths to produce the "flattest" film possible. An ISO 9001:2000 certified company that supplies blown film for a variety of coating, printing and laminating applications, it only uses prime grade resins and state-of-the-art equipment to create consistent, flat film. "Our ......