Film Extrusion
Solve Five Common Problems in Blown Film Coextrusion
The blown film industry has evolved from monolayer film structures to multilayer ones for a variety of food and non-food packaging applications. Here are typical problems with these structures and tips on how to solve them.
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Film Processor Launches First-Ever Mobile App for the Flexible Packaging Industry
Calculating, converting, and planning is now easier and faster than with new app from Polykar.
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Dual-Frame MDO Boosts Efficiency
‘Revolutionary’ dual-frame technology allows for high production speeds while significantly reducing cleaning and service times.
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Petoskey Plastics Expands to Texas
New $30-million facility will help film extruder meet growing demand.
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Updated Machine-Direction Orientators
Film MDOs are enhanced to improve efficiency and reliability while cutting on energy consumption.
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New Die-Cleaning System Boosts Efficiency for Film Processor
IPG’s investment in Schwing’s cleaning system impacts processor’s bottom line by getting dirty film dies back in production quickly.
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Steinbeck Named CEO of W&H
Succeeds long-time CEO Jürgen Vutz, who will join the company’s Supervisory Board beginning the new year.
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Film Processor Boosts Line Performance with Air-Ring Retrofit
Air-ring upgrade results in output gains up to 23% for leading film processor in Indonesia. Gauge uniformity also improved.
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Extrusion: MDO Stretches Film-Performance Limits
Systems rely on infrared heaters inside the cylinder.
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