Film Extrusion
Boosting Extrusion Productivity-Part II of III: Optimize Product Changeover & Purging
Extrusion processors typically run a number of different products and resins.
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Solving the Puzzle of Chinese Bags
How do the Chinese get such high quality at such low cost? They have been accused of dumping, but Chinese bag makers are mostly small mom-and-pop 大象传媒es that survive on razor-thin profit margins. Their plants and the way they run them are like nothing you鈥檝e ever seen.
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Extrusion at NPE 2003
NPE is typically a competitive display of the biggest, most dramatic equipment machine builders can muster.
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Melt Fracture or Interfacial Instability? Different Ills Needs Different Cures
In blown film, clarity is often considered synonymous with quality.
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A Family Film Business Goes High-Tech
Papa, as Norman Rabenstein is fondly called on the shop floor, brought his family up to make plastic film.
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Modest Investment, Big Payoff For Blown Film Plant
In blown film, there is certainly more than one way to skin a cat.
Read MoreFilm Extruder Tries Do-It-Yourself Electric Power
One of the country鈥檚 largest makers of stretch film and bags, the Sigma Plastics Group based in Lyndhurst, N.J., has embarked on an experiment in generating its own electricity.
Read MoreStretching the Limits of Film Innovation
The four partners who started FlexTech Packaging Inc. in Cincinnati three years ago all came from high-profile jobs with big packaging companies like James River and Jefferson Smurfitt.
Read MoreFlatter Film Extrusion For the Win
When Charter Films began operations three years ago in Superior, Wis., its goal was to supply high-end converting markets in the region with blown films of better quality than those of much larger rivals.
Read MoreCatch a Falling Company
Peter Schulz had recently retired from Hoechst Celanese in Dallas, and Richard Nurse was a consultant, when both were called in to help shape up BPI Packaging Technologies Inc. in North Dighton, Mass.
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