Allan Griff shares some of the reasons we should be thankful for the creature comforts made possible by extrusion. He also reprises his 11 key principles of extrusion.
Beyers Plastics (Puurs, Belgium) will be integrated into the Tekni-Films business unit, which produces polyethylene packaging for the pharmaceutical, medical and other sectors.
Representing approximately 19% of the $167 billion U.S. packaging industry, flexible packaging is the second largest packaging segment behind corrugated paper and just ahead of bottles and miscellaneous rigid plastic packaging.
The 145,000-square-foot facility will include state-of-the-art advanced manufacturing systems that will “redefine the way that dies are built,” said the company.
From a new kind of liquid-containing resealable pouch to “stealth” wraps and first-of-a-kind refill bottles for ecommerce and more, plastics played a prominent role at October’s international packaging exhibition.
In the early 1980s, Wheeler patented the Davis-Standard barrier feedscrew design, which quickly became the industry’s premier feedscrew and gave Davis-Standard (Pawcatuck, CT) a global technical presence.
The EU’s Single-Use Plastics Directive Proposal mandates a reduction in the consumption of PET trays, a circular packaging product with a high amount of recycled content.
