Extrusion: Film & Sheet

Through the acquisition, Curbell (Orchard Park, NY) expands on its 77 years of growth and gains a new sales representative, who will transition over from Great Lakes Plastic Co. to ensure there is no disruption of service.

Toray (Tokyo) has leveraged proprietary polymer engineering and film deposition technologies to develop an elastic film that eliminates tradeoffs between flexibility and restorative capabilities.

Newly developed AddWorks PKG 906 Circle for polyolefin film helps plastic packaging producers to achieve critical sustainability and business goals, according to Clariant (Muttenz, Switzerland).

BOPET is in the enviable position of being hugely versatile, not only for packaging, but also for diverse and growing applications in solar panels, touch screens, capacitors and identity cards.

How award-winning converter TC Transcontinental (Montreal) is pushing the boundaries of what flexible packaging can do within a circular economy.

The annual “extrusionista” get-together, held near Chicago this year, explored a range of topics from optimizing barrel temperatures and purging operations to precisely controlling thickness and cut length in pipe and profile extrusions. 

PVC and phthalate plasticizers have dropped out of the news cycle of late, but they are still front of mind for plastics processors and materials suppliers, as evidenced by news from a supplier to medical device OEMs and producer of calendered films.

Plastic Systems, PETsolutions, Blauwer and Ergomen, four leading global suppliers operating under the Pegaso (Padova, Italy) umbrella of injection molding, extrusion, auxiliary equipment and services, will exhibit at two stands in halls 10 and 11.