CHINAPLAS 2013: W&H puts FILMEX cast film line into focus

German based Windm?ller & H?lscher (D-49525 Lengerich) will inform visitors to CHINAPLAS 2013 on the latest developments for their blown and cast film lines with the main focus on the FILMEX Cast film line. In China W&H is represented by Windmoeller & Hoelscher Asia (Hong Kong) and Johs. Rieckermann (Hong Kong, Shanghai and Beijing)

The growing market for flexible packaging in China is one the most fascinating playgrounds in the industry. On the way to a modern society, China’s enormous demand for flexible packaging and especially in food packaging creates the need for state-of-the-art equipment. With rapid growth in quantity also the focus on quality is gaining more and more importance. Knowing this trend, Windm?ller & H?lscher with its’ FILMEX cast film line, is offering the right package in film production for high quality and high output at the same time.

The Windm?ller & H?lscher FILMEX is designed to answer the market demands as it is able to produce a wide range of films with high output. This modular cast film line can be individually configured to meet different needs, extruding barrier, PP, stretch or surface protection film

The FILMEX operates on the chill-roll principle. Resin pellets are melted in the extruders. In the feed block, streams of melt converge and are subsequently spread out to a web width of up to 5 m, then solidified by rapid cooling on the chill-roll. The immediate freezing results in low crystallinity of the film, leading to excellent optical and mechanical film properties at high output.

Being capable of producing barrier film with 11-layers or up to 17-nano-layer in a special configuration, the FILMEX is the right tool for complex barrier film applications. Joining multiple functional layers, the properties of the single layers are combined to achieve better overall film properties. For example in food packaging these improvements are serving both the manufacturer and the end consumer because the content is better protected providing it with a longer shelf-life.

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