CONVERTING Innovator keeps growing
2009 Sustainability Award winner Next Generation Films orders its fifth W&H coex-film line.
PRESS RELEASE -- Converting Magazine, 2/3/2010 11:51:15 AM
A W&H VAREX coex-film line will be installed at Next Generation Films by this summer.Windmoeller & Hoelscher Corporation is pleased to announce the sale of a 3-layer VAREX® co-extrusion line to Next Generation Films of Lexington, OH. This order marks the fifth W&H blown-film line at Next and the second W&H line ordered by the company in the past nine months.
Next Generation Films was honored with a 2009 CONVERTING Innovator Award for Sustainability. Read the full story HERE.
This new high-output, 134-in. VAREX line with grooved feed extruders (105.30/135.30/105.30D), a 35-in. OPTIFIL® P2 die, and FILMATIC® T dual turret winder is scheduled to begin production in late summer 2010. Based on Next's resin recipes, the line is expected to reach an output level of 20 million lbs/yr.
Next Generation Films, Inc. was founded in 1994 and is a supplier of specialty films to a variety of markets, including food packaging, automobile, courier, manufactured housing and protective packaging segments. They are now the largest film producer in Ohio, with a quickly growing blown-film plant that now boasts 23 lines (www.nextgeneration.com)
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