Corona Treater Improves Bonding for OPP/CPP on Nordmeccanica Laminator

Golden Eagle Extrusions is willing to find ways to invest in new equipment to expand services to its customers. With a little help from the 2009 stimulus package, the company recently purchased a new Nordmeccanica Super Simplex SL Laminator. The machine is designed to handle a 60-inch-wide web at speeds of 1,300 fpm. The primary structure Golden…

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Custom Coating Specialist Thrives with Diverse Use of Surface Treaters

Wausau Coated Corona Treater

“We’ve been incorporating things we’ve learned about coating in the last 20 years and building specialized lines for our specific processes,” says Chris Stogbauer, director of engineering for Wausau Coated Products. Wausau Coated Products expertly serves small through large companies requiring non-commodity, specialty pressure-sensitive substrates and label materials. Stogbauer and his team tailor its machinery…

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Co-extrusion & Adhesion Capabilities Give Scapa N.A. an Edge

Surface Treater and Ozone Generator

Scapa North America’s purchase of Great Lakes Technologies in Syracuse, New York is an impressive addition to their well established line of specialty pressure-sensitive adhesive films, tapes, and compounds. According to Tom Bezigian, Business Development manager and founder of Great Lakes Technologies, the Syracuse operation is capable of producing a tremendously wide range of highly…

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Flexible Extrusion Line is a Novel Idea

Amcor's Surface Treating Line

What does an already-successful converter do when Opportunity knocks? If healthcare customers are at the door, and they’re asking for high-barrier packaging capability that you don’t have enough of, you’d better get it. And that’s exactly what Amcor Flexibles Madison, WI did. In 2001 the company, then Rexam Healthcare Flexibles, undertook an aggressive plant expansion…

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