Plastic film supplier Rani Plast is planning to install a new Davis-Standard line with blown film die, which will enable the company to produce both high barrier agriculture films and non barrier conventional PE-based films.
Scheduled for installation in spring 2016 at Rani Plast's facility in Terjarv, Finland, the line with a 2.3m seven-layer Centrex IBC die is said to become the largest of its type Davis-Standard has built to date.
The line also features seven Davis-Standard MAC extruders fitted with DSB screws and continuous screen changers to deliver a quality melt at cool controlled temperatures, thereby allowing the company to achieve maximum output rate and film quality.
Davis-Standard said that the die and tower will be able to produce a bubble up to 22m unfolded at high output rates with a dual lip, automatic profile control air ring.
The die is claimed to process film with optimized coex ratios for thicker skin layers and low-percentage core layers for barrier-based structures as well as conventional non-barrier structures requiring a variety of polymer blends.
Rani Plast managing director Mikael Ahlback said: "Davis-Standard's equipment has performed well for us, which is why we chose them for this blown film line.
"This line will be installed at our facility in Terjarv, Finland. It will support the production of high barrier and non-barrier film structures ranging in thickness from 30 to 200 microns. The die design uses concepts that will allow us to optimize the amount of high cost EVOH resin used in our barrier film formulation."
Rani Plast operates nine factories in five countries including Finland, Sweden, Russia, Ukraine and Slovakia where it produces agricultural films, packaging and converter grade films, laminated and printed products for the food industry, hygiene films and industrial goods packaging.
