Next Generation Films Orders 5th VAREX Co-extrusion Line from Windmoeller & Hoelscher
LINCOLN, RI - Windmoeller & Hoelscher Corporation is pleased to announce the sale of a
3-layer VAREX® co-extrusion line to Next Generation Films (Next) of Lexington, Ohio. This order marks the fifth W&H blown film line at Next and the second W&H line ordered by Next in the past nine months.
This new high-output 134" VAREX® line with grooved feed extruders (105.30/135.30/105.30D), a 35" 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 pounds per year.
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)
Windmoeller & Hoelscher is a leader in the design, manufacture and distribution of flexographic and gravure printing presses, blown and cast film extrusion systems, multiwall equipment, plastic sack and bag making machines, as well as form-fill-seal machinery for the converting and packaging industry. (www.whcorp.com)
