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Sigma Plastics Group to Install 5-Layer VAREX Blown Film Line
from Windmoeller & Hoelscher
LINCOLN, RI – The Sigma Plastics Group will install a 5-layer VAREX blown film line from
Windmoeller & Hoelscher Corporation at the Nashville, TN facility of FlexSol Packaging.
The high-output, 5-layer VAREX line is being added to accommodate growth at the plant.
The line has a working width of 87" and is equipped with a stacked MULTICOOL D air ring
and FILMATIC TX dual turret winder. This is FlexSol's fourth VAREX from W&H at the Nashville
plant. The line will produce 5-layer co-extruded film primarily for food packaging with production scheduled to begin in Q4 2011.
FlexSol Packaging, which is headquartered in Pompano Beach, FL, is a wholly-owned division
of the Lyndhurst, NJ-based Sigma Plastics Group.
Sigma Plastics has more than 20 co-extrusion blown film lines from W&H. In the past year
alone, five VAREX lines have been installed at two Sigma companies. ISO Poly Films in Gray Court,
SC added a 7-layer line with a 87" working width, as well as two 3¬layer lines with working widths
of 110" and 126" and one 63" 5-layer line. Clinton, MS-based McNeely Plastics boosted its production
with a 71" 3-layer line. The companies became members of the Sigma Plastics Group in February
2009 and January 2010 respectively.
"W&H machinery performs extraordinarily well for our product lines and we intend to continue
growing with W&H," said Alfred Teo, Chairman & CEO of the Sigma Plastics Group.
FlexSol Packaging Corp, member of the Sigma Plastics Group of companies, and headquartered
in Pompano Beach, FL, is a leading manufacturer of flexible packaging and value¬added plastic
films. FlexSol designs, manufactures and markets a comprehensive line of custom bags and film,
shrink and stretch hood films, performance and barrier films and can liners used in a wide range of applications for the food and beverage, industrial, Jan/San and agricultural end-markets.
Sigma Plastics Group, a Certified Minority Owned Business, is the largest privately held film manufacturer in the plastics industry. Sigma Plastics Group's annual production exceeds 2 billion lbs.
of raw material, turning these resins into top quality products that have lot-to-lot consistency. Sigma Plastics is committed to customer service by offering the best products available to its clients. The company is positioned to fulfill specific needs, with more than 500 extruders running 24 hours a day, seven days a week. (www.alpha-industries.com)
About Windmoeller & Hoelscher:
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.
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