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Blown Film Extrusion Technology

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Introduction
Hosokawa Alpine is a leader in the production of blown film lines, with over 60 years of experience in innovation and improvement. The company specializes in high-performance packaging films, focusing on complex film structures, energy efficiency, and sustainability.
Product Offerings
Hosokawa Alpine provides a diverse range of film production solutions for applications such as agricultural, medical, and packaging films. Their products are recognized for their tear strength, sealability, and barrier properties.
Technological Innovations
The company has developed patented technologies like the X-die and TRIO system, which improve film properties and production efficiency, allowing for quick job changes and cost-effective machine direction orientation.
Manufacturing Excellence
All equipment is engineered and manufactured in Germany, ensuring high quality and reliability. Significant investment in research and development helps maintain industry leadership.
Multi-layer Film Lines
Hosokawa Alpine offers multi-layer film lines from 5 to 11 layers, enabling the production of high-barrier films with complex structures, offering material combinations, cost efficiency, and versatile production capabilities.
Customer Partnership
The company emphasizes long-term customer relationships, providing comprehensive support from design to production. Their test center allows for the development of specific formulations and enhancement of film properties.
Optimum Material Feeding
The AMC resin supply system is designed for precise metering of additives in multilayer coextrusion applications, featuring space-saving Smartbox extruders and hydraulic screen changers for efficient material feeding.
Precise Metering
The AMD system offers high-resolution blending for up to 7 layers, with a "loss in weight" system for quick job changes. The AMB batch blending system ensures precision metering with high output rates.
The X-Die Technology
The patented X-Die technology produces high-quality films with excellent optical properties and thickness tolerances, ensuring high melt homogeneity and reduced visual port lines.
Cooling Systems
Efficient cooling systems, including the CR cooling ring, increase output rates by up to 40%. The CRP segment cooling ring and automatic BDC bubble diameter control enhance film output and gauge control.
Film Take-Off and Winding
Various film take-off systems and winders, such as the ATW stacked turret winder, offer precision winding technology with reduced floor space requirements, including options for reverse winding and tension control.
Film Orientation Lines
Hosokawa Alpine's MDO film orientation lines improve film properties like stiffness and shrinkage, with the TRIO system reducing trim waste and optimizing film thickness profiles.
Service and Support
The company provides a comprehensive service package, ensuring maximum uptime and profitability for customers through sales, planning, customization, production, delivery, on-site assembly, start-up, and after-sales service.
Facts & Figures
Key statistics highlight global demand for PE film, die head efficiency, and the impact of high-barrier films on reducing food spoilage, emphasizing the company's leadership in blown film plastics processing machinery.
Introduction and History
Founded in 1898, Hosokawa Alpine began as a machine shop and quickly focused on powder and particle processing. It expanded into blown film lines in the 1960s and became part of the Hosokawa Micron Group in 1987.
Technological Advancements
Alpine has improved its blown film processes, offering multi-layer film lines with up to eleven layers, optimizing film performance and reducing material costs. Innovations include precise metering, film orientation, and the TRIO system.
Research and Development
Alpine's in-house research facilities focus on cost-efficiency and environmental sustainability, providing innovative and profitable solutions.
Global Presence
With headquarters in Germany and sales offices in the USA, Malaysia, and Japan, Hosokawa Alpine offers comprehensive support and services worldwide.
Conclusion
With over 60 years of innovation, Hosokawa Alpine continues to pursue excellence in blown film technology, focusing on efficient and profitable production methods.
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Process technologies for tomorrow. HOSOKAWA ALPINE AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT Peter-Doerer-Straße 13-25 86199 Augsburg Phone: E-mail: [email protected] www.hosokawa-alpine.com Subject to change without notice. All information in this brochure is purely THE PURSUIT OF PERFECTION IN BLOWN FILM 60 Years of Innovation and Continuous Improvement informative and non-binding. Our quotations are authoritative with regard to orders. © Hosokawa Alpine 2013. Printed in Germany. Blown Film Lines 09.13 /1 (EN) Process technologies for tomorrow.

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Process technologies for tomorrow. HOW TO ACHIEVE EFFICIENT PROFITABLE FILM PRODUCTION? HOSOKAWA ALPINE SALES OFFICES 2 HOSOKAWA ALPINE AMERICAN INC. HOSOKAWA MICRON (Malaysia) SDN BHD HOSOKAWA ALPINE JAPAN Co., Ltd. Damansara Utama 47400 Petaling Jaya Selangor E-Mail: [email protected] E-Mail: [email protected] E-Mail: [email protected]

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Dear Film Producer, continuous innovation describes Hosokawa Alpine’s “Pursuit and exceed our customers’ expectations. From our new and of Perfection” in blown lm processing. The market for high modern machining and assembly centers, to our multi-line performance packaging lms has grown steadily the past test centers we are here to provide the most efcient and several decades and growth is projected well into the future. protable blown lm lines in the industry. Processors and converters will require more complex and sophisticated lm structures to meet the markets exacting and demanding requirements....

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WE ARE YOUR PARTNER FOR FILM PRODUCTION: SERVING YOUR MARKETS. AUTOMOTIVE ENGINEERING FOR A WIDE VARIETY OF APPLICATIONS. AGRICULTURAL FILM FRUIT AND VEGETABLE BAGS NAPPY LININGS ANIMAL FEED PACKAGING GOODS BAGS NEWSPAPER FILM CARRIER BAGS HEAVY CARGO SACKS PACKAGING FOR BAKERY PRODUCTS COMPRESSION PACKAGING INDUSTRIAL FILM PROTECTIVE FILM CONFECTIONERY PACKAGING LAMINATING FILM REFUSE BAGS / SACKS CONSTRUCTION FILM LIDDING FILM SHIPPING ENVELOPES FILM FOR FROZEN GOODS MEAT / POULTRY PACKAGING SHRINK HOODS FREEZER BAGS MEDICAL FILM STRETCH HOODS FRESH PRODUCE PACKAGING MILK FILM

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TAILORED FILM PROPERTIES FOR YOUR APPLICATION. RE-SEALABLE PACKAGING Perfect seal-and-peel properties, good oxygen and aroma barrier FOOD POUCH Ideal ll and seal properties, good stiffness and attractive appearance GARMENT BAG Attractive transparency, good sealability CARRIER BAG Excellent tear strength and perforation resistance TWIST WRAP FILM Good twist and dead-fold properties, premium-quality appearance COMPRESSION PACKAGING High resilience and perforation resistance, good sealability STRETCH HOOD Excellent tear strength and perforation resistance combined with good elasticity LID FILM AND...

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WHAT IS THE RECIPE FOR PERFECT FILM QUALITY? Meet Hosokawa Alpine. HOSOKAWA ALPINE BLOWN FILM LINES PATENTED TECHNOLOGY MADE IN GERMANY. in the manufacture of premium blown lm The secret of Alpine’s blown lm lines lies class manufacturing facility Hosokawa Alpine in our continuous improvement over several is your recipe for success and protability in decades resulting in patented technology that your blown lm plants. is engineered and manufactured in Germany. Partnership with Hosokawa Alpine means you are associated with the world’s leader equipment. With millions of dollars invested in research...

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TAILOR-MADE SOLUTIONS AND IDEAL COMPONENTS. PERFECT FILM QUALITY AND ROLL CONFORMITY. makes machine direction orientation a cost Hosokawa Alpine is your single source for effective option for enhancing lm properties. in the industry. The patented TRIO system nally blown lm equipment, from pellet feeding to lm winders, mono to 11-layers. The heart of Alpine lm lines is the patented X-die. The innovative and compact design has the shortest purging times and fastest job changes ENGINEERED, MANUFACTURED & ASSEMBLED in GERMANY

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WHAT MAKES A BLOWN FILM LINE PERFECT? We develop as many line congurations as we have customers. with your raw material supplier and our process Visit our 1,000 sqm test center and you will Whatever your process requirements are you have access to state-of-the-art blown lm will have the opportunity to nd solutions at lines to develop your specic formulations DESIGNED FOR YOUR APPLICATION MANUFACTURED TO YOUR EXACTING SPECIFICATIONS. expertise. Develop enhanced lm properties on our TRIO machine direction orientation system.

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QUALITY AND EFFICIENT RIGHT DOWN TO THE SMALLEST DETAIL. solutions to your lm needs and the needs of Design, engineering, development, production your customers. and commissioning – we offer you the complete package from one source. From initial trials to nal production you will have a partner you can lean on every step of the way. You will nd

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More than sixty successful years in the blown lm market are not a coincidence but the result of a philosophy and a commitment to excellence. GERMAN CRAFTSMANSHIP We are proud of our 115 years of growth Approximately 10% of our permanent staff are apprentices. We pass on elementary skills to the proud of our single location over all those next generation early in their career to create years here in Augsburg. Our Bavarian an environment where they can become skilled heritage provides us with highly qualied professionals and experts in their elds. specialists, a solid infrastructure of people and...

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BECAUSE EXPERIENCE AND CONSISTENCY PAYS OFF. WE TAP INTO SYNERGIES We have long years of experience in machine WE CULTIVATE LONG-TERM CUSTOMER RELATIONS engineering. We constantly develop new Quality is the result of consistency, both technical production methods and invest in leading-edge and personal consistency. Many of our customers manufacturing techniques. We tap into synergies have been with us for decades. This special with other divisions to make certain we manu- relationship is the product of mutual trust and facture our blown lm equipment to the highest respect developed over years...

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3-layer line at our test centre in Augsburg/ Germany

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*Prices are pre-tax. They exclude delivery charges and customs duties and do not include additional charges for installation or activation options. Prices are indicative only and may vary by country, with changes to the cost of raw materials and exchange rates.