The Chinese BOPA film producer Xiamen Changsu has ordered two sequential film stretching lines from Brückner Maschinenbau.
To date, these are considered to be the fastest, widest and most powerful of their kind - with a Working width of 7+ metres, one Production speed from
340 m/min and a output of more than 2.5 tonnes per hour.
„When we decided to make this investment, we had one clear goal in mind: to minimise production costs while maintaining the highest possible film quality. Our new systems outperform our most powerful machines to date by 35 per cent in terms of speed and 50 per cent in terms of output. Thanks to our long-standing collaboration with Brückner, we are confident that we will be able to guarantee the product quality that our customers have come to expect and demand with the new systems.“
Wang Zhefu, Chairman Xiamen Changsu:
Phillip Chen, Managing Director Brueckner Far East, emphasises the long-standing partnership between the two companies: „Xiamen Changsu is one of our oldest customers in the BOPA sector, not only in China but worldwide. Since 2003 we have Ten projects successfully implemented together. They were characterised by great innovation on the part of Xiamen Changsu, which, for example, was the first to develop a Twin-screw extrusion at BOPA or campaigned for Simultaneous systems with a working width of over six metres have decided.“
„The new systems also mark the latest development step in the sequential stretching of PA films: from 4.2 to 5.1 to 6.6 metres, we have now achieved an impressive seven metres plus, together with Xiamen Changsu.“
Reinhard Priller, Sales Director Brückner Mechanical Engineering
The systems are installed in the last quarter of 2021 go into operation - just in time for the year-end business.
[infotext]Brückner Maschinenbau GmbH & Co. KG, the global market leader for film stretching systems, is part of the Brückner Group in Siegsdorf, Upper Bavaria, a family-owned, medium-sized group of companies with a total of over 2,600 employees at 29 locations. Other group members are the service provider for film stretching technology, Brückner Servtec GmbH, Kiefel GmbH, one of the leading manufacturers of plastics processing machines, and the Swiss company PackSys Global AG, a world-renowned manufacturer of state-of-the-art packaging machines.Source: Brückner
