The ship date for custom PE film involves much more than a first-come-first-serve queue. An extruder who runs their backlog in this fashion or has a salesman running the backlog is not long for this world. This is nothing new. Egyptologists have determined that customers and suppliers have been at loggerheads for thousands of …
We do not make Visqueen or any film in 100 foot rolls. Please do not inquire. Scroll down for a list of American “visqueen” film manufacturers. Click this link for what we do manufacture. Visqueen is another word for construction and agriculture, or “C & A” film usually in 100 foot rolls. Visqueen, like “Frigidaire” and “Kleenex” …
Point-to-point variation is different than the area derived from a specific amount ( weight ) of PE film. The word for total amount derived is called yield. The industry standard is loosely defined as plus / minus 10 %. Smaller custom orders should allow wider tolerances. Here’s what happens in real life: The operator sets up the order. When the …
The shortest route to a good sustainability scorecard is source reduction. New resins get the job done using less wall thickness in packaging applications. There is a definite trend towards using less, albeit slowly. So what is holding back adoption of thinner packaging even after the efficacy of a thinner package has been proven through …
Asking for ” regular poly” film is like asking for a regular car, beer, soda, tape or wine. The variation within the species of polyethylene film resins has evolved because different PE resins are made to do different jobs. Just as one would not use a subcompact car to do the same job as a passenger …
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Polyethylene blown film does not have to be inconsistent. If your low priced PE film is inconsistent within the same lot, your blown film supplier probably has used off-grade resins to save money on their major cost: PE resin. The thinking is “the customer won’t know the difference.” You do know the difference because the …
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