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Wrapped up: biaxial film developments


Recent innovations in oriented film include a pilot line that will prevent landfill, a new MDO system, plus two BOPP installations in Turkey – and new BOPET lines in Pakistan and China


Biaxially oriented – and mono-oriented – film helps to improve properties including barrier, mechanical strength and physical appearance. As well as embracing new types of oriented material – such as polyethylene, in the form of BOPE – there is increasing need to produce higher quality film more quickly.


Turkish delight Bruckner recently supplied new BOPP film lines to two long-standing Turkish customers. Super Film – its oldest customer in Turkey – re- cently bought its fourth Bruckner BOPP line, having bought its first in 1994. Its first three original Bruckner lines are running at Super Film’s facility in Gaziantep Industrial Zone. The latest line will be installed at its new site in Lüleburgaz, near Istanbul, which opened in 2021.


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The facility – and the new line – will help the company to increase its annual flexible film capacity to 184,000 tonnes. In addition, Bruckner has installed a 10.4m wide, 600 m/min BOPP film line at Polibak Plastik Film at its expanded Izmir site. “The increasing demand for high-quality BOPP


packaging film in Europe, the Middle East and Turkey left the markets starving for new capacity,” said Enver Bakioglu, chairman of Polibak.


BOPET projects


Bruckner has also been supplying BOPET lines to customers in Asia. In Pakistan, BOPET film manufac- turer Novatex recently installed its third production line, making films under its Krystofilms brand name. Altaf Bilwani, a director at the company, said: “The main reason for partnering with Brückner for


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Main image: Bruckner has installed 12 BOPET lines at Hengli in China within one year


IMAGE: BRUCKNER


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