Treofan to install Bobst coater in Italy

Scheduled to enter operation in the second quarter of 2018, the 7.5 million EUR (8.2 million USD) line is designed to deliver an annual volume of 4,000 metric tons of specialty film with a wide variety of coatings. Thanks to the plant’s highly flexible configuration, not only can it produce all of the existing product portfolio, it also allows for the development of new products, such as films with integrated mineral oil barriers. Both single- and double-side coatings are possible, including with different individual materials. Film width is also continuously variable, so can be tailored to customers’ varying needs.

Global demand for coated films is growing continually due to a number of trends, such as increasing requirements for flexible packaging to include barrier effects and to keep the packaged products fresh for longer, as well as the rise of new areas of applications such as perfumes.

Treofan already has a coater at Terni, its second Italian site, that produces around 10,000 metric tons of coated film per year. The new plant, the installation of which begins in the second quarter of 2017, will therefore increase the company’s production capacity for coated film by 40 percent.

‘This investment is another milestone in Treofan’s transformation into a supplier of film surface technologies,’ commented Dr Walter Bickel, Treofan CEO. ‘Not only does the new coater support our own innovation processes, it also broadens opportunities for developing new solutions jointly with our customers. It will thus make an important contribution towards expanding our strategic position in the premium segment.’