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| June 2008 - Plastics In Canada |
Plastics in Canada’s June 2008 magazine features improving gauge control in
blown film, new way and new means. Techflow was proud to be featured in the June 2008 publication, and to be recognized as a world leader in die gauge control.
...Techflow Design (Mississauga, Ont.) uses its stackable die designs for gauge control. Company president Ricardo Rodriguez is not a big fan of automatic
gauge control systems, saying those now on the market can tend to over-thin barrier layers, taking them past a critical point.
“We worked on our stackable die design for 10 years,” he says. “We have run five-layer film with less than five per cent gauge variation on this die.
With his company’s dies, each layer has two spirals whose flows counter-rotate in relation to each other. So, a five-layer die is, in actuality a 10-layer die.
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| April - May 2008 - Techflow Open House #5 |
Samarate (Milan), Italy - it’s fifth open house to introduce the latest in Co-Extrusion technology commencing April 28th - May 9th, 2008.
The open house to take place again at our associated European headquarters in Samarate, Italy which is located just North of Milan. To arrange a formal invitation
contact Techflow Design & Manufacturing Inc. either by phone # 905-542-2064 or through email at
info@techflowdesign.com.
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| November 2007 - Techflow Open House #4 |
Samarate (Milan), Italy - Techflow Design & Manufacturing Inc. announces it’s fourth open house to introduce the latest in Mono Layer High Density
and Co-Extrusion technology commencing November 5th - 9th, 2007 for the Mono Layer Line and November 12th - 16th, 2007 for the Co-Extrusion line. The open house to take
place again at our associated European headquarters in Samarate, Italy which is located just North of Milan. To arrange a formal invitation contact Techflow Design
& Manufacturing Inc. either by phone # 905-542-2064 or through email at info@techflowdesign.com.
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| October 24-31 2007 - K-Show 2007 |
 Dusseldorf, Germany - Techflow Design & Manufacturing Inc will be in attendence. To arrange a formal invitation
contact Techflow Design & Manufacturing Inc. either by phone # 905-542-2064 or through email at info@techflowdesign.com
Messe Düsseldorf North America (MDNA), serves as an international link for U.S. companies, assisting with everything necessary to exhibit at or visit one of the trade
shows organized by the Messe Düsseldorf group of companies in Germany, Czech Republic, South East Asia, China, India, Russia, The Middle East, and Brazil. For every company
planning to enter the markets in Europe, Asia, The Middle East, and South America, Messe Düsseldorf and its group of companies organize the right trade show. MDNA brings
market partners together to ensure that exhibitors and visitors find customers or providers of service and merchandise they are looking for.
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| October 19 2007 - Roman Grygorak, Deceased |
It is with great sadness that we announce today the unexpected death of Roman Grygorak, age 57.
Roman was a proud member of the Techflow organization since its inception and a key component of our company.
On behalf of everyone at Techflow, we express our sincerest condolences to his family. He will be greatly missed by all of us.
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| November 2006 - Techflow Open House #3 |
Samarate (Milan), Italy - Techflow Design & Manufacturing Inc. announces another open house to introduce the latest in extrusion
technology during an open house commencing November 13th - 18th, 2006. The open house to take place at our associated European headquarters in Samarate,
Italy which is located just North of Milan and we will have running a 400mm 3 layer Rotating Ibc line complete with inline bag machine. To arrange a
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| June 2006 - NPE Show Highlights |
Join Techflow at NPE 2006 this summer. Techflow will be at booth 7001, McCormick North, Lower Level 1. The easiest way to
remember where the booth is? Enter McCormick North level 3 main entrance, go down the escalators to the left, look ahead...it's the first booth you will see!
Techflow will be stocked with information and would love to discuss your upcoming projects.
Click the link below, to read exclusive coverage of Techflow Design from PlasticsTechnology's™
online news archives.
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| February 2006 - Lone Star Plastics Presents Techflow With Supplier Award |
Lone Star Plastics presented Techflow with a supplier award at the ribbon cutting ceremony for their new Alabama film facility. As a supplier of multiple,
complete blown film systems for the facility, Techflow's equipment was praised for ease of installation, on-time delivery, and top performance from the blown film
lines once installed. Pictured to the right are Michael Bucko of Techflow, Kim Baca of Lone Star, and Alan Jones of blownfilmline.com with the plaque that was
presented during the big event. |
| February 2006 - Techflow Open House #2 |
Samarate (Milan), Italy - Techflow Design & Manufacturing Inc. announces another open house to introduce the latest in extrusion technology
during an open house commencing February 13th - 18th, 2006. The open house to take place at our associated European headquarters in Samarate, Italy which is located
just North of Milan and we will have running a 220mm High Density 3 layer Ibc line complete with automatic gauge control. To arrange a formal invitation please
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| October 2004 - K-Show 2004 |
  Dusseldorf, Germany - Techflow Design & Manufacturing Inc would like to thank its customers for
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| September 2004 - Techflow Open House |
Samarate (Milan), Italy - Techflow Design & Manufacturing Inc. announces an open house to introduce the latest in extrusion technology
during a open house commencing September 7th - 17th, 2004. The open house to take place at our associated European headquarters in Samarate, Italy which
is located just North of Milan and we will have running a 400mm 5 layer Ibc line. To arrange a formal invitation please
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| November 2003 - Techflow Design in Plastics News |
Techflow Inc. provided two high-speed, single layer extrusions machines to All American Poly Corp.
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| October 2000 - Plastics Technology Online Article |
 A new stack die for blown film offers short residence time with a new patented split-horizontal-flow concept. The DSS
(dual-spiral system) die from three-year-old Techflow Design & Manufacturing Inc., Mississauga, Ont., divides the horizontal flow in each layer into two
opposing coils that flow from the outside in, so a three-layer die actually has six spiral-flow layers. Dual layer distribution controls thickness within ±4-5%,
Techflow says. Techflow has delivered one five-layer DSS die to an Italian customer and is making a seven-layer die for shipment to Argentina. Dies built so far
are 5 to 10 in. diam.
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| April 2000 - DSS line runs Pa-6 structure at Argenplas 2000 |
Techflow Inc. produced Argenplas 2000’s only blown film co-extrusion line running a three layer structure of LDPE/ADHESIVE/NYLON - 6 using a 120 mm DSS
die. Nylon -6 is one of the hardest polymers to run at the best of times because of its poor melt strength and is usually not run in short runs of a few hours like
it was during each day of the show. Typically it is recommended that nylon-6 be run at blow up ratios of under 2:1 because of stability problems however, Techflow
was running the nylon at a blow up ratio of 4:1, without stability problems. To further complicate maters, the polyamide was a non-blown film monofilament grade,
which had never been used for film extrusion of any kind. This surprised even the resin supplier Radici Plastics of Italy.
Of primary importance to co-extrusion film producers was the gauge deviation of the overall film and of the nylon layer by itself. The gauge deviation measuring
from the highest to the lowest peak was ± 5% (2S) on 65 micron film. The nylon
layer distribution by itself was determined by running the DSS without the adhesive layer. This gauge distribution did not exceed ± 6%
(2S) with the nylon layer thickness at 29 microns. Finally, the DSS was run with
all three layers processing fractional melt LDPE. The gauge distribution was ± 4.6% (2S)
at 65 microns which left many customers in awe. These results were verified by Octagon Process Technology GmbH of Germany using their automatic off-line film thickness
profiler. One of the output printouts is displayed below.
We encourage you to contact us so that we can send you a film sample verifying these results.
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| July 2000 - Techflow ships 5 layer 250mm DSS to European Customer |
Techflow Design has shipped the first 250mm DSS 5 layer co-extrusion die in Europe that specializes in high
tech films for the food industry. The die, which will be used to produce mainly barrier films containing EVOH and
polyamides is also able to process polyolefins easliy without any modifications to the die.
This next generation co-extrusion die features Techflows patented dual melt distribution spirals per layer,
meaning that the die will in fact be producing a total of 10 layers. Doubling the layers in this fashions adds a
host of benefits to the film's properties. For starters the overall gauge distribution will be greatly improved.
Adding layers has been proven to decrease gauge distribution and increase output significantly. However, What sets
the DSS apart from other co-extrusion dies, is the fact that the dual spirals act to reduce the layer to
layer gauge distribution. This is a more important feature than the over gauge distribution because it is the layer
thickness that controls, for instance, how uniform the barrier properties of the film are. A film with good overall
gauge distribution does not necessarily have good layer to layer distribution.
Because layer to layer film thickness is difficult to measure we offer customers samples of film made on a DSS
co-extrusion die running without tie layers. In this way, the individual barrier layers can be removed from the
remaining film to be indivudually measured. Perform this test on your regular die and compare.
Other modular dies claim to have a truly modular design where each layer is essentially a single layer die. In the
DSS each module is essentially a two-layer die. The DSS is the only die on the market that can offer this feature.
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