Yiwu East Sanxing Plastic Industrial has purchased equipment from Breckner and Valmet Atlas

Yiwu East Sanxing Plastic Industrial has purchased equipment from Breckner and Valmet Atlas

A new Chinese company is to begin making bi-oriented PET film, following its purchase of equipment from Brьckner and Valmet Atlas. Yiwu East Sanxing Plastic Industrial is a joint venture of three companies that have previously been involved in textiles and clothing. It agreed to buy a 7 metre-wide BOPET film line from Brьckner Maschinenbau at Chinaplas 2003. Another contract was signed with Valmet Atlas for slitting and rewinding machinery for use on the line.

Brьckner sales manager Markus Gschwandtner told PRW.com the net width of the line is 6.7 metres. He added the “ABC layout” enables Yiwu East Sanxing to produce both 12µm-thick packaging film and added-value films such as those capable of being sealed.

Managing director of the new venture Chen Hongneng said the BOPET film plant will start running towards the end of 2004. Yiwu East Sanxing is located in Yiwu City, Zhejiang Province, around 300km south east of Shanghai.

In August PRW.com reported another Chinese newcomer to oriented film production, air conditioning manufacturer Jiangsu Shuangliang. It bought equipment from Brьckner and Valmet to produce BOPP film (PRW.com 1 August 2003).