November 18, 2009 monosol llc, the world&39s leader in water soluble sustainable films and solutions, announces the next phase in its expansion program to dramatically increase production capacity at their global manufacturing facilities. "for the past five years, monosol has developed technology that has grown worldwide consumer and commercial product demand for water soluble films and solutions. This increasing demand has been met by consistently and methodically increasing capacity at our manufacturing sites in the united states and england," said p. Scott bening, president and ceo. Monosol expects to increase capacity for water soluble film manufacturing by more than 20 percent in 2010 and an additional 20 percent in 2011 and will add similar solution production capacity. This increase is being driven by advances in several growth market areas such as unit dose packaging, composite fabricating and monosol&39s unique new dust abatement solution product, terraloctm. "in addition to adding capacity, we continue to refine and enhance our market leading technology through process improvements and streamlining technology. Monosol&39s investments will be greater than 20 million over the next two years and the expansion initiative will include adding significant resources at our 16 acre, expandable laporte, indiana facility," said david devoll, vice president commercial director substrates. About monosol llc since 1953, monosol llc has been the world leader in specialty watersoluble polymerbased films. Today, monosol offers a wide range of watersoluble packaging films for unitdose applications for agricultural chemicals, consumer and i & i products, moldrelease films, transfer printing, embroidery support films, watersoluble laundry bags, edible films and terraloc, a unique dust abatement system. Monosol maintains a global network of dedicated partners to offer sales, service and technical support to its worldwide customer base. Certified iso 90012000, monosol maintains the highest quality standards. Headquarters are based in merrillville, indiana, usa with manufacturing facilities in portage and laporte, indiana, usa and hartlebury, england. For more information, visit www.monosol.com and www.terraloc.com end reader inquiries david l. Devoll monosol llc 707 e. 80th pl. Suite 301 merrillville, in 46410 usa tel 219.762.3165 fax 219.755.4062 email dldevoll@monosol.com url www.monosol.com editor inquiries sandra mcbride mcbride public relations 5 arastradero road menlo park, ca 94028 usa tel 650.926.9852 fax 650.926.9853 email feedback@mcbridepr.com url www.mcbridepr.com
