Lohia starlinger limited from its 150,000 m2 machine building facilities in kanpur, india has been providing advanced solutions to the raffia or woven plastics flexible packaging industry around the world for more than 3 decades. It has built a population of over 800 tape extrusion lines and 32,000 circular looms in over 60 countries with an installed processing capacity of 1.5 million tons of plastic. The global footprint of the company is underlined by its fully owned subsidiaries as well as liaison and branch offices in uae, usa, brazil, thailand, indonesia and china. It is ably supported by sales agents in all major woven sacks producing countries. In the last 5 years the company has delivered a number of innovations in pp tape extrusion &ndash duotec, tape winding &ndash autoroto, circular weaving &ndash nova6 and nova venti4 and pp yarn spinning &ndash baby lofil. Lohia starlinger limited participated in plastindia 2012 with innovative solutions and updated machinery for flexible packaging industry.
It continues to invest in developing technologies and products based on close understanding of market needs, bringing efficiency and reducing cost of quality of end products. The company showcased its innovations in plastic tape extrusion coex series, winding ltw 200ce & autoroto, circular weaving nova series and also introduced its expanded product profile in extrusion coating coatex 150090, flexographic printing in 6 colors &ldquolohiapelican soloprint&rdquo, spindrawwind lofil 808 ht for pp multifilament yarn. All these machines received good response. Production of pp tape flat yarn by coextrusion on the latest offering, coex 1000hs, with melt output of 600 kghour drew special attention from visitors. The coex 1000hs brings to raffia industry the advantages of coextrusion. Coextrusion is an established technique in plastics that capitalizes on combining the properties of two or more polymer mixes such that the resultant lamellar structure produced displays properties that are superior or at least more desirable than either of the two or more polymers mixes individually. It could mean enhanced performance or lower costs or both.
The coex 1000hs demonstrated in the stand uses two separate extruders delivering the melt into the tdie to extrude a 3 layer film with the top and bottom layer from one extruder and the middle layer from the other extruder in preset ratio. Line speed of 425 mmin with high filler caco3 content was demonstrated at plastindia 2012 to produce pp tapes with a middle layer having 25 filler content and the upper and lower layer with just 3 filler as a possible solution to reduce the cost of raw material for certain application like low gsm wrapping fabric and lowering the dust generation in weaving, reducing damage to loom elements and also the production environment.
The company is conducting extensive trials at its development facility to develop the various recipes and application of coextruded tapes for woven fabric & believes that coextrusion can be successfully applied to deliver performance that is hitherto unsurpassed including possibility to optimise use of additives like uv stabilizers, antifogging agent, and colouring and recycled materials.
Company is studying the feasibility to expand its coextrusion line to include five layer tape production for value added applications in geotextiles, agro textiles and composites. Coex 1000hshad autoroto winders at the delivery end to make bobbins. These winders do away with the human efforts needed to transfer the tape from full bobbins to empty tubes at speeds in excess of 500 mmin and deliver tape packages of equal lengths. Using stepprecision winding technique, the unwinding tension fluctuations is kept low and within a narrow band in the subsequent process of weaving. Autoroto introduced in year 2007, upgraded twice based on extensive field experiences is becoming the industry standard. Lohia starlinger limited clearly has become industry leader in winding technology.
Lohia starlinger limited carry a long accumulated knowledge of designing & delivering machinery for producing the plastic woven fabric for various components of certified quality fibcbig bags for a wide range of applications and has deep understanding of design, conversion, testing & certification processes of fibc industry worldwide. Domain experts were present at plastindia to help visitors choose the right combination and configuration of tape extrusion line, tape winders, looms and the downstream equipment. Lohia demonstrated fabric cutting machine &ldquofcm 1400&rdquo in the stand for cross cutting of fabric lengths and punching out holes for dischargefilling spouts and now offer special purpose machines like webbingbelt cutting, bag cleaning, hydraulic pallet & bale press.
The nova6 and nova10 add to the existing range of 6, 8 and 10 shuttle looms for producing fabric in tubular form or cutopen to make different components of customized bigbags. Whether it is low gsm fillingdischarge spouts or medium to heavy gsm fabric for 1 or 2 loop bags or tubular fabrics with reinforced warp zones for 4 loop bags, the lohia machines offer solution for high productivity, lower energy consumption at competitive costs.
The nova venti 4 to produce ventilated fabric for bulk packaging of perishable agroproducts like potatoes etc presented attractive option to expand application of fibcbig bags.lofil 808 ht lohia introduced spindrawwind line model lofil 808 ht for up to 80 kghour melt output. It was another star attraction at the stand. The machine was shown producing 3000 and 1000 denier intermingled yarn simultaneously on one side and 4 yarns of 1000 denier on the other side.
With the lofil lines, bag producers or even yarn producers can produce tailormade yarn in 600 to 4,800 denier ranges, in desired quantities and more suited to the specific needs of strength and aesthetics in their products. The compact lofil series of spindrawwind lines are available in 20, 40 or 80 kghour capacities and also supports quick and easy changeover of denier, colour and other desired properties.
Lohia starlinger limited continues to build strength to forge deeper and longer relationship with its worldwide customers delivering advantages through innovative products and solutions. The company is encouraged at the response from the exhibition and is confident of receiving good business from existing as well as new customers in indian and overseas markets. Team plastindia 2012lohia starlinger limitedkanpur indiawww.lohiagroup.combusiness enquiries may be sent to sales@lohiagroup.com
