SolveTech Film that’s twice as green

Go Greener Environmentally and Greener Financially - with SolveTech!

To downgauge a film means to make the film thinner, and buyers and sellers like it because they can go green in two ways: Environmentally, less material is used in the process, and this can help a lot of companies meet their goals to reduce the amount of packaging material they use. From the other side of the equation, downgauging 5% leads to a 5% reduction in material cost. This can be millions of dollars in polymer savings for a large producer.

Maintaining a films’ integral properties

There are several options for downgauging film including going to a multilayer film structure, changing polymer types and making films more uniform. SolveTech specialises in helping producers exercise the third option, making a more uniform film. Using SolveTech’s proprietary capacitance-based technology, producers are able to measure uniformity with higher accuracy and repeatability when compared to anything else on the market. Since the variability will typically need to be improved, it is important to measure it and monitor it properly.

Solve-Tech offers both on-line and off-line systems for measuring the thickness of plastic film. When downgauging, the film becomes thinner which makes them more difficult to measure. The producer will also have less room for process variation, so it is critical that they are measuring the variability patterns in their materials accurately and that the material is profiled in every area. One of SolveTech’s specialties is measuring thin film, and this has been a great asset to producers looking to downgauge.

PR2 Precision Profiler

Fully compliant with ASTM D8136* and D6988, and commonly used in the plastic film QC lab for making sure material meets thickness and variability specifications. Built tough enough for the production floor, this thickness Profiler is a work horse that delivers the highest level of accuracy and repeatability on the market. Simply cut a sample, and the PR2000 will deliver a highly detailed thickness profile of your plastic film extrusion. Helps you determine thickness variability, detect die lines, and the average thickness of your product while utilizing a NIST traceable calibration.

* ASTM D8136 is the Standard Test Method for Determining Plastic Film

Thickness and Thickness Variability Using a Non-Contact Capacitance Thickness Gauge. It offers a standardised way to define plastic film thickness variability.