Rollprint Invests $1.25 Million in New Pouch Line
ADDISON, IL—April 10, 2013—Rollprint Packaging Products has made a $1.25 million investment on a new multi-configuration pouch manufacturing line for sterile medical and other demanding applications. The state-of-the-art Ritemed 900 CHB machine from Water Line in Mezzovico, Switzerland, is expected to be installed in its Addison, IL, cleanroom by the end of the year.
The machine is capable of up to 100 cycles per minute and can handle up to five webs simultaneously, including aluminum foil, medical-grade paper, coated and uncoated Tyvek, and polypropylene and polyethylene films. The unit has a width of one meter, enabling output of several thousand pouches per minute.
“We received overwhelming response from medical device manufacturers soon after we announced construction on our new cleanroom early last year. Our new manufacturing capability has driven demand for additional production capacity, so we are once again making a sizeable investment,” said Doug Dodrill, vice president of technology at Rollprint.
Rollprint’s ISO Class 8, 6,000-square-foot cleanroom has been operational since last fall and already houses five production lines capable of producing a variety of sterile medical pouch structures for which Rollprint is known. This includes traditional and barrier header bags, chevron, vented, three-side weld seals, corner peels, and more. Once the new Ritemed unit is installed, overall production is expected to increase as much as 25 percent, due to the speed and output capability of the new machine.
Additional features include a non-contact web cleaner and monitoring/data collection capabilities. The web cleaner ultrasonically vibrates the film and then vacuums both sides without touching the web. The machine also monitors pressure, temperature and time parameters for every pouch and verifies that the parameters are within the validated process window. Data is electronically archived for every pouch manufactured.
About Water Line
Water Line is a leading global manufacturer of automatic high-speed machines for the production of premade pouches and bags (two- or three-side seals, stand-up, doypack, retort pouches, side gusset bags, medical pouches and sterilization rolls, security tamper evident bags, etc). Water Line’s machines are 100 percent Swiss made, using advanced design techniques and premium components, and they are known for their quality, speed, flexibility and reliability.
About Rollprint Packaging Products
With manufacturing facilities near Chicago, Rollprint Packaging Products is a worldwide supplier of packaging materials for the healthcare and food industries. The company offers a complete range of flexible, heat-sealable materials incorporating film, ClearFoil, foil, Tyvek and paper. Structures can be designed to accommodate any sterilization method. Available in rollstock, pouches and diecut lids, Rollprint’s materials can meet the needs of most peelable, chemical resistant and barrier applications.
Rollprint is a founder of Alliantz Flexible Packaging, a joint venture with Acme Packaging, Singapore. Headquartered in Singapore, Alliantz serves the flexible packaging supply needs of Southeast Asia and China.
Source: Rollprint.
