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Purpose & Overview
The most expensive component in film is the raw material. This seminar reviews new developments to improve the performance of flexible packaging structures, and includes proven techniques to reduce scrap rates and maximize production capacity while comparing different manufacturing methods. Each participant will receive a comprehensive 250-page manual, troubleshooting guide, and articles published by the seminar instructor. Attendees will:

• Discover the trade secrets that raw-material and equipment suppliers share only with their best customers;
• Learn why problems occur and what to do about them;
• Understand how to select the most suitable raw materials and manufacturing process for film structures.

Testimonial
“This is the type of seminar content we need more of rather than the theoretical seminars that most extrusion courses seem to get bogged down in.” Rich Mennonah, Baxter Healthcare.

Who Should Attend?
Engineers and manufacturing, product development, and maintenance personnel will find the troubleshooting aspects of the program to be useful. Managers and sales and marketing personnel who service the flexible packaging industry will benefit from understanding the capabilities and new opportunities offered by leading-edge technical innovations.

Seminar Topics
Effect of polymer properties on film performance
Comparison of new process technologies and manufacturing techniques
Blown-film and cast-film process overview

• Symptoms of and strategies to minimize common process problems:
  • Screw and barrel wear
  • Surging
  • Melt fracture
  • Interfacial instability
  • Gels
  • Web and bubble instability
  • Surface treatment
  • Heat sealing
  • Wrinkles
  • Defective roll geometry
  • Gauge variation

Paul Waller, P.Eng., MBA, Cert.P.P.
Paul Waller is president of Plastics Touchpoint Group, Inc. He is a licensed professional engineer, Councilor of the Ontario SPE Section, and co-chair of the Canadian Plastics Sector Council, with 35 years’ experience in the plastics industry. Mr. Waller’s career includes technical service and business application activities at Dow Chemical, Esso Chemical, Mobil Chemical, Macro Engineering Co. Ltd., and the Canadian Plastics Industry Association. Prior to founding his own consulting company, Mr. Waller was director of Technical Operations at Haremar Plastic Manufacturing Limited.

Mr. Waller developed and delivered courses in blown and cast film at the Canadian Plastics Training Centre in Toronto and SENAI in Brazil. He has conducted public and in-house training programs throughout the Middle East, Africa, North and South America, Australia, and Asia. Participants have included processors, raw-material suppliers, equipment manufacturers, educators, and industry associations.