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Food and drink manufacturing: packaging and bottling equipment
News Release from: Jenton International | Subject: Punching holes in packaging films
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 21 August 2002
Punch holes in bags up to 40 cycles/sec
Continuous hole punching units punch polyethylene and other film materials with holes from 3mm to 120mm continuously at speeds up to 40 cycles per second.
Jenton have launched in the UK, the MPU range of continuous hole punching units manufactured by Maklaus Srl Capable of punching polyethylene and other film materials with holes from 3mm to 120mm continuously at speeds up to 40 cycles per second, the MPU range of punches opens the possibility of punching to a wide range of applications in films up to 800 micron
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 21 Apr 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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