New film extrusion line from Breyer

production than the cosmetic industry.

The market of seamless cosmetic tubes today offers brilliant designs of

tubes as packing for the cosmetic industry. But it expects a high flexibility

from the production and their operators. Main reason: the tube design

changes often in order to be individual and attractive. Also here it counts

more than for other products: Packaging sells.

The average order in this business is often not more than 50.000 tubes.

Following orders request than different diameter, different layer

configuration, different length and finally a complete different decoration. In

other words: the extrusion system and the following equipment must have a

high grade of flexibility.

With the BREYER tube extrusion system TOPline and ECO line worldwide

active customers being already in this business are very successful for many

years. Their production equipment allows them to fulfil all these

requirements from the cosmetic industry.

A different situation of producers of so called PBL tubes (plastic barrier

laminate tubes) are faced. Compared to the extruded tubes these kind of

tubes are made from a web laminate and have visible side seam. Most of

their production sizes is usually above 100.000 tubes per order. Laminate

film itself is supplied by international players of the film industry to the tube

manufacturers. High speed film lines, side-seamers and printers allow an

economic mass production of such film but the individual design for small

orders is not given resp is not economically.

To improve this situation for laminate tube producers BREYER offers now a

smart solution based on their experience of extrusion systems for flat film

and extruded tubes.

The extrusion line with working width of 1600mm, 800mm, 400mm or less

allow the production of slitted flat film with a flexible configuration of different

layers (3, 5 or more), for different tube diameters and lengths.

Barrier layers out of EVOH, PA, PET, COC are also possible.

Furthermore properties as color and haptic which is most important for the

first impression of the tube product, can be easily adapted by using different

polymers like PET, PP, PA, PE or other blended Polyolefines.

An isolated inner layer even allows the usage of recycled material which are

not in contact with the product in the tube.

The inline process of flat web extrusion furthermore allows the production of

ABL or the laminating of the film web by additional decorating film or even to

apply an embossed structure.

Thanks to the development of inline web printers with digital or analog

printing process also small lots can be realized in an economic way.

The advantage for laminate tube producers is that they can now produce

their own individual flat film with individual designs with a high flexibility also

for small tube order lots. Furthermore the adding value is the in-house

production of the film web.