Pack Studios Ringwood to provide customers a collaborative
environment for laminating adhesives solutions
The Dow Chemical Company’s (NYSE: DOW) Packaging and Specialty
Plastics (P&SP) business opened its first Pack Studios focused
on laminating adhesive in North America, which is the Company’s
seventh Pack Studios location globally. This announcement follows
the opening of Pack Studios Singapore in August. Pack Studios
Ringwood is aimed at accelerating a range of plastics applications
including laminating adhesives projects through a global network of
laboratories, technical experts and testing equipment; Dow’s Pack
Studios enable a collaborative innovation process that helps
customers deliver faster and more efficient commercialization of
new and improved products.
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Ribbon Cutting Ceremony at Dow’s
Ringwood, Ill. Pack Studios. Pictured; Diego Donoso, President Dow
Packaging and Specialty Plastics; Jeff Huizenga, Lab Technician for
Dow; Karen S. Carter, North America commercial vice president for
Dow Packaging and Specialty Plastics; Bill Parks, Pilot Coater
Facility Manager for Dow; Vincenzo Cerciello, Nordmeccanica N.A.
president; Giancarlo Caimmi, Commercial Director for Nordmeccanica;
Laurent Remy, Global Business Director, Adhesives and Functional
Materials, Dow Packaging and Specialty Plastics. Photo Credit: Dow
Packaging and Specialty Plastics
“Pack Studios Ringwood gives our customers an opportunity to
leverage Dow’s global network of expertise, broad product portfolio
and application testing capabilities with Nordmeccanica’s equipment
excellence to accelerate the development of game changing
laminating adhesives solutions for the packaging industry,” said
Karen S. Carter, North America commercial vice president for Dow
Packaging & Specialty Plastics. “Our collaboration with
Nordmeccanica will bring benefits to our customers and advance
solutions for the entire laminating adhesives industry.”
Dow recently entered a joint collaboration with Nordmeccanica
SpA, a worldwide leader in coating, laminating and metallizing
machinery, aimed at driving laminating adhesives development. The
collaboration led to the opening of Dow’s Pack Studios in Mozzate,
Italy in 2015, the first Pack Studios customized to address the
needs of Dow’s laminating adhesives customers. Pack Studios
Ringwood will offer similar capabilities to its customers. The
facility will serve as an innovation and technology training center
for North America, equipped with a collaboration room and an
industrial-scale Nordmeccanica Super Combi 3000 laminator line for
faster commercialization of new adhesive solutions. This
state-of-the-art equipment allows customers to test, prototype and
bring forward innovations to advance solutions for the laminating
adhesives industry without interrupting their own commercial
production.
“The collaboration between Dow and Nordmeccanica will continue
to drive innovation and fuel the growth of the laminating adhesives
industry for many years to come,” said Vincenzo Cerciello,
Nordmeccanica N.A. president. “Innovation is the result of combined
efforts from multiple players, and Pack Studios Ringwood provides
customers with an environment to deliver more efficient and
improved products.”
Through Pack Studios Ringwood, Dow looks to bring forward
developments to advance the laminating adhesives industry through
cost reduction and reduced cycle time on fabrication, prototyping
and testing. Here, visitors will be able to work on-site with Dow’s
dedicated technical teams and network of industry experts in
laminating adhesive application, materials and design. Key
capabilities include:
- Industry-scale equipment, including
Nordmeccanica Super Combi 3000 laminator line
- Rapid prototyping and modeling
technologies of laminating adhesives for faster innovation and
product development
- Application testing capabilities
Pack Studios Ringwood is founded on Dow’s strong legacy of
materials science. It joins the ranks of six established Pack
Studios facilities in Freeport, Texas, USA; Horgen, Switzerland;
São Paulo, Brazil; Shanghai, China; Mozzate, Italy; and Singapore.
The Ringwood, Illinois facility will continue to connect customers
with Dow’s global network capabilities and expertise across the
value chain - including resins, lamination, packaging design,
converting, and prototyping.
Building on its long tradition of cooperatively helping
customers drive innovation, Dow was the first in the industry to
launch a collaborative innovation center like Pack Studios. To find
out more about Pack Studios please visit
http://www.dow.com/en-us/packaging/innovation/pack-studios.
About Dow Adhesives
Dow Adhesives is a comprehensive portfolio of acrylic, epoxy,
polyolefin and polyurethane based adhesives, binders, coatings and
dispersions for diverse applications in automotive, building and
construction, consumer durables, packaging, textiles and hygiene
markets. The portfolio is accessed through multiple businesses
within Dow to optimize technology depth and market connection, yet
leverages expertise across businesses, through our vision of
Science that Connects. Dow Adhesives for Packaging, Textiles and
Hygiene is part of Dow Packaging and Specialty Plastics, based on
leading technologies and expertise for lamination, coating and
bonding in packaging applications including films, tapes and
labels, in binding applications, and in hygiene and medical
applications.
About Dow
Dow (NYSE: DOW) combines the power of science and technology to
passionately innovate what is essential to human progress. The
Company is driving innovations that extract value from material,
polymer, chemical and biological science to help address many of
the world's most challenging problems such as the need for clean
water, clean energy generation and conservation, and increasing
agricultural productivity. Dow's integrated, market-driven,
industry-leading portfolio of specialty chemical, advanced
materials, agrosciences and plastics businesses delivers a broad
range of technology-based products and solutions to customers in
approximately 180 countries and in high-growth sectors such as
packaging, electronics, water, coatings and agriculture. In 2015,
Dow had annual sales of nearly $49 billion and employed
approximately 49,500 people worldwide. The Company's more than
6,000 product families are manufactured at 179 sites in 35
countries across the globe. On June 1, 2016, Dow became the 100
percent owner of Dow Corning Corporation’s silicones business, a
global company with sales of greater than $4.5 billion in 2015, 25
manufacturing sites in 9 countries and approximately 10,000
employees worldwide. References to "Dow" or the "Company" mean The
Dow Chemical Company and its consolidated subsidiaries unless
otherwise expressly noted. More information about Dow can be found
at www.dow.com.
About Nordmeccanica Group
Nordmeccanica is a global leader in coating, laminating and
metallizing machinery for flexible packaging and industrial
applications. Founded in 1978, Nordmeccanica has manufacturing and
business operations in Italy, USA, China, India and Argentina, and
a network of agents in 87 countries. Nordmeccanica employs over 300
people world-wide, with a production area of 30,000 square meters.
The company has an installed base of over 2,700 machines globally,
and had annual sales in excess of €100 million in 2015.
Nordmeccanica laminators and coaters are used to convert
multi-layer structures of flexible substrates for food,
pharmaceutical and industrial applications. The company also
manufactures machinery for the metallization of paper and plastic
film. More information about Nordmeccanica can be found at
www.nordmeccanica.com.
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