Reynolds expands

Reynolds Metals Co., Richmond, Va., is expanding and diversifying its aluminum-foil production facilities on the West Coast. To be completed by year's end, the new operations will provide the company's packaging customers in that area with faster delivery of such aluminum products as rigid foil containers, "cook-in"� foil pouches, printed foil overwraps, laminated folding cartons, labels, bread wraps and gift wraps, reports Paul Murphy, vice president of Reynolds Aluminum Sales Co.

At a new foil plant nearing completion in Torrance, Calif., Reynolds will manufacture pans for pies, frozen foods, cake mixes and other food products. Four container presses at the plant will have a production capacity of 100,000 containers per shift, according to Mr. Murphy. The Torrance facility also will include a high-speed laminator and a five-color flexographic press for printing on foil wraps and other specialized packaging materials. The company also is installing an eight-color press, along with complete carton-making and laminating equipment, at its plant in Vernon, Calif., to service the West Coast folding-box manufacturers.

Polystyrene in use

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and the hardness of surface permits intricate, detailed designs.

Machinability. Because of its relative stiffness, polystyrene film handles well in automatic machinery. It has reportedly been run satisfactorily through cellophane equipment, although of course it cannot at present be heat sealed in such equipment. It does carry a certain amount of static charge, but this is offset by the stiffness of the film and can be overcome, it is said, with standard static eliminators.

With one brand of bi-oriented polystyrene film only recently well launched in the general packaging market and the second (actually, the earlier) brand just beginning to move from laminating uses to straight film applications, the principal problem for the present may be that of supply. One supplier is expanding facilities in Cleveland, with production schedujecj for early 1959.

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