India is a largely untapped market in thermoformed food packaging articles and with the growth of cellular families and middle class consumerism, the market for long shelf life processed food is going to grow multifold in near future.

Keeping this in view, RAJOO has recently delivered a five layer barrier sheet line to an Indian customer featuring four extruders, melt pumps, hydraulic screen changers, a unitilt polishing roll stack and fully automatic Siemens touch screen line control to give an output of co-extruded barrier sheets worth 400 kg/hr.

The unitilt polishing roll stack is designed for infinite adjustment from horizontal to vertical position through push button operation, thus ensuring production of variety of sheet thicknesses and polymer structures. The gap between the rollers can also be accurately adjusted thru finely threaded stud and ratchet arrangement. Digital indication of gap between the rollers adds to the ease of operation.

The line is aiming to cater to the growing markets in processed food packaging with extended shelf life and can also produce lidding foils made of various polymer structures like PP / EVOH. The lamina RS3X-1410 / 1000 is equipped with a dual stroke diverter type hydraulic screen changers with common power pack for continuous filtration of the melt through rheologically optimized flow channels which minimizes residence time and pressure drop. The line is designed to produce co-extruded thermoformable sheets of nylon / EVOH and PP/ HIPS in a width of 900 mm and a thickness range from 0.5 mm to 1.5 mm.

The company made this announcement during the trading hours today, 16 July 2008.