Flexible Packaging recently caught up with Dennis Carespodi, Oracle Packaging director of technology, for an update on the converter’s extrusion capacity and capabilities.

In the March installment of Roundtable, we sit down with John P. Christiano,Vice President, Technology at Davis-Standard LLC, Laurent Cros, CEO for Pearl Technologies Inc., Andy Christie, Managing Director at SAM North America LLC, Mike Andrews, Process Technology and Application Development, Extrusion Systems at Windmoeller & Hoelscher Corp., Steve DeSpain, Vice President, for Reifenhauser Inc., Jim Campbell, Vice President of Sales at Hosokawa Alpine American Inc., and Vijay Shankar, Vice President for Mamata Extrusion Systems Pvt. Ltd.

In the Jan/Feb installment of Roundtable, we sit down with Eric Smith, Vice President of Technology for Charter NEX and Eric Bender, Market Development Manager, New Platforms for Jindal Films Americas.

Q: What’s new with your company? Did you release anything new or notable at Drupa?

Flexible Packaging recently caught up with Sebastian Huennefeld, technical sales manager, extrusion equipment, Windmoeller & Hoelscher, for an update on all-things extrusion.

Guill Tool introduces the Bullet, a new extrusion head with fixed center design, multi-port spiral flow design and gum space adjustment.

Italian manufacturer Macchi has been actively demonstrating the success of its PolyOlefin Dedicated (POD) 5-layer bubble film extrusion technology.