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Inteplast’s AmTopp Division has begun production on one of its two stretch film extrusion lines and plans to increase its current workforce by more than 37 percent soon, when the second stretch film line goes into production. Stretch film, made from linear low-density polyethylene, is used to secure goods during their transport, allowing for palletized loads and other profile types to be stabilized, unitized, and protected from dust or other unhygienic or corrosive elements.
Combined, the stretch film and pre-stretch extrusion lines are estimated to yield a monthly average of 2 million pounds in product until the startup of the second stretch film line, when it increases to 5 million pounds. Currently the plant’s pre-stretch production has averaged more than 500,000 pounds per month for the last year-and-a-half. The Remington facility is slated to produce up to 60 million pounds of film per year.
AmTopp Division President Homer Hsieh said that the stretch film product offerings available at Remington now mirror the facility’s four sister plants in Lolita and Houston, TX; Charlotte, NC; and Phoenix, AZ.
The architect and leader of the project, Benjamin Wang, whose tenure at Inteplast and expertise in stretch film spans more than three decades, looks forward to the plant’s success. Customers will have options ranging from machine and hand films from AmTopp’s High Performance Load Series, Engineered Ultra High Performance Series, Premium Value Film Series, as well as color-tinted stretch film from the Specialty Film Series.
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