API Foils upgrades with GVE metallizer

Metallizing is a key process in the production of the finished products from API and with increasing business, API Foils Rahway chose General for their next high productivity metallizer, the EHF (2250 mm web width) vacuum web coater.

The General EHF vacuum metallizer is specifically designed for high volume metallizing of a wide range of plastic films ranging from BOPP, PET, and CPE to LDPE, UPVC, and Nylon. Its robust reliability combined with high coating quality and process control at speeds up to 840 m/min (2756 ft/min), has established this machine as one of the most successful in the General portfolio.