PEWAUKEE, WI—PPC Technologies & Solutions LLC (PPCTS), a U.S. and Canada distributor of HCI Converting Equipment Co. Ltd. (HCI), has just opened a new demo and Technology Center for HCI’s pouch and bag making machinery and slitter rewinders.
The new demo and technology center is now operational with the recent installations of an HCI FTSC-V600 Pouch Making Machine as well as an HCI FSL-TX1300 Slitter Rewinder.
The demo center’s HCI FTSC-V600 pouch making machine is equipped to produce one or two across standup pouches with bottom gusset introduction and zipper, one or two across three side sealed bags/pouches, one across folded bottom gusset standup pouches, as well as dual web capability for registered printed pouches. The HCI FSL-TX1300 Slitter Rewinder is capable of slitting various types of flexible packaging films at speeds up to 400 meters per minute (mpm) with an unwind maximum diameter of 39.4-in. (1,000-mm.) and a maximum rewind diameter of 31.5-in. (800-mm.).
Richard McDonald, president of PPCTS, noted, “the opening of our 6,000+ sq. ft. demo and technology center is a major investment and a testament to our commitment to offer competitively priced high performance equipment solutions to our growing number of customers serving the pouch, bag and flexible packaging markets. Our customers and prospects will now have the opportunity to demo and test the HCI equipment prior to making a purchase decision and/or even conduct testing on new structures or pouch styles and types, in complete confidentially. This investment will greatly enhance our opportunities to secure machine sales, as customers and prospects will get to ‘test drive’ the equipment.”