Corona Treatment Customer Stories
The real world is where you find out if the corona treating equipment you purchase will live up to its billing. We’re happy to say that Enercon is a market leader when it comes to customer satisfaction. And while not every customer is in a position to share their experiences with the world, there are many who are quite willing. On this page you’ll find links to articles about Enercon corona treater customers and how they’ve overcome challenges with a little assistance from the Enercon Team. We hope you’ll enjoy reading them as much as we’ve enjoyed helping our customers be successful.
Blown Film Applications
Cast Film Applications
Printing Applications
Coating Applications
- Coating Excellence International poised for expansion after receiving award & VP visit [Preview]
In 1997 Bill Arndt and Mike Nowak decided to start their own business under the name Coating Excellence International (CEI). The Wrightstown, Wisconsin firm has averaged an astounding 82 percent annual sales growth over the last six years.
- Custom coating specialist thrives with diverse use of surface treaters [Preview]
One of the most important components Wausau Coated Products builds into its converting lines is corona treating. Its livelihood and profitability are tied to the performance of the corona treaters, so when these systems started breaking down and causing problems, Stogbauer knew something had to be done fast.
- Dow develops new resin technologies with versatile corona treating [Preview]
The Dow Polyolefins and Elastomers (PO&E) Technical Service and Development Group recently invested heavily in its laboratory capabilities via a new extrusion coating and lamination line. Located at the group's R&D headquarters in Freeport, TX this multi-million dollar line, supplied by Black Clawson Converting Machinery LLC (Fulton, NY), enables Dow engineers to develop and evaluate new resin technologies, as well as provide fast resolution of day-to-day technical issues for customers.
- Quality Edge Converting Finally Retires 30-Year-Old Enercon Corona Treater [Preview]
Quality Edge Converting just bought their first corona treater directly from Enercon. It’s equipped with the latest Compak™ Pro power supply and produces powerful corona to enable ink and adhesive bonding with polyester-based and polypropylene films. This treater replaces a 30-year-old Enercon corona treater the company inherited when they acquired another company 15 years ago.
Laminating Applications
- Chase and Sons' expand capabilities [Preview]
Chase & Sons' Webster, MA, was recently featured in Paper Film and Foil Converter Magazine. The company is in the middle of an extensive facility and capabilities expansion for their high-speed, solventless, 100% solids laminating line.
- Corona Treater Improves Bonding for OPP/CPP on Nordmeccanica Laminator [Preview]
To ensure those bonds are as strong as possible, Golden Eagle Extrusions purchased two high definition corona treaters from Enercon. One is mounted at the primary unwind, and the other is mounted on the secondary unwind. The treaters are designed specifically to integrate with the Nordmeccanica laminator both electrically and mechanically.
- Corona treatment builds better bonds for BOPP laminates at Prestige Pak [Preview]
Snack-food flexible packaging converter, Prestige-Pak, adds two Enercon universal roll corona treaters to ensure lamination strength and to improve dyne levels.
- New solventless laminating line raises the level of service for Rohm and Haas customers [Preview]
From meeting environmental regulations to reducing operational costs solventless laminating has many advantages. If you're not sure if solventless laminating is right for your operation then you should bring your questions to the Rohm and Haas team at their Midwest Pilot Coating Facility in Ringwood, IL.
- Surface treating is key to laminating uniformity [Preview]
A proprietary laminating process developed by Optimanufacturing of Green Bay, Wisconsin, allows the company to produce the CDfender®, a new product designed to protect the surface of compact discs (CDs).
- Visionary ePac Disrupts Flexible Packaging Marketplace with Key Suppliers Nordmecannica & Enercon [Preview]
To disrupt an industry, you first need to understand how it works, find the opportunity gap, and then commit to filling it with purpose. The visionary team of ePac Flexible Packaging are well on their way of creating a new business model that provides brands of all sizes with access to high quality, custom flexible packaging. And now, with the help of leading technology suppliers, they are taking their business model international.
Extrusion Coating Applications
- Co-extrusion & adhesion capabilities give Scapa N.A. an edge [Preview]
Scapa North America's purchase of Great Lakes Technologies in Syracuse, New York is an impressive addition to their well established line of specialty pressure-sensitive adhesive films, tapes, and compounds.
- Flexible extrusion line is a novel idea [Preview]
What does an already-successful converter do when Opportunity knocks? If healthcare customers are at the door, and they're asking for high-barrier packaging capability that you don't have enough of, you'd better get it. And that's exactly what Amcor Flexibles Madison, WI did.
Narrow Web Printing Applications
- "Voice of the customer" drives Ad Tape and Label's growth [Preview]
About the only thing not growing at ATL is the grass. And even that's only a temporary condition as the dust settles on the company's recent plant expansion.
- Baxter Healthcare reduces material costs 70% with in-line printing and treating [Preview]
Baxter Healthcare is reaping rewards after revamping their intravenous tubing devices' packaging strategy. The switch from preprinted material to in-line printing has reduced costs and improved flexibility.
- Haney PRC improves productivity with Enercon treater and HP Indigo Press [Preview]
Haney PRC serves as a comprehensive industry resource after the design process all the way to the full print run. In order to provide its customers with the most innovative and high quality prototypes and mock-ups, the Haney brothers have invested in an impressive collection of printing technology.
- Award Winning Packages with Custom Press and Corona Treater Innovation [Preview]
When your customers include the global leaders in the highly competitive consumer products market you need to be prepared to be innovative. Control Group®s’ Chief Operating Officer Jim Imburgia says “Many of the flexible packaging products we produce today started out as a concept from our customers, it was up to us and our suppliers to make their vision become a reality.”
- Winpak Control Group Defies Pandemic Delays with Help from Enercon [Preview]
Winpak Control Group is an award-winning leader in the production of printed packaging components for the pharmaceutical and personal care product industries. As the COVID-19 pandemic wreaked havoc on supply chains, Winpak was in a unique position to continue making timely deliveries to their customers with help from Enercon.
- ETI Partners with Enercon to Simplify Label Stock Production [Preview]
ETI Converting offers fully integrated printing, coating and converting lines that enable production of pressure sensitive adhesive materials and labels, from A to Z, in a single pass. The company’s innovative approach eliminates the need to outsource label stock procurement with a fully integrated label printing, adhesive/silicone coating, laminating & finishing machine. A partnership with Enercon Industries Corporation ensures reliable corona treating, which is key to enabling coating adhesion.