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Parkinson Technologies New Contractor Roll Winder Helps Raven Industries Achieve Performance Objectives

January 5, 2007
Woonsocket, RI-USA

Parkinson Technologies announces the successful commissioning of a new winder design for the contractor and consumer roll market. The design was developed to meet the need for short-cycle winding of wide webs, either in-line or off-line, in order to efficiently produce market-ready rolls suitable for end-market sale without further converting. Parkinson worked closely with Raven Industries' Engineered Films Division to help them achieve challenging productivity and cost objectives in winding market-ready rolls of Raven's house wrap material. The winder produces 12-foot wide rolls of material with lengths between 100 and 200 lineal feet of reinforced house wrap on 2-inch cores at the rate of two rolls per minute. Auto-loading of cores is accomplished at a maximum rate of 120 per hour. The winder includes an innovative traversing mechanism that incorporates a hot melt glue dispenser and knife to automatically adhere the web to the core, cut the web at the specified lineal distance and then adhere the cut end to the finished roll. Raven previously utilized a labor intensive process that was significantly challenged to achieve productivity and safety improvements.

About Raven Industries. Raven Industries is a NASDAQ-listed, diversified manufacturer based in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Its three core divisions are Engineered Films - makers of ultra thin and reinforced plastic sheeting, Electronic Systems - electronics manufacturing services, and Flow Controls - manufactureers of precision products for agriculture. The company also provides manufacturing services and products through its Aerostar subsidiary.

About Parkinson Technologies. Parkinson Technologies Inc. is a leading designer and manufacturer of large-scale web-handling, winding and plastics processing equipment. With a world-class pilot plant facility, Parkinson also offers its customers complete flexibility to conduct plastics sheet/film extrusion and orientation R&D and to produce commercially viable marketing samples. Parkinson's customers include a broad range of companies from venture-backed startups to fortune 50 enterprises, all of whom demand innovative solutions to their web processing challenges.