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Parkinson Technologies To Highlight Marshall & Williams Brand Monoaxial & Biaxial Oriented Processing Lines at K 2007.
October 24-31, 2007
Woonsocket, RI-USA
Parkinson Technologies Inc., a leading global provider of winding, web handling, and plastics orientation equipment for the continuous web processing market, will feature its Marshall & Williams brand biaxial oriented processing lines at K 2007 in Dusseldorf, Germany.
Parkinson, the parent company for Marshall & Williams brand processing lines, Parkinson Winders, and Key Filters screen changers, will also announce details of its new "Customer Success" program, a recently implemented corporate-wide initiative that defines the company's mission, guiding values, and value proposition to its customers.
Turnkey Solutions
A key benefit that Parkinson offers customers is the availability of complete turnkey solutions for the production of monoaxial and biaxially oriented film and sheet. From the resin feeding to the plastics extrusion to winding and slittting, a turnkey Parkinson system provides customers with the advantage of single-source supplier expertise and responsibility.
Marshall & Williams orientation systems are used for the production of a wide variety of films including BOPS, BOPP, BOPET, BOPLA, BOPTFE, and PETG, to name a few. Systems feature state-of-the-art integrated controls and are available for increasingly popular machine-direction orientation (MDO) and transverse-direction orientation (TDO) applications. Key specifications of these biax systems include:
- stretch ratios: up to 20:1 (MDO) and 30:1 (TDO)
- line speed: up to 1,500 fpm (500 mpm)
- production rates: up to 5 tons/hour
- finished widths: up to 30 feet (10 m)
- finished thickness: from 3- 1,000 microns
"Marshall & Williams has been a respected name in web equipment since the company was founded in 1920 and an industry leader in plastics orientation systems since 1948," said Peter Termyn, President & CEO of Parkinson Technologies. "As part of Parkinson Technologies the brand's recognition is growing worldwide."
What Is Customer Success?
Parkinson has recently implemented its new "Customer Success" program, a corporate-wide initiative that defines the company's mission, guiding values, and value proposition to its customers.
"By putting this program in place, every employee at Parkinson Technologies takes ownership for the company's performance," said Termyn. "In our business there is no individual employee who does not have a connection with the customer. We want everyone at our company to know that all of our efforts start and end with creating customer success."
The new program is designed to ensure that customer expectations are met or exceeded. It defines key guiding values such as communication, quality & Safety, innovation and continual improvement, all of which lead to the goal of customer success.
"As a company with multiple brands of products we have a wealth of engineering, sales and service expertise," said Termyn. "We feel the value proposition we offer our customers- unique benefits they receive from us- is unmatched in the industry." This includes:
- Flexibility - provide complete design, manufacturing and R&D capabilities
- Performance - deliver engineered solutions based on proven performance over a broad range of applications
- Innovation - Leverage applications and pilot plant knowledge into technology advancement and performance leadership
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.