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Contact: Jill DaPonte
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Parkinson Technologies Winder Shown In History Channel Television Feature
Spartech Corporation Featured in Special on "History of Oil"; Parkinson Winder Appears in Clip
November 21, 2008
Woonsocket, RI
A recent episode of the History Channel television searies "Modern Marvels" shows a clip of a Parkinson Technologies winder in action. The winder is in service at the Spartech Corporation plastics plant in La Mirada, CA.
Spartech Corporation, a producer of engineered thermoplastic sheet materials, thermoformed packaging, polymeric compounds, and engineered products, was featured in the program as the leading sheet extruder in North America. The one hour long show detailed the history of the oil industry and featured segments showing the variety of products produced from oil, which included plastic.
Modern Marvels highlighted plastics manufacturing in action by showing sheet extrusion that featured a Parkinson winder as the final stage of rollstock production. By presenting this process, viewers were able to see a Parkinson winder winding sheet into rollstock and a first hand view of plastic sheet extrusion from start to finish. The goal was to show viewers how plastic pellets produced from oil are processed from raw material into finished goods.
About Parkinson Technologies
Parkinson Technologies Inc. is a leading designer and manufacturer of large-scale web-handling, winding and plastics processing equipment, and is the parent company for Marshall & Williams brand processing lines, Parkinson winders, and Key Filters screen changers. 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.
About Spartech
Spartech Corporation is a leading producer of engineered thermoplastic sheet materials, thermoformed packaging, polymeric compounds and concentrates, and engineered product solutions. The Company has facilities located throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico and Europe with annual sales of approximately $1.4 billion.
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