Avery Dennison Roll Materials Europe New Laminating Coater Line, Rodange, Luxembourg

Avery Dennison Roll Materials Europe completed the installation and commissioning of their new state-of-the-art coating line in October 2003 at Rodange in Luxembourg. The Rodange plant already had one smaller coating line, which was running at full capacity. The new coating line is a custom built system designed to run at three times the speed of previous coating systems and will increase the output of the plants Fasson brand emulsion adhesive products accordingly. The new coater will give high quality coating and laminating capability and will also free up some capacity on the other coater (Lux1) for more specialist, performance-critical products and for R&D work.

The plant supplies packaging customers with high volume industrial papers (such as the high throughput Fasson S2000N) and direct thermal and thermal transfer products. The new second coating line and a fully automated warehouse at the Rodange facility required an investment of €48 million (the largest ever capital investment by the company). The installation of the new coating line was started in September 2002 and took only 54 weeks to complete. With the installation of the new coating line Avery Dennison customers can benefit from the increased output and the newly instigated best practice and quality programmes, such as Design for Six Sigma.

CONTRACTOR AND INSTALLATION

The new coating line is 115m long and 2m wide. Faustel Inc supplied the equipment and formed a project team for the installation alongside Avery Dennison engineers. The installation involved the fitting of over 700t of components into the new line. The new coater is code-named Lux2 and is capable of siliconisation, adhesive coating and lamination in line. The system also features advanced process control, including 'recipe' control and in-line measurement.

The Lux2 is supported by a new fully-automated warehouse, which benefits from an enhanced finishing area with seven new slitters and a fully-automated packaging line. The new finishing area will also enable the facility to extend the number of Fasson Exact and Fasson Exact Plus programs it can offer to customers, which save time and cost by providing rolls to exact width requirements for a particular job, without waste. There are expansion and enhancement plans for Lux2 in the future. The system allows the opportunity for the addition of newly developed 'add-ons', many of which are at an advanced development stage and will be ready for the next upgrade.

FASSON BRAND CARDBOARD AND LABELS

The Fasson brand includes an extensive range of specialty coated cardboard for primary and secondary packaging as well as labels for the packaging industry. The cardboard for cartons can be supplied in a range of thicknesses and can be thermally sensitive for printing, or chemical and temperature resistant for food packaging in low temperatures and where oil/fat resistance is required. The Fasson brand also includes labels and its Mix & Match programme offers more than 50,000 label combinations. The company can also carry out custom constructions for packaging through the Fasson Specialty division.

ABOUT THE COMPANY

Avery Dennison is a worldwide manufacturer of self-adhesive materials, tapes and labels, office products, tags retail systems and specialty chemicals. Fasson is a part of the Avery Dennison group of companies.

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