OPP Film takes first next-gen Atlas CW5400

Lima, Peru-based OPP Film, which is part of Oben Holding Group, has ordered two Atlas CW5400 film slitters with the first to be installed later this year this year. It will be used to process the world’s widest metallized BOPP film currently available at 4,500mm. The second CW5400 film slitter will be installed and commissioned in early 2015.

The Atlas CW5400 is available in widths from 3,600 to 5,400mm and the complete CW series of more compact film slitting solutions now covers machine widths from 2,500mm to 10,400mm with running speeds up to 1,500m/min. Atlas said has now sold more than 70 of the CW series since its introduction in 2012, in widths from 2,500mm to 10,400mm for BOPP, BOPET and CPP film processing.

OPP Film develops, produces and sells polypropylene (PP) film for flexible packaging for consumer goods and other industrial applications, coated film for the graphic arts industry and thermoformed PP products. It is now present in more than 25 countries across the Americas, Africa and Europe.

The company commenced BOPP film production in 1991 with the foundation of BOPP del Ecuador, which exported film to the neighbouring countries of Colombia and Peru, and then commenced production of BOPP film in Peru in 2003 with the establishment of OPP Film in Lima. 

Continuing expansion of the business has led Oben Holding Group to invest in additional BOPP, BOPET and CPP film lines, an extrusion coating line, vacuum metallizing machinery, plus the acquisition of other South American film producers.