In a short time, TTR Base Film Manufacturers expanded the business by adding new applications, including the bags used to transport carpets, replacing a 2 mil LDPE structure with a 0.75 HDPE-HMW structure. Then he added another line and started making laminating film, a market in which Shah says Hamilton has a 60 percent share. This needs to change the production capacity of cane.
Back to the roots of the obstacle

As Shah notes, his company's growth has happened faster than he ever imagined. Then he realized: "I will look at the barrier technology of seven or nine layers, which I consider to be my greatest area of ​​experience and experience." » So in 2019, Hamilton Plastics bought its first nine-layer line, supplied by Macchi. "We started producing films and not a kilogram was returned for a quality problem of any kind," says Shah. "But our customers started asking us, 'Which one is yours?'
emergency solution if the line goes down? » I didn't have a backup solution, so I bought another one. »

The low temperature heat sealable film perfectly with Shah's background, which has always been developing innovative products and solving problems. "The market needs films that contain layers of nylon skin for moldable and non-moldable meshes. So the lines we bought have the flexibility to do this, up to 5-10% of the total thickness. (Shah worked personally with the Macchi engineers in Italy to make the necessary design changes to the tread.) It could also have nylon or EVOH in the middle, or only EVOH in the middle, or
in many layers. This market offers a great opportunity. We are seeing all metallized films replaced with barrier sealants and reverse printed PET laminates,” notes Shah. Hamilton Plastics is entering the nine-layer film market

Although there is a lot of competition in the barrier film industry, Shah believes that Hamilton Plastics stands out because of its service, price and "they don't tell customers what to do." Price comes into play in part because, Shah says, some of his competitors in the film processing business use more expensive barrier resin than the application requires.

"There is a need in the market for film products that contain layers of nylon skin, so the lines we have purchased have the flexibility to do this, up to 5-10% of the total thickness"

But Shah didn't let his former employer take the blame. While starting his business, he also stayed in the old factory, working two days a week and training his replacement.

At that time, at the suggestion of a major brand client, Shah began to focus on the high molecular weight density PE bag manufacturing market. This client happened to try the production of HMW-HDPE film, but its board of directors voted against continuing the operation because the material and the technology of the machine had to be acquired overseas. Shah explains: "My contact told me, 'This is a great opportunity for someone. With HMW-HDPE you can reduce the thickness
with a third and offer three times the puncture resistance and you'll be fine. We would have been the first to do this, but our board of directors refused. »

Shah responded by entering the BOPP film manufacturers by founding Hamilton and acquiring an HMW-HDPE milk production line. After some initial skepticism and concerns about the cracking of the HMW-HDPE coating, their business grew rapidly, as their 0.75 mil bag performed as well as any LDPE twice as thick. Within a year, Shah's business had grown to four lines, all from Kuhne (since replaced by the Kiefel/Reifenhauser lines), selling bags for distributors. “Our first distributor
he was one of the skeptics," Shah recalls. "He told me he would accept four pallets, but he didn't pay anything in advance. He told me that if the bags break, I have to come and collect them. I agreed. » In two weeks, he came in a truck, drove it to the door of my bank, and said, "Fill this thing up."

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