Laser Services for Flexible Packaging Applications
Lasers are our business and for 30 years we have been a leading manufacturer of laser solutions for a variety of industries.
As an innovator in the field of laser flexible packaging, Preco will partner with you to integrate laser technology into your manufacturing stream. Preco’s team of engineers, project managers, and technicians will assist you in all phases of: product design and development, product quality enhancement, product cost evaluation, speed to market/product “ramp up” time lines.
Flexible Packaging
In the consumer goods industry, product packaging is a critical factor in the consumers’ decision-making process. Preco’s, advanced laser technology allows a converter increased flexibility and precision in product processing.
Various beam configurations allow Preco to process a wide range of products. Preco’s highly skilled work cell teams focus on achieving optimum product productivity with ongoing quality testing to ensure your product maintains consistency from start to finish.
Laser Scoring & Micro-Perforating
Laser scoring and micro-perforating are cost effective solutions for creating consumer friendly packaging.
Easy-Open Packaging
Ensure a positive consumer package-opening experience with Preco’s laser scoring process. The laser scoring process delivers controlled tear propagation, for “easy-open” packages, while maintaining package strength and protecting barrier properties
Breathable Packaging
Extend the shelf life of your perishable products with Preco’s micro-perforating laser technology.
Laser micro perforating allows packages containing perishable items to breathe and stay fresh longer. In addition, micro holes also allow trapped air to escape from the bags or pouches to minimize the package size for shipping.
Laser Scoring and Micro-Perforating Applications:
- Easy-Open Packaging
- “Breathable” Packaging
Preco Capabilities:
- Product development
- Package design
- Prototype production
- Product market testing
- Product “ramp-up”
Benefits:
- Improve product quality
- Lower product unit cost
- Shorten lead time to market
- Extend product shelf life
Preco dedication and expertise
Along with the best laser technology in the industry, Preco, Inc. is recognized as having the industries leading Ph.D. level experts, engineers, project managers, technicians and production staff to partner with you and provide solutions to some of your most difficult manufacturing challenges.
Our team is actively involved with the front-end planning process, helping to achieve critical milestones throughout design, testing, prototyping, and production. Preco’s dedication to project management details and ongoing quality assurance reporting ensures that issues related to material quality, processing or logics are addressed immediately. Preco’s high level of support and accountability guarantees your satisfaction.
Preco Laser Processing Advantages
- Score straight or curved easy-open lines
- Ideal for zipper/slider closures
- Consistent depth & uniformity of score lines
- Eliminate scrap with ramp-up and ramp-down features
- Uniform, round, perforated holes
- Repeatable, precise and easily adjusted
- Clean, no slugs
- Fast, speeds up to 366 m (1200 ft)/minute
- AcuTear® Scoring and Shape Cutting
- Allows for controlled tear propagation while maintaining
package strength and barrier properties - Web direction, cross-web and contour processing (2D)
- Closed loop power control
- Developed for easy-open, easy-tear features
- Multi-level, dash and continuous scoring
AcuBreathe® Micro-Perforating
- AcuBreathe® laser micro-perforating for airflow, burst protection and moisture transmission
- Produces extremely reliable holes with consistency up to 10 times that of typical laser perforations
- .076mm (.003”) diameter holes at 300 m 1000 ft)/minute
- Process capability at 3 sigma limits of .076 mm (.003”) ± .008mm (.00035” )
Materials
- Film, foils and laminates
- Quality Control
- Microscopic cross section imaging
- Tensile testing
- Airflow measurement
Processing Tools
- Web processing speeds up to 366 m (1200 ft)/minute
- Ramp-up / ramp-down power control to minimize scrap
- Web widths to 1270 mm (50”)
- Eye-mark registration