NDC ships world's largest scanner to China
NDC Infrared Engineering has shipped what is believed to be the largest
scanning frame ever built which is being used in a polypropylene film
application in China. The frame, which is 11.5 metres wide, and can measure
films up to 10.4 metres wide, features NDC's near-infrared gauge which
moves along the frame at high speed. The scanning frame has been purchased
by Hefei Goufeng Plastics Group of China to accurately measure the thickness
of their biaxially oriented polypropylene film, which is used in food
and cigarette packaging. Biaxially oriented film is film in which the
molecules are oriented in both machine and cross-machine directions by
stretching, which makes it stronger than conventional film. NDC's scanning
gauges can be used on both the pre-stretched cast web and the finished
film, achieving precise cross-web measurement to ensure consistent thickness.
The scanner is the 45th biax system that NDC has installed in China since
the first system was sold there in 1974. Since NDC first established a
local office in Guangzhou in 1994, the company has installed hundreds
of gauging systems and thousands of infrared sensors in China.