OUR CAPABILITIES:

Cast & Blown Extrusion Flexo Print Lamination Laser Score Bag Conversion Reclaim

Our business offers an unparalleled range of technologies, enabling us to fulfil and exceed our customers’ needs. Comprehensive extrusion facilities offer a wide range of blown mono, co-ex and cast polyethylene films coupled with our latest investment in state-of-the-art cast polypropylene co-extrusion.

Skymark’s Partnership Development Projects (PDP) have resulted in the development of technically advanced bespoke films across our customer base. Our print facility offers the highest quality gravure standard flexo-printing up to 10 colours, utilising the most advanced technologies. Backing this up is our artwork and origination team, supporting our customers to achieve the best possible designs and impact for their products.

We are committed to caring for our environment and we continue to invest in product reclamation and the development of extruded products to utilise our in-house product arisings, thus minimising our impact on the waste stream.

Cast Extrusion

The multilayer 2.7-metre wide high output line is specifically designed to support the UK market by offering high quality locally produced SKYLENE CPP films for many market sectors.

CPP for lamination applications
Cast polypropylene films are ideal for producing wrap due to their high puncture resistance, excellent sealing and optical properties. Food applications can also include flexible packaging for retort and lidding applications.
Optically clear cast polypropylene film is engineered to meet the demanding requirements with excellent sealing properties

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Blown Extrusion

We produce all the multilayer blown film requirements for the business and are capable of producing films up to a width of 2.6 metres. We continue to develop and maintain close relationships with our polymer suppliers and joint development programmes have resulted in the manufacture of various innovative products that ensure we meet our customers’ needs.

Substantial investment in both cooling ring and die technology coupled with fully computerized IBC high output co-extruders, has further enhanced the quality of our films. Each stage in the manufacture of our products is monitored, controlled, assessed and recorded to ensure the same consistent high quality.

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Flexo Printing

Our business has built an enviable reputation for high-quality flexographic printing and Skymark never relents in its search for innovation and excellence.

We have recently installed a new Allstein 8 + 1 colour press with a downstream unit that can enhance the printing with special finishes to the final product. Utilizing the latest GPS/ARUN gearless flexo presses and HD flexo printing technology, allied to a sophisticated computerized ink mixing and colour control system, we can offer superb, consistent and repeatable print quality with the very highest clarity and impact for point-of-sale packaging.

Lamination

Our lamination film department has invested in a new Nordmeccanica Combi 3000 Laminator to continue our growth within the lamination/barrier film sector.

The Combi 3000 laminator ensures Skymark remains at the forefront of packaging innovation. The Combi 3000 has several features including:

Solventless & Solvent-based adhesive system
In-line one colour print facility
Coating and lacquer
Water-based adhesive
Cold seal in register application

The laminator enables Skymark to expand into other technically advanced markets such as speciality floor wipes, medical and pharmaceutical, retort and high barrier applications.

Skymark has a detailed understanding of lamination film complexities. Coupled with extensive knowledge in blown mono and co-ex films we can match your exact requirements for gauge, slip gloss, strength or sealing properties.

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Slitting & Laser Score

We are equipped with a wide range of slitting machines to provide finished slit reel widths from 50mm to 2.8m.

Our latest investment is in a universal x6 slitter equipped with a Coherent/Rofin Lasers that can produce laser perforation and laser scribing

PERFORATION: The production of micro-perforations (usually <100μm) into a single-ply or laminate film. Typically this application is used to manufacture Modified Atmosphere Packaging (MAP) solutions; such as salad/produce bags. This packing type increases the shelve life of the product

SCRIBING: The removal of a single ply of material within a laminate. This process is typically used for easy-opening solutions within food packaging.
The benefit of this selective weakening application is that the laser will only remove a single ply of the material; this means that the packaging retains its integrity.
There will be a controlled tear along the scribe line; meaning that the contents do not spill out. Web-direction and Cross-Web solutions are available.

Skymark is going to scribe the whole layer of the film, this will create a weak area to open the packaging on single-ply structures i.e. low gauge films.

Bag Conversion

Skymark converted products incorporate our extensive film and printing expertise.

The range includes:

Clear films with superior optical properties
Films with a crisp feel for quality bag applications
State of the art Metallocene films for ultra-high strength and puncture resistance
Mono films with colour and physical properties to match customers’ specification
High-Performance Black / White Co-Ex films and Coloured co-ex films to customers’ specifications
Co-ex films with high gloss inside and out
A combination of properties with high gloss inside and super silk finish outside
High gloss inside and traditional rough paper match outside
Co-ex films with engineered slip (COF) differential
Films with UV inhibitors to increase shelf life on exposure to sunlight
Biodegradable additives for more environmentally friendly bags
High-quality printing to 10 colours with spectacular colour intensity

Reclaim

Skymark has been a registered recycling company for the last 10 years and operates a closed-loop waste system. This is recycling in its truest sense. The recycling process transforms waste into new products, minimising the waste of useful materials.

At Skymark we also take our customers’ waste and turn it back into products with added value applications. Recycling is a key component of modern waste reduction and is the third component of the “Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle” waste hierarchy. At Skymark we have in-house facilities to recover and reclaim both plain and printed polyethylene and polypropylene substrates on our state-of-the-art recycling equipment. Because Skymark operates a closed-loop system all waste streams are fully traceable, making Skymark recycled products of the highest quality.

Repro & Inks

Our graphic design department can design and produce finished printing plates in the shortest time possible, from a simple concept through to digital artwork ready files.

We utilise computer-aided reprographic systems to produce digital-based artwork which provides accurate proofs for customer inspection and produces final colour separated files for transfer to printing plates. The system uses PDF or ISDN.

The final position of the printed image is crucial to the finished appearance of the pack and must be planned accurately when printing on any flexible substrate. At Skymark we have a wealth of experience in the print positioning and lay sheet requirements of our customers’ auto-wrapping machines. Close liaison with machinery manufacturers ensures that we are aware of all current specifications.

We are aware of the crucial importance of presentation and image integrity for point-of-sale applications and we liaise closely with our customers’ marketing and graphic design departments to ensure that the full benefits of excellent flexographic print quality can be achieved.

Information

Skymark Packaging International Ltd
Mannaberg Way
Scunthorpe
DN15 8XF

T: +44 (0) 1724 270 777
E: sales@skymark.co.uk

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OUR CAPABILITIES:

Cast Extrusion

Blown Extrusion

Flexo Printing

Lamination

Slitting & Laser Score

Bag Conversion

Reclaim

Repro & Inks

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