EuroWire March 2021

Corporate News

LLFlex hires manager for new North Carolina facility

LLFlex, a provider of packaging materials and industrial laminate solutions for the building and construction, wire and cable, and consumer packaging industries, has hired Shawn Sylvester as plant manager for its new manufacturing facility in High Point, North Carolina, USA. Mr Sylvester will oversee day-to-day operations at the recently opened plant, which expands LLFlex’s output capacity and includes equipment supporting its two main business segments – packaging and industrial laminates. Prior to joining LL Flex, Mr Sylvester held several positions during an 18-year tenure with Mannington Wood and Laminate Floors, starting as a quality manager and eventually serving as plant manager. He is certified as a Six Sigma Black Belt and Manager of Quality & Organizational Excellence by the American Society for Quality. assure consistently excellent manufacturing standards as production at the North Carolina facility continues to ramp up,” said Victor Dixon, CEO of LLFlex. “With the spacious new facility providing LLFlex ample elbow room for production growth as well as a regional warehouse, distribution and logistics centre, Shawn’s leadership will be instrumental to adding products and services while ensuring premium product quality.” LLFlex’s North Carolina plant houses high-speed equipment for custom laminating, coating, embossing and slitting to address growing product demand. The facility uses automated slitting and packaging robotics to “Shawn’s quality assurance and management expertise will

provide short lead times and customised solutions. For the company’s packaging segment, new laminators with solvent coating stations and new slitting assets provide additional annual capacity of more than 40mn lb of product. These assets supplement, and provide supply chain risk mitigation for, LLFlex’s existing Louisville facility. For the industrial laminates segment, which caters to the wire and cable, building and construction and other industrial markets, a new laminator with multiple coating stations and dedicated slitter are complemented by an advanced steel, copper and aluminium cable wrap production cell that adds more than 43mn lb of combined slitting and laminated capacity annually for these industrial markets. LLFlex has US manufacturing operations in Kentucky and North Carolina, and sales and supply chain offices in the USA,

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UK and China. It markets its products through a network of global agents and partners. For the wire and cable industry, the company’s line of cable armour, wraps and tapes includes mono and co-ex layered film formulations using high-quality resins throughout the structure for consistent, reliable long-term performance. LLFlex, LLC www.llflex.com

Partnership for Rolf Schlicht and NorMec

Rolf Schlicht GmbH has introduced its partnership with NorMec AS, of Norway.

NorMec is a family-owned company that has developed and produced equipment for hot vulcanisation and infrared splicing solutions for 30 years. Its user-friendly presses for hot vulcanisation include all types of rubber, such as EPDM, NBR, SBR, CE, NR, Viton and silicone. The company also supplies rubber film. Rolf Schlicht GmbH www.schlicht-gmbh.de NorMec AS https://normec.com

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