EXTEN – THE COMPANY

History

Exten SA is a Swiss producer of plastic films, laminates and sheets located in the South of Switzerland, close to the Italian Border.

The company is privately owned and was established in 1981,since then Exten has been constantly growing to reach in 2009 a total turnover of Euro 43 Mil, and has around 105 employees.

In 2006 a new division called EX-P, dedicated to the production of PP Sheets, started operations and is producing full capacity.

The quality of the products is a result of a perfect synergy between the supplier of raw materials, sophisticated technology and the precious know-how of Exten’s people.

The company has been ISO 9001 certified since 1993 (today ISO 9001-2008) and works according to the most modern and efficient procedures.

Constant focus on product development and versatility of the technology are other assets Exten has that enable the company to propose itself on the market has the most innovative and reliable partner of the filed.

Furthermore the outstanding level of service and flexibility typical of a medium size company enables Exten to satisfy each market’s requirements.

Technology

Films

5 layers coextruded films with micro-embossed finish for a more comfortable and natural touch that constitute a full barrier against liquids, contaminants, bacteria, virus and weather elements (no pinholes). The products are based on different kinds of polyolefins (including the last generation engineered co-polymers.

Thanks to continuous innovation EXTEN has been successfully leading the trend of material downgauging maintaining at the same time the technical characteristics, thus reducing the environmental impact of finished products with an additional valuable cost saving.

The film can be printed thanks to a very efficient online proprietary process.

Laminates

The technologies available are:

• On-line coextrusion-lamination (films are directly extruded onto nonwovens without any glue);
• Hot-melt lamination (UFD technology) for special requirements (medical ultra-soft ultra-absorbent products).

Substrates are based on Spunbonded and Termobonded PP or SMS, carded chemical bonded and others (tissue, airlaid, wetlaid) for special applications, whilst films are based on different kinds of polyolefins (including the last generation engineered co-polymers

The process leads to absence of pinholes compared to other standard technologies, based on coating process and the environmental impact (no glue in case of coextrusion laminates) is minimal.

Sheets and Foils

Flexible and resistant compact gloss and embossed polypropylene sheets. The innovative process equipment allows the production of monolayer and co-extruded structures which become absolutely necessary to fulfil technical and graphic solutions

A wide variety of colours and thickness, meets the various requirements which come from very demanding markets.Another important feature is the surface finish obtained by the embossing of the product on both sides with different patterns which will influence the scratch resistance, the final look and hence the application of the product.The material can also be pre-primed to improve the surface wettability.