Committed to the best

We make use of the latest in extrusion, printing, lamination, and converting technology – and work with raw material and machine suppliers, as well as research institutes, to ensure that our solutions offer excellent performance and strength, usability in a wide range of machines, and top-quality printing. This enables us to help our customers speed up their production processes, minimise waste, and produce better products.

Extrusion

Suominen produces plastic films using blown film extrusion method, which is one of the common methods of film manufacture where the melted plastic materials are pressed through the round die and the plastic is draw upwards by haul of unit. The film cools down and becomes solid plastic film.

Flexographic printing

Printing expertise has always been one of the key strengths of Suominen Flexibles, and this has been instrumental in giving our customers a true taste of what we mean when we talk about Suominen quality. In-house prepress is an integrated part of our printing process and its demand. This brings flexibility and the best possible end result for our customer's design.

Flexographic printing is a relief printing process technology suitable especially for the printing of flexible packaging materials. This technology is also called as a surface printing, because printing inks are deposited upon the surface of the printing plate using an engraved surface holds a specific amount of ink to be transferred to the substrate.

Suominen Flexibles makes use of the advantages of the off-line flexographic printing process up to 10-colours. We can offer printing on the reverse of products as well. Retail carrier bags are manufactured also by using a highly efficient, high-output in-line method. These in-line machines combine extrusion and printing as a non-stop process.

Laminating

Suominen Flexibles is also an expert in lamination and produces multilayer laminated films for a range of product applications using a solvent-free process and high-quality adhesives. Our product development know-how covers the entire lamination process, and we can offer solutions for a wide variety of different customer requirements and packing facilities.

Our lamination expertise gives packaging very attractive visuals, high-quality surfaces, and excellent protection against wear and tear and chemical damage. We can process wide range of materials such as polypropylene, polyethylene, EVOH, PET or paper.

Converting

Suominen Flexibles offers customer specific solutions manufactured specifically for different packaging machines. Converted packaging solutions are for example ready-made wicket bags for packaging of food and hygiene products, such as fresh bread, sanitary towels or incontinence pads.

Our bags are also customised according to the customer’s packaging lines and can be manufactured with or without handles. We are also able to offer reclosable bags for different packaging purposes. Suominen’s retail carrier bags can be supplied with various handle solutions.

Our V-folded film, supplied as an open-ended continuous tube, is excellent for packaging of tissue products or fresh food, such as potatoes and vegetables. It simplifies the packing process, as packing and sealing is carried out on one and the same machine – keeping costs down as well.