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Trust in plasTics.

We do in exTrusion.

01 | THE BEST WAY TO PREDICT THE FUTURE IS TO INVENT IT

Costruzioni Meccaniche Luigi Bandera is a global leader in designing and manufacturing

extrusion lines for several applications including: blown film lines, foil and sheet lines, as well as

complete rigid and soft PVC pelletizing machines and extruders for steel pipe coating.

Costruzioni Meccaniche Luigi Bandera mission is:

to affirm itself as an international extrusion process excellence centre which combines

designing, engineering, manufacturing and service;

to supply technologically advanced solutions to the plastic industry;

to provide exceptional value to the customer with safe, efficient and low power consumption

lines thus favouring recycled and biodegradable material processing;

to achieve customer satisfaction by understanding the customers needs and exceeding the

customers expectations;

to deliver reliable machines and to provide the highest quality service;

to continuously improve the capabilities of the employees and treat them as valued contributors

to the success of the Company.

Bandera was established in 1947 by Luigi Bandera and soon proved to be a strong expanding

company, thus contributing to the actual development of plastics processing industry in Europe.

In 1960s 1970s, Bandera activities underwent remarkable expansion to reach an industrial scale

production, offering a wide and diversified range of extrusion products, such as pipe extrusion

lines, profile extrusion equipment, sheet extrusion lines.

In 1980s 1990s the company was acknowledged as one of the leaders in blown film extrusion

and sheet extrusion in Europe and worldwide.

Bandera, currently managed by Piero and Franco, the founders sons, has recently focussed

its product range on the main application of packaging and converting, developing detailed

worldwide sales and service operations and enlarging again the production facility to satisfy

the customer need to test complete plants.

Mission

History

OUR MISSION AND HISTORY

GLOBAL PRESENCE

AFTER SALES AND TECHNICAL SERVICE

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PRODUCT RANGE AND PRODUCTION PROCESS

ENGINEERING AND INNOVATION

02 | THINK GLOBAL, DO LOCAL

Banderas goal is to have a global vision while acting locally.

Besides being international, the company is also local considering that its roots are based in the

handicraft tradition that allowed made in Italy to become important all over the world.

It is global, because it is able to act on the world stage with a single strategy based on the concept

of the customer focus. Such a focus is reflected in the flexibility of a highly specialized structure

capable of operating simultaneously on different projects at a local and global level. It is reflected

in the project management methods aimed at supporting the customer during all the project

phases, from engineering to installation, up to the after-sale and support services. It is reflected

in the absolute control on all kinds of processing phases, which are performed by internal

departments in order to ensure the highest quality and the respect of the delivery terms.

The 4 Bandera service centres, located in Italy, Belgium, China and Brazil, take care,

respectively, of customers from South Europe, Africa and Middle East, North Europe, Asia and

North and South America.

A capillary sales network of agents acts actively to be quick and to satisfy the demands of all

Banderas clients.

Service centres

Sales network

GLOBAL PRESENCE


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All around the orld!

Head Quarters and Service CentreSouth Europe, Africa and Middle East

Guatemala

Chile

South AfricaArgentina

Mexico

Spain

France

Egypt

England

Austria

Scandinavia

Germany

Colombia

Cuba

USA and Canada, SBA with PTI(Service Centre America)

Belgium(Service Centre North Europe)

Brazil(Service Centre Americas)

GLOBAL PRESENCE

China(Branch Office and Service Centre Asia)

Indonesia

Thailand

Turkey

Sud Korea

Poland

RussianFederation

Singapore Malaysia

India


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03 | INNOVATION AS A LIFESTYLE FOR BANDERA PEOPLE

Bandera engineering is a well-structured process used to deliver both short-term innovation

initiatives as well as medium and long term projects. Being a technology company, Bandera is

used to continuously growing and reshaping its technology base to provide its customers with a

stream of new machineries, exploiting improved or new properties.

A close contact with the market provides R&D with several market-pull innovation proposals.

Bandera establishes a very close relationship with customers, partners and suppliers pursuing a

co-development as well as a co-design approach.

A collaborative, open innovation model is often adopted by Bandera to rapidly implement the

best business model, looking for value creation and value sharing among partners. Cooperation

agreements and open collaborative projects are aimed at exploiting specific strategic resources in

the short term or for exploration activities to develop know-how in the field of packaging and

converting, so to pave the way of future extrusion.

Technology is a mindset deeply embedded into the Bandera people, is a fluently spoken language

to speak with customers, with partners and with suppliers. Bandera extrusion is a living ecosystem,

growing, changing, and breathing, tightly interconnected with the world of plastics.

Bandera incessantly fuels the components of its technology portfolio that include competence,

tools and methods to model, design and optimize machineries, engineer and rapidly turn a

proof-of-concept into manufacturing of a plant.

Collaborative model

Exploration activities



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Built on an industrial complex of more than 55.000 sq. mts, Bandera internally design and

manufacture mechanical components, such as large size extruder screws, barrels and die-heads.

Our in-house manufacturing facility ensures the best quality as well as a prompt supply of spare

parts, including non-standard or out of production components.

Development staff with in-depth knowledge of rheology accommodates, in a dedicated brand

new plant, R&D industrial tests and executes complete line wet trials.

Bandera extrusion process combines industrial series production with engineering, R&D, quality

check procedures and after service.

Extrusion plants for single and multilayer rigid film are mainly intended for plastic food packaging,

while blown film extrusion is mainly intended for flexible packaging industry, agriculture process

and converting industry.

04 | PACKAGING AND CONVERTING: THE FUTURE OF EXTRUSION



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04.1 | BLOWN FILM EXTRUSION

Adhering to strict compliance with accredited procedures and accuracy in selecting reliable and

skilled European part suppliers, Bandera is focused on exclusive in-house manufacture of the

basic equipment for its blown film extrusion lines - a reason for the company excellence in the

field.

Bandera is ranked among the few European and world manufacturers of extrusion machinery

whose technological assets feature a know-how combining synergies of rigid and flexible

packaging fields with the experience acquired in direct production of blown film extrusion heads

in small, medium and large sizes.

Bandera blown film extrusion lines are equipped with automatic quality control systems, such as

loss-in-weight gravimetric dosing system, in-line film thickness measurement, automatic winding,

supervisory system and user-friendly computerised line control.

The full production range includes:

Techno Flex plus blown film machines mainly, used in the flexible packaging industry,

converting and lamination industry for the production of multi layer film;

HDB Flex equipment mainly used for the production of industrial bags;

HYBRID Flex machines particularly suggested for industrial application;

Smart Flex plus blown film plants for the production of retail bags and bags of different shapes

and sizes, as well as shrink film. This machine series is characterized by a competitive investment

level, high productivity, enlarged thickness range, maximized flexibility and efficiency and

reduced power consumption;

complete blown film multilayers big plants for the production of agricultural film and

geomembrane HDPE, field in which Bandera is the leading company in the world.

Control systems

Production range

main production lines


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04.2 | FOIL AND SHEET EXTRUSION

Bandera manufactures complete extrusion lines for the production of high thickness windable

single and multilayer.

The company is world leader in extrusion technology intended for high rate outputs (up to and

over 2,500kg/h), thickness and width range (0.12 2mm up to and over 2,400mm width) for the

production of PET foil.

Furthermore, Bandera innovatively developed bulk dosing systems for master batches and

mineral fillers for composite sheet by co-rotating twin-screw and/or cascade extruders combined

with innovative and precise raw material gravimetric loss-in-weight dosing units, fully automated

multi-reel winding systems for high-speed foil extrusion lines and melt super filtration systems.

Innovative know-how and technologies are applied to a cutting edge thermoplastic process in

applications such as 120micron 2mm thickness windable foil from HIPS, PP, CRPS, A/CPET, PETG

and PLA, for rigid thermoformed food packaging.

Bandera also manufactures complete extrusion lines for the production of thick sheet for the

following applications:

thin PP and PET sheet intended for paper and cardboard industry;

mid-thick sheet from PS and ABS/ABS-PMMA intended for household appliances;

mixed material sheet, such as thermoplastic rubbers and non-homogeneous industrial waste,

for vehicle components and deep draw thermoforming;

technical sheet from HDPE, PP, HMWPE, PC mixed with ABS;

flexible sheet intended for waterproofing applications, such as multilayer PP/PE geomembranes,

with internal fibre reinforcement and outer nonwoven fabrics;

high transparency and optical quality sheet from PET, PC, and PMMA;

high opalescent sheet from PMMA/ABS intended for panels and movable edges.

The best technology

Sheet extrusion

main production lines


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04.3 | PVC - PET PELLETIZING AND STEEL PIPE COATING

Costruzioni Meccaniche Luigi Bandera designs and manufactures complete rigid and soft PVC and

PET pelletizing lines for several and various applications.

The core process of PVC pelletizing is made of the twin-screw extruder featuring parallel

counter-rotating twin screws with increased length (L/D 1:28). This extruder stands out for

enhanced product quality - material jellification in the barrel is made step by step and under lower

stress conditions -, and for high productivity with high flexibility in recipes.

PET pelletizing process is made of co-rotating twin screw extruders and PET/PP pelletizing lines

for direct extrusion for compounding and recycling.

Co-rotating extruders applied to compounding extrusion are used in a large number of high tech

applications in several vertical markets, among which the most important are food, textile and

automotive.

Bandera has been operating in the thermoplastic resin and steel pipe coating industries for over

20 years, offering complete extrusion systems for outer thermoplastics (PE and adhesive) coating

lines intended for steel pipes for ducting, especially in hydrocarbon transportation.

Coating lines are divided into sleeve-type extrusion, with a coating head intended for pipe

diameters up to 24 and side-banded extrusion (flat die head) for pipe diameters up to 80.

All lines are able to produce composite multilayer plastics/steel pipes and coating lines/heads

for steel drawn products; all of them are equipped with automated quality control and user-

friendly computer supervision systems to ensure substantial savings in steel coating resins.

PVC pelletizing

PET pelletizing

auxiliary lines

The lines

Steel pipe coating


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05 | TECHNICAL SERVICE IS A SERIOUS MATTER

This is the claim of the technical and after-sales service team committed to achieve customer

satisfaction and to support every client with customized assistance both at the line start-up and

testing, and at the production stage.

The range of services that Bandera offers are aimed at increasing productivity, reducing waste,

improving product quality or adding new capabilities without making a major investment.

Bandera After-Sales Program includes:

guarantee on demand over 24 months;

on site personalized training for new applications and engineering services;

fast and appropriate technical service that takes care of mechanical, electronic and processing

issues;

4 service centres covering the global market around the clock and around the world field

service;

offers for effective spare parts packages and assistance in identifying and securing parts for

clients equipment;

servicing plants for extraordinary maintenance and maintenance programs;

revamping of existing equipment and complete lines to ensure optimal productivity and

product quality;

a dedicated plant for R&D, industrial tests and complete line wet trials in a detached room.

After-Sales Program

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06 | A GROUP OF PEOPLE WHO SHARE PASSION CAN ACHIEVE

Building on innovation, ensuring technical assistance on process issues as well as on problem

solving and exceeding the customers expectations is the reason why you can rely on Bandera.

Bandera lines are recognized for their:

MAXIMUM LINE PROCESS VERSATILITY

universally designed twin screw and single screw extruders based on cutting edge technology;

head melt channels designed with rheological data from the latest materials;

easy combination and interface with ancillary equipment.

LONG-LASTING RELIABILITY

inhouse construction sturdiness;

long-lasting references on the market;

selection of certified sub-suppliers.

GUARANTEED TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE

prompt support and emergency intervention with problem solving and process issues;

enlarged team of experienced testing technicians;

on-call spare part availability, made-to-order mechanical components included.

POWER SAVING

fitting of the most innovative motors and AC drives;

maximized die yield with excellent power/output ratio.

COMPETITIVE INVESTMENT VALUE

manufacturing and assembly process rationalization;

strong purchasing power from specialized sub-suppliers;

low engineering costs due to high industrialization level and process reliability.

TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION

an ongoing R&D process which has involved a 5.5 million Euro total investment over the most

recent five years and will amount to a value equal to 3.5% turnover between 2013 and 2017.

the most challenging goals!

Dedicated r&D plant

06.1 | COMMITTED TO LONG-TERM SUCCESS AND STABILITY

An attentive investment strategy for the construction of a dedicated R&D plant for industrial tests

aimed at:

expanding the business portfolio and market leadership;

focusing on customer global satisfaction, maximizing quality and production efficiency;

fostering long-term business relationships with the ultimate goal to generate value for

customers;

practicing an ethic of responsibility and transparency towards stakeholders.Railw

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NEW2.600 m2

EXISTING13.000 m2

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Costruzioni Meccaniche Luigi Bandera S.p.A.Corso Sempione, 120 - 21052 Busto Arsizio (VA) ItalyT +39 0331 398111 - F +39 0331 [email protected] - luigibandera.com

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