Tuesday 2 June 2015

Types of Aluminium Foils

Aluminium foil (from 5 to 240 micron thick), flexible packaging, alloy straps and foil for domestic/international use.

General consumers are food, pharmaceutical, construction, tobacco, perfume and cosmetics industries.


Plain foil/Bare Alumiium foils
(hard and soft foil for food packaging, for production of foil based packaging materials, for technical and construction applications)
Naked foils/ Bare foils. This are the foils without any process, laminations and coating.


Aluminium strip foil
These are special foils with general lamination of LDPE of 150 gauge or 35-37 micron on the aluminium foils. Used for aluminium table packing as strips both side with printing
Std Foil Gauge Options
Tolerance ( +/-8% )
Min. Bursting Strength
0.025 mm
+/- 0.002 mm
1.5 kg/sq. cm
0.030 mm
+/- 0.0024 mm
1.9 kg/sq. cm
0.040 mm
+/- 0.0032 mm
2.5 kg/sq. cm


Blister Coated Foils/HSL foils.
Aluminum foil with heat sealed coating for dairy products and consumer packaging.

STANDARD FOIL GAUGE OPTIONS
TOLERANCE ( +/-8% )
0.020 mm
+/- 0.0016mm
0.025 mm
+/- 0.002 mm
0.030 mm
+/- 0.0024 mm


Light Gauge Aluminium foils
Generally, LG foils starting from 5micron - 18mic. (0.0005-0.0018)
Used in  wraping, flexible packing, paper foils lamination , multilayer foils
light gauge converter foil with the following general specification. The final product specifications made as per agreed contract with the customers.

FOIL THICKNESS (MM)
AVERAGE PINHOLES (PER SQ. M)
MAXIMUM
0.007
400
700
0.008
200
500
0.009
<100
200
0.012
<50
150

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