Bilcare Solutions - 50 years of competence in films

20-Sep-2012 - Germany

Bilcare Research GmbH founded September 18, 1962 under the name Myraplast Staufen GmbH, was one of the first manufacturers of rigid plastic films in Germany. Step by step the company advanced to become a global player.

With the first calender, 200 tons of films were produced in the founding year. In 1965 the companys name was changed to Kunststoffwerk Staufen GmbH, and 1969, after the acquisition of the calendering business of Pegulan in Bötzingen, to Vereinigte Kunststoffwerke GmbH. Together with the pharmaceutical industry blister packaging for tablets as well as PVDC-coating to improve water and oxygen barrier properties were developed. With the launch of the worldwide largest PVC-film calender
at that time in Staufen, the production of shrink film for tamper evident seals, bottle capsules and full body sleeves, as well as numerous process-engineering improvements, the company became a leading film manufacturer in Europe.

1988 the films specialist was incorporated into the European Vinyls Corporation (EVC) and 1997 a name change to EVC Rigid Film GmbH followed. 1998 a third German site in Weißandt-Gölzau could be acquired. In 2001 EVC was taken over by the British petrochemical group INEOS, consequently 2005 EVC Rigid Film GmbH became INEOS Films GmbH. The INEOS-time was marked above all, by the launch of a new stenter-line for the production of shrink-films in Staufen and the set-up of a new
manufacturing site in Delaware, USA, which was officially opened in 2007. 2010 the INEOS Films group was taken over by Bilcare. Ever since, the company operates in Germany as part of the Bilcare Solutions group under the name of Bilcare Research GmbH.

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