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 Engineering Inc. in Cincinnati is a new builder of machine-direction orienters. It was started in June by Eric Hatfield, a former owner of FlexTech Packaging Inc. in Cincinnati, a custom extruder of MDO films. His new firm will develop custom MDO equipment on three levels. The commodity, low-end model for trash-bag film will have five or six variable-speed rollers See Ground sea  and will be designed for minimum cost by being dedicated to a particular product with little flexibility. A mid-level MDO model with eight rollers will compete with other commercial MDO units. A high-end model of a type "which no one builds now," Hatfield says, will be based on the custom, automated au·to·mate  
v. au·to·mat·ed, au·to·mat·ing, au·to·mates

v.tr.
1. To convert to automatic operation: automate a factory.

2.
 unit that was built for Flextech with pushbutton push·but·ton  
n. also push button
A small button that activates an electric circuit when pushed.

adj. also push-but·ton
Equipped with or operated by a pushbutton.
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Title Annotation:KEEPING UP WITH Extrusion
Publication:Plastics Technology
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Sep 1, 2005
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