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For the past 50 years, Gloucester Engineering has built and serviced the most productive technology in the plastics industry. Read below to learn more about our legacy of innovation.
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1961 Gloucester Engineering founded by G. Wilbur Tracy, Ingvar Tornberg and Charles M. Schott • First winder and extruder
1963 First garment bag machine
1964 CRS Universal Bag Machine 41
1965 First High Speed 419 Garment Bag Machine
1966 Model 422 Bag Separator
1967 First single and dual turret automatic winders introduced
1968 Extro foam extrusion system • Polycool Air Ring cooling system • 423 Bag Separator • First (internal bubble cooling) system developed
1971 Extrusion Corporation founded (7/12/71) to make ion implant machine, located in Peabody, MA • Gloucester stock offered on the American Exchange
1972 First granulators developed • First sheet extrusion system • Model 425 Dual Head Bag Machine developed
1973 Gloenco Newport founded • Expanded machine shop at Sargent Street facility
1975 First 3-layer die
1978 Gloucester Engineering becomes part of Battenfeld Group
1981 BGE celebrates 20th anniversary
1982 Model 192 winder developed. 1985 Extrol development began
1986 Model 1010 high speed winder for stretch film • First Contracool Extruder • Extrol 6032 introduced
1987 First Traversanip • Model 1002 winder for high speed stretch film introduced
1989 First Contracool sheet extruder
1990 Touchscreen controls incorporated in winders
1991 Autoprofile systems developed • 1009S Phantom Axis Winder • First 7-Layer die built
1992 BGE celebrates 30th anniversary • 4180 Bag Machine developed • Model 700 Cast Film Unit
1993 900 Series Air Ring
1994 1020/1021 Surface Winders
1995 5-layer stretch film line installed • 1002DS (Dual Turret) Winder • Oscillating Autoprofile Air Ring• 5-layer concentric mandrel Blown film IBC die introduced • Gravimetric Blending System
1997 First 9-Layer die built • Optifilow LP™ (low profile) die • Extrol Anywhere remote access • Opticell™ Foam Die
1998 1022 Automatic Surface Winder • Servo indexing developed for stretch film winders
1999 1002CS (Center Support) Winder • 4.8 meter wide CPP line installed • 1033 Phantom Axis Winder
2000 Harold Wrede retired • Phil Murphee named fifth president • Horizontal Haul Off introduced
2003 BGE launches the Horizontal Haul Off or H-Nip and also a Softbox for CPP production
2004 BGE pioneers In-line MDO's for Blown Film pre-stretched hand wrap market
2005 BGE introduces redesigned 9-layer blown film die with installation on its industrial scale lab line • BGE introduces its first Servo Shuttle Bag Machine Model 4180
2006 BGE installs market's first 17 layer cast film line. Also introduces 'Flexelite' flexographic printing press
2007 Introduction of Encapsulated Feed Technology (EFT) for blown film dies and Light Grooved Feed (LGF) for extruders • Carl Johnson becomes president of BGE
2009 WOW Winder introduced at NPE2009 • Symphonix introduced at NPE2009
2011 Blue Wolf Capital becomes GEC’s new owner
2011 India's Kabra Extrusiontechnik Becomes New Stakeholder
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