Automatic Thickness Control System for Extrusion Coating Line from SHIM
The SmartFlipper T-Die from SHIM (Sumitomo Heavy Industries Modern), represented by TEXMAC, is an automatic thickness control system that features a T-die equipped with a pneumatic lip forming mechanism to greatly enhance dimensional accuracy and stability, and productivity.

• Feedback control via thickness measurement
• Instant response to correction commands
• Faithful reproduction of preset parameters



SmartFlipper T-Die
The T-die incorporates a pneumatic lip forming mechanism that instantly responds to film thickness signals and automatically corrects thickness.



About SHIM
SHIM (Sumitomo Heavy Industries Modern) is a specialized manufacturer of extrusion molding machines. The company was established in 1955 at the dawn of plastics engineering. Over the ensuing 50 years, SHIM has been delivering production machinery and systems loaded with state-of-the-art technologies to users around the world. From packaging materials for the ordinary food products, daily essentials and advanced medical supplies to functional thin films indispensable to information technologies and environmental technologies, the products made on the extrusion systems of SHIM are being used in all corners of society.