Toronto area home to new extrusion technology firms

A concentration of the right engineering talent has spawned two film extrusion technology companies in the Toronto area.

Cyber Plastics Machinery Inc. has started up in Brampton, Ontario, to upgrade and retrofit blown film systems. The company is headed by Dawn Krycki-De Santis, daughter of Robert Krycki, the founder of Future Design Inc., a business that was bought by Gloucester Engineering Co. Inc. in 2012.

Meanwhile, former Macro Engineering & Technology Inc. employees have established Tronoplast Technologies Inc., a firm that will be based in the Brampton-Mississauga area when the principals close on deal to lease space.

Blown film focus at Cyber

Krycki-De Santis gained film equipment experience working in sales, marketing and administration in the 15 years she worked alongside her father at Future Design.

“We've started refurbishing blown film lines and are developing new air ring technology,” Krycki-De Santis said in a phone interview. “We're also starting research and development on new equipment.”

Krycki-De Santis leads Cyber as its director of sales and marketing. Her father, well-known film equipment developer Robert Krycki, is semi-retired but directs Cyber's research projects. Liviu Sas, former operations manager for Future Design, continues in that post with Cyber.

Krycki-De Santis felt she was too young to retire after Future Design was sold so she partnered with Sas to set up Cyber.

Future Design specialized in bubble control in blown film extrusion systems. Gloucester acquired Future Design patents and technologies and absorbed them into its extensive extrusion technologies in blown and cast film, sheet, foam extrusion, bag making and extrusion coating.

Krycki-De Santis said there are about 3,500 Saturn air rings installed globally. Many of those rings are in blown film systems with dies up to 100 inches, a niche specialty Future Design carved out for itself. But Cyber will work with any brand of equipment, Krycki stressed.

Tronoplast touts systems experience

Tronoplast touts its principals' experience in blown and cast films as key to its thrust in complete film systems.

Sales manager John Sproule said the company has landed equipment orders and is close to securing a head office site. The new company's gets technical direction from Felix Guberman, formerly head of technology at Macro Engineering & Technology Inc. of Mississauga, Ontario.

Tronoplast offers complete blown film systems, including setups for PVC cling films, biaxially oriented structures and shrink films.