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MIC: Proof is in the Plastic for Chattanooga Company

547 views · Published 28 January 2013 · 2:18 · Indexed 24 October 2026

Channel: WTVC NewsChannel 9 · 2013 · News & Politics

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By: Latricia Thomas   For a Chattanooga business, the proof is in the plastic.Hamilton Plastics specializes in using co-extrusion to make plastic films for all type of industries, including a material that's used in the installation of several types of popular flooring.The Hamilton Plastics process actually starts, not through the front door of the growing plant off of Amnicola Highway, but in the back. Fifty million pounds of poly ethelyne pellets a year are brought in by train and then through these tubes by vaccum to the massive machines inside.We take the pellet convert it solid into liquid at 450 degrees, 6000 psi pressure, plant manager Tom Barringer says. We are actually blowing that plastic in the air, 40 degree air to cool 450 degree plastic back into solid.On the ground level, the newly formed plastic film is in a tube shape which is carried several stories high. We need this additional distance of about 50 feet to allow that plastic to come back to room temperature, Barringer says.On it's way up, machines smooth out bubbles and keep the plastic tight. It's really maintaining constant tension, that's really the secret, Barringer says. It's important to maintain constant tension.After several twists and turns, the plastic is cool enough to roll and then test in Hamilton Plastic's own lab. It's ready to coat the foam that's underneath your carpet or laminate flooring. All from a Chattanooga factory, that's the vision of owner and founder Harshad Shah. Chattanooga has been a great place to be, Shah says. Chattanooga has been good to us and we're glad we moved to Chattanooga back in 1983.To learn more about Hamilton Plastics, click here to visit their website.

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