Polymer Packaging returning to extrusion production with $10 million investment

Polymer Packaging Inc. is jumping back into the extrusion business after more than a decade of absence.

The Massillon-based flexible and protective packaging maker initially is spending more than $10 million on equipment and expects to start film production soon on a pair of three- layer, coextrusion lines made by Windmöller & Hölscher, the company said.

“Our team was discussing growth strategies in the spring of 2018. We decided to take an approach of asking our customers where they felt there were needs that we might be able to fill,” CEO Larry Lanham said in an email interview.

And one customer asked whether the company would consider manufacturing film.