• Covertech

We offer products to meet your processing needs in every aspect of meeting stringent government codes, industry testing, or environmental requirements.

• Do you need an entire system solution (example: low VOC - or low emitting film, documented levels of heavy metals, or specialty plasticizer systems). We can assess your material and performance needs and also incorporate your process equipment into our compound material recommendations to find the right fit.
• Do you need O'Sullivan Films to provide an individual component of your product? We can assess, with you, the necessities of the product to find the right fit with your process and the other component parts. Material compatibility is an issue we address in our co-developmental efforts, and our planning predicts and prevents problems. We understand the importance of product compatibility, and understand that you are looking for the best performance of your overall system, not just our piece of ply. If our role is to provide a part of the system, we will work with you to ensure the entire system works as planned.

The compounds we use are custom fit for the application.

• Customers are not limited with "one size fits all" solutions like some suppliers of film
• Your success is predicated on maximizing your process, not ours
• The most important aspect of our success is in supplying you with a film that outperforms your competition

Plasticizer is an integral part of the end product using vinyl film. Of 500 + known plasticizers, some 50 to 100 are in commercial use, about 85% of them in PVC. Vinyl materials use plasticizers to increase the flexibility of the end product.

Phthalate esters are the most common plasticizers. They are colorless, odorless liquids produced by the chemical reaction between an alcohol and phthalic anhydride. There are three isomeric forms of these benzenedicarboxylic acid esters. These are ortho-phthalates, meta-phthalates (or isophthalates) and para-phthalates (or terephthalates). Note that the current environmental and health issues being attributed to plasticizers involve only the ortho-phthalate types. The meta- and para- isomers share the phthalate name with the ortho- variety, but they are quite different chemically.

Other classes of plasticizer available that can properly be called "non-phthalate" include adipates, citrate esters, trimellitates, aliphatic dibasic esters, phosphates, benzoates, polymerics, sulfonic acid, chloroparaffins and sorbitol. These alternatives do not necessarily fit the broad applications for which phthalates are suitable, and they are generally more costly than aforementioned phthalates.

Additionally, Section 101 requirements impose limits on lead content via a three-year reduction plan. O'Sullivan Films has developed compliant products (films) that currently meet 2011 requirements.

Our Great Products Stem From Superb Service

Designing high performance film is just the beginning of O'Sullivan's commitment to innovation. We also developed specialty packaging for our customers' roll-fed equipment to enable us to ensure material control and reduce opportunities for contamination. Additionally, packaging systems are designed to maximize efficiency and overall cost savings. For specific customer manufacturing processes, O'Sullivan packages vinyl to different roll diameters and slits to the customer's precise widths. This service eliminates costly advanced preparation.

Product and Processes

O'Sullivan high quality products and ability to customize compounds has made it a leading manufacturer of film for demanding applications. With our customers' design criteria in-hand we develop products that meet stringent regulatory and environmental requirements. Examples of our films adherence to rigid specifications include; floorscore, greengaurd, extensive military specifications, and recent legislation requiring phthalate compliance for juvenile applications.

We understand what quality means to you, and we design that quality into the vinyl that makes your project successful, and completes a job for your customer. Whether it's resistance to cold temperatures (cold-crack), a look, a feel, smell, or special care in meeting environmental considerations, we listen, and we guarantee our products will meet the needs we identify together.

All of our products are produced domestically. This allows us to be in front of you as manufacturers, chemists, and process support professionals.... listening to you to design what you need. We offer products to meet your processing needs in every aspect of meeting stringent government codes, industry testing, or environmental requirements. Do you need an entire system solution (example: low VOC - or low emmittign film, documented levels of heavy metals, or specialty plasticizer systems). We can assess your material and performance needs and also incorporate your process equipment into our compound material recommendations to find the right fit. Do you need O'Sullivan to provide an individual component of your product? We can do that as well. And, we can assess, with you, the necessities of the product to find the right fit with your process and the other component parts. Material compatability is an issue we address in our co-developmentt efforts. Our planning predicts and prevents problems. We understand the importance of product compatibility. We know you are looking for the best performance of your overall system, not just our piece of ply. If our role is to provide a part of the system, we can work with you to ensure the entire system works as planned.