About Us
History
Who We Are
Southern Film Extruders, Inc. has been delivering creative solutions for the blown film industry since 1965. Established in High Point, NC, SFE was run by its initial investors for 20 years before they sold to Joe Martinez in 1986.
Following Mr. Martinez's acquisition of SFE, we doubled the capacity of our blown film plant in Fort Pierece, FL. Our Florida plant operated until 2005. We then built a new state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in High Point, NC, where we consolidated our operations. As of 2010, our annual capacity is 70 million pounds.
Who We Serve, What We Provide
Our primary customers include print and bag converters, and manufacturing and commercial accounts. Our products are used for bags, laminations, pouches, form and fill applications, bundle wrap, shrink wrap, sleeves, bulk liquid containers, dunnage bags, lawn and garden. We supply monolayer and coex polyethylene films for many different industries:
- Food: frozen, chicken, fish, cheese, biscuit mix, pet foods, military meals ready to eat (MRE's), pizza wrap, coffee, tobacco products packaging, bottle water case wrap, unlimited food applications.
- Medical: instrument bags, sponge bags, ice packs, water pillows, preemie baby beds, etc.
- Lawn & Garden: birdseed, mulch, grass seed etc.
- Commercial / Industrial: retail shopping bags, nuts and bolts bags, coin & cash bags, zip lock bags, duct tape, paper plates, newspaper bags, peel & seal.
- Textiles: Hosiery, t-shirt bags, carpet wrap, apparel.
Our Suppliers / Partners
We work hard to have our customers think of us as their partners. Similarly, we think of our resin suppliers as our partners. We maintain supply agreements with them to ensure a consistent supply of raw materials. We have primary and secondary suppliers/partners for all resins, colorants and additives. We maintain continual dialogues, projects, and trials with the Technical Departments of our resin partners to tell them what we hear in the market and share with our customers new developments from them. We frequently work with our resin partners to BETA test new resins.
