A stretch film presenting controlled permeability to gases, manufactured
by process of balloon co-extrusion and consisting of outer layers (S2) of
stretchable polmeric material and by one or two inner barrier layers (S3)
of a EVOH based polymeric matrix, which is made stretchable by the
addition of a suitable plasticizer in such a percentage as to conciliate
the stretchablity with the desired barrier effect, said layers of
different material being reciprocally secured by means of layers (S4) of
adhesive material. The polymeric matrix which forms the barrier material
and the plasticizer are intimately mixed inside a double-screw corotating
extruder, immediately before the phase of co-extrusion, through a
premelting of the polymeric matrix and the subsequent injection of the
plasticizer in liquid phase.