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Toray Carbon Fiber Recycled from Boeing 787 Wing Production Process Applied in Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 12

(News | New Products)

December 14, 2023, ... product lifecycle impacts are further reduced. TORAYCA™ is an established aerospace material known for its high strength, stiffness, and lightweighting properties. These qualities have led to its adoption ...

ExxonMobil Introduces Novel HDPE Grade to Help Converters Create Mono-Material Machine Direction Oriented (MDO) Flexible Films

(News | New Products)

August 16, 2023, ... and Application Development Engineer, ExxonMobil.    ExxonMobil™ HD7165L can help enable converters to produce blown MDO-PE films with 60-70 percent HDPE for enhanced stiffness and high heat resistance**. ...

Profol Americas Recognized with Silver Award for Technical Innovation

(News | New Products)

April 11, 2023, ... cast polypropylene film, and its proprietary composition is a technical innovation that achieves a balance of stiffness and density. Profol’s formulation allows material separation in traditional water ...

Unwind and Rewind Guides: Design and Installation Considerations

(White Paper)

March 21, 2023, ...  Mechanical Structure Stiffness and Rigidity The main consideration for the mechanical structure relates to the structural rigidity of carriage that supports the roll. Poorly designed carriages can ...

The Role of Corona in Flexible Packaging Lamination Requires an Understanding of Filmic Substrates

(Surface Prep)

January 29, 2023, ... rigidity and strength for high-quality printing or stiffness for good barrier properties to keep aroma in, but water vapor, oxygen and light out. Ensuring that all these layers ‘stick’ together securely ...

Sustainability Beyond Recyclability

(Flexpack)

July 04, 2022, ... paper/poly/foil/poly structures offer good stiffness, barrier and filing on high-speed machines, but are challenging to make recyclable. Also, high residue products or products that require a barrier such ...

The Importance of Monomaterial Polypropylene Laminates in Flexible Packaging

(Bag Pouch)

June 26, 2022, ... advantageous for film production. For many primary packaging applications, the high stiffness and transparency of PP has advantages over PE, as PP offers the option to go thinner and to run more efficiently ...

Pros and Cons of In-line Slitting

(Equipment/Machines - Converting)

April 17, 2022, ... diameter) that your material can be wound on. Just by taking a single-center slit, the stiffness of the roll no longer contributes to the stiffness of the shaft. Off-line slitting and rewinding is still ...

Properly Select a Web Guide for Your Operation

(Equipment/Machines - Converting)

June 30, 2021, ... guiding after a long span is desired. These guides bend the web that enters the steering roller(s). The magnitude of steering depends on many factors including: web speed, web stiffness, guide installation ...

The Back Page: Taking it back 64 years

(The Back Page)

February 17, 2021, ... (or none) of heat seal coating and paper. Another factor the converter must consider is pliability vs stiffness. These qualities can have a definite effect on machine operation and will vary from machine ...

ExxonMobil Introduces New PaxonTM SP5504 HDPE, a Step-Change in Performance for Blow Molded Bottles and Containers

(News | New Products)

February 10, 2021, ... Stress Cracking Resistance) performance without compromising stiffness, impact, top load performance, or processability, PaxonTM SP5504 is reportedly ideal for household and industrial chemical (HIC) bottles ...

TOPAS Advanced Polymers’ Cyclic Olefin Copolymer (COC) Earns Certification as Recyclable Material in Europe

(News | New Products)

November 01, 2020, TOPAS Advanced Polymers announced that its TOPAS® cyclic olefin copolymer (COC) products have earned certification as recyclable materials by the European independent testing lab TOPAS Advanced Polymers ...

Innovia Films Launches Encore Sustainable BOPP Films

(Flexpack)

June 01, 2020, ... the use of fossil based virgin raw materials. The Encore packaging and labelling film range will have exactly the same properties as equivalent fossil based BOPP film - high clarity and gloss, high stiffness, ...

AIMCAL Announces Winners During Virtual Award Ceremony

(News | New Products)

April 16, 2020, ... because the nylon enhances the barrier properties and stiffness of the film, but is present at levels so low the material is recyclable in the PE stream. “Wipes are a rapidly growing market,” notes one ...

Multi-Solution Approach Key to Achieving Sustainability Goals

(Extrusion Coating)

February 24, 2020, ... 2006G to ensure protection of a high-quality printed surface offering very good stiffness and optics for packaging appearance. The resulting pouch enables extra functionalities like zippers and easy opening ...

Web Tension Control Fundamentals

(News | New Products)

January 24, 2019, ... components should be evaluated for mechanical stiffness including coupling, shafts, and especially core chucks and shafts. Poor wound roll quality (out of round rolls, blocked web, etc.) can be one of ...

Will it Process?

(Extrusion Coating)

December 11, 2018, ... resistance. When films are produced with the molecular orientation increased, physical properties such as tensile strength and stiffness increase but elongation is reduced. The physical, thermal and ...

Advancements of Bio-Derived and Bio-Degradable Technologies in the Flexible Packaging Market

(Flexpack)

November 25, 2018, ... of polyethylene and is designed to be recycled through existing How2Recycle store drop-offs. This technology offers benefits of low haze, good stiffness and high gloss. The film is currently available ...

ExxonMobil Announces Performance Polymer

(Flexpack)

May 06, 2018, ... of packaging materials,” says Alechia Crown, global performance polyethylene new product manager, ExxonMobil. “The processability of this new grade, combined with its toughness, stiffness, and sealing ...

Flexo Concepts Refines Doctor Blades

(News | New Products)

March 05, 2018, ...  Company says a modification to the MicroTip design doubles the tip’s stiffness at the contact point to further refine metering performance on high line screen anilox rolls. An improvement to the manufacturing ...