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How One Converter Mastered Sheet-Fed Films

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March 31, 2001, ... is still making history. Four years ago, the Rochester, NY-based company saw the opportunity to form a strategic alliance with The Films Business of ExxonMobil Chemical Co. to help create and convert ...

Cast Film Dies and Auxiliary Equipment

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February 28, 2001, Application: Quality of an extrudate in a cast film system depends on the entire die system because of the synergistic effect of the components. Email the author at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. More information about ...

The Effects o Comonomer Type on the Blown Film Performance of LLDPE Resins Made Using a Metallocene Single-Site Catalyst

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January 31, 2001, Application: Using 1-butene, 1-hexene, and 1-octene as a comonomer gives blown film performance that increases with increasing length of the a-olefin used. by Ashish M. Sukhadia, M. Bruce Welch, & Rajendra ...

Atmospheric Plasma: The New Functional Treatment for Films

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January 31, 2001, Application: Specialty films that require stringent surface morphology specifications, specific surface modification, precise surface coating, or tightly controlled electrical characteristics will benefit ...

Film Extrusion Committee News

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November 30, 2000, Audrey Myers of Black Clawson Converting Machinery, vice chairperson of the Film Extrusion Committee, reports that "the group is busy with four goals. We are working on the technical program for the next ...

Polyester Film Sourcing: Tips to Improve the Bottom Line

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November 30, 2000, Sourcing polyester film for the specific combination of properties you need in the finished product can put your mind at ease and raise profitability. Sourcing polyester film should not be an exercise ...

Polyester Film Supplier Helps Converter Grow

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September 30, 2000, Needing better service and more attention from its polyester supplier (along with good quality, of course), Custom Tapes turned to Filmquest and found its wish list fulfilled. Size does matter. At least ...

Bringing Together the Many Benefits of Film and Paper

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September 30, 2000, Harrier Packaging is targeting the food industry as it converts PaperFeel, a coex PE film that reportedly combines the best of paper and film. Flour and sugar, conventionally packed in block-bottom paper ...

Press Adds Flexibility of Film to Paper Operation

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June 30, 2000, ... central impression, flexographic press marks its first foray into converting film, and it offers the Saugerties, NY-based company its greatest potential for growth since it was founded in 1979 as a converter ...

It's Definitely a Bull Market for High-Performance Film

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May 31, 2000, ... can't go in the oven?" Well today, although you still can't put that plate in the oven, there are high-performance plastic films that can not only survive in the oven but also go straight from your freezer ...

Decorative Films Served by Multilayer Structure

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May 31, 2000, ... sq ft, is the growing popularity of Allied's proprietary ALUphane decorative film. The five-layer film, which Allied says has the same affinity for crinkle and deadfold as colored cellophane produced ...

Oxide-coated films are still finding their market niche

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November 30, 1996, With all the hype in recent years about transparent barrier films, one would think that applications could be found almost anywhere in the supermarket. With all the hype in recent years about transparent ...

In-mold labels: film is today's hot development

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June 30, 1996, ... protection. Today, such paper labels comprise approximately half the in-mold label market. Labels made with a plastic film form the other portion of the market. In-mold labels made from film offer better ...

MSC Specialty Films reaches success down to the core

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May 31, 1996, In order to provide customers with just what its name promises, MSC Specialty Films needed the right core supplier. Star Paper Tube's new StarTech Div. In order to provide customers with just what its name ...

Consider film cores when analyzing costs.

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July 31, 1995, Film cores are rarely considered key components in a total system cost analysis, but using the wrong ones may cost you more than you realize.As film markets Film cores are rarely considered key components ...

Film offers food packagers green marketing opportunity

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April 30, 1995, When ICI Films decided to develop the first polyester foodpackaging film using post-consumer recycled (PCR) content nearly a year ago, we did so believing When ICI Films decided to develop the first polyester ...

Vinyl film eliminates layer of polyethylene

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February 28, 1995, An Aclar-laminated rigid-vinyl film eliminating the middle layer of polyethylene is available for high-barrier pharmaceutical applications from Klockner An Aclar-laminated rigid-vinyl film eliminating ...

Packaging films edible, water soluble

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February 28, 1995, Completely edible water-soluble packaging films are available from Chris Craft Industrial Products, South Holland, IL.The Monosol LXP-1832 films are cold-water Completely edible water-soluble packaging ...

Films utilize capacity of cast polyethylene

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February 28, 1995, Laminated films designed for packaging of toner cartridges have been introduced by Web Technologies, Oakville, CT.Copy-Pat films are a custom-engineered Laminated films designed for packaging of toner ...

Metallizer, orienter to increase films capacity

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February 28, 1995, New equipment installations will boost the worldwide capacity of the Films Division of Mobil Chemical Co., Pittsford, NY, during 1995.The addition of New equipment installations will boost the worldwide ...