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Use IR Light To Measure Thickness

(New Products)

October 31, 2009, ... interferometry design that uses IR light to measure total, individual, or multilayer thicknesses for a wide variety of films and coated materials. With noncontact measurement, sensors have piezo-electric, ...

Bloomer Plastics Converts Custom Films

(Substrates)

February 28, 2009, Manufacturer of custom converted and embossed films that converters, Bloomer Plastics supplies more than 32 million lb of film to customers as far away as Europe and Asia Bloomer, WI — population 3,500 ...

Web Exclusive: Slitting Film

(Archive)

November 11, 2008, Despite the fact that crude oil prices have risen sharply, in turn elevating the price of oil-based raw materials used in plastic film manufacture, this group of materials still has largely untapped packaging ...

Film Line Comes in Early

(Substrates)

October 31, 2008, Hoogstraten, Belgium | Davis-Standard has completed the installation of a 65-ft agricultural film line for Hyplast NV. Says Paul Leenders of Hyplast, Hoogstraten, Belgium | Davis-Standard has completed ...

Getting Better Blown Film

(News | New Products)

October 15, 2008, Danafilms, a manufacturer of custom PE films, recently upgraded its Westborough plant with another high precision Battenfeld Gloucester blown film line that will add more than 5 million lbs of additional ...

Film Converting: Luminit Films Shape Light

(Substrates)

September 30, 2008, Stanley Kao, business development manager for Luminit LLC, says the proprietary process used to create its Light Shaping Diffusers (LSD) is a film-to-film, Stanley Kao, business development manager for ...

Newly Topcoated Cothene Film Offers Superior Performance

(News | New Products)

August 19, 2008, LSH Materials, a div. of Hutchison Miller Sales Inc., has introduced a new topcoated version of its Cothene mono-layered polyolefin film that offers an alternative to vinyl and other films in the health ...

Interactive CDs from Bayer Films

(Archive)

November 20, 2006, Bayer Films Americas has released two new interactive CDs featuring its offering of Makrofol and Bayfol polycarbonate blend film products. PRESS RELEASE BERLIN, CT— Bayer Films Americas has released ...

Films Face Off

(Magazine)

June 29, 2006, What factors should you consider when choosing packaging films? Learn how OPET, OPP, and OPA compare in terms of downgauging, barrier, and density. Packaging Films When selecting a packaging film, converters ...

From Foil to Film

(Magazine)

April 29, 2006, Fleksotisk Logar has purchased a six-color GIDUE F-Combat film press, the first sold in Slovenia. The 280-mm-wide flexographic press is equipped with six UV lampheads with integral chill rollers for heat ...

Applied Films Receives Innovation Award

(Archive)

March 13, 2006, ICE (Intl. Converting Exhibition) honored Applied Films with its 2005 Innovation Award for Applied Films' Fabry Perot Filter, which produces color shift layers on plastic film by using electron-beam evaporation. ...

Who Likes Film?

(Magazine)

December 30, 2004, Customers like films because they are cool. Films can be clear, thin, shiny, clean, and elastic. Product designers like films because they are functional. Films can improve a product’s break strength, ...

A Universal Film for Flex-Pack?

(Flexpack)

December 30, 2004, Let us take the concept of universality one step further. Is there a universal film for flexible packaging? All converters and package designers know the answer to this question is a resounding no. PLC ...

Analysis of Film Extrusion Problems with Flow Simulation

(Magazine)

September 29, 2004, Application: Computer simulation can explain certain flow behavior and phenomena that can occur during film extrusion. This understanding can correct a problem and improve product quality. Email the author(s) ...

Binary Blends of EVA and Metallocene Catalyzed Ethylene-a-Olefin Copolymers & Their Film Properties

(Magazine)

June 29, 2004, ...  Blown film extrusion often uses polymer blends to provide improved processability and properties. . Ethylene-vinyl-acetate (EVA) has great importance to the blown film industry since it provides a good ...

Less (Thinner) Film, More Uses

(Magazine)

May 31, 2004, How thin is thin? Well, it depends who you talk to. Actually, if what you're talking about is film, it depends on the process and the application. Eric How thin is thin? Well, it depends who you talk to. ...

Film Wettability Not So Simple

(Magazine)

March 31, 2004, When it comes to the subject of everyone has some degree of experience. However, the wetting of a film by a printing ink is a complicated physical/chemical When it comes to the subject of “wetting,” everyone ...

Cast Film Lines for Barrier Films

(The Place)

October 31, 2003, Application: Besides the blown film process, cast film technology is the most significant production method for manufacture of barrier films ranging from 20 to 300 microns. The number of layers, the selection ...

Producing Coextruded High Barrier Heat-Shrinkable Packaging Films

(The Place)

September 30, 2003, Application: Examining and comparing high barrier polymers and structures provides guidelines for matching film performance with application. PEER-REVIEWED TECHNICAL PAPER: Following is an expanded summary ...

Brckner Enters Growing Russian Film Market with Novatek Install

(News | New Products)

September 09, 2003, Brückner reports it has decided to enter the Russian BO (biaxially oriented) film market, adding it is the "very first" to do so. According to the co., it has contracted with Moscow-based OAO Novatek for ...