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Multipack Juices It Up

(Metallizing)

March 31, 2010, ... methacrylate liquid to the film surface, followed immediately by electron beam curing. Coating can occur before or after metallizing. Dramatically improved economics result from eliminating separate metallizing ...

AIMCAL Awards

(Coating/Laminating)

March 21, 2010, ... and metallizing to occur in the same pass at standard metallizing speeds. A gravure coating station applies an acrylate and/or methacrylate liquid to the film surface, followed immediately by electron ...

Flex-Pack = Opportunity

(Extrusion Coating)

January 31, 2010, ... the medium to long term (see Figure 1). There are a number of reasons for this. Currently behind the food service, liquid packaging, and rigid packaging sectors, flexible packaging nevertheless is experiencing ...

South American Flex-Pack Converter Installs BST Defect Detection

(News | New Products)

January 13, 2010, ... time to test the effectiveness of defect detection,  to quantify the impact, and determine its return on investment. As a converter of flexible packages for solid and liquid food and agricultural products, ...

2010 Year of Recovery

(Trends/Management)

December 31, 2009, ... Increased levels of corporate liquidity and access to the debt markets An improving economy (Mesirow's chief economist is calling for a 3.1% increase in GDP in 2010.) Continue on Next Page For ...

Paper or Plastic?

(Archive)

November 30, 2009, ... consolidation, acquisitions, and liquidations continued over the past few years, resulting in fewer coaters — each with a larger share of the release liner business. For the first three quarters of 2008, ...

Films 101: Back to Basics

(Archive)

November 30, 2009, ... to make the resin and additives mixture into a liquid for processing. This mixture, or organosol, is metered onto a casting sheet and sent through a series of ovens in a long drying process in which the ...

WHAT'S NEW PRODUCTS: Carton & Bo

(Carton Box Main)

September 30, 2009, ... Electric Capital Corp., which, it is said, provides more than adequate liquidity to meet working capital needs. Heidelberg, Kennesaw, GA, reports Bell Inc., Sioux Falls,SD, is the first US company ...

Disposing of Disposables

(First Glance)

August 31, 2009, ... the 2Tap cardboard spout as an affordable, environmentally friendly replacement for plastic funnels to end the problem of spilling liquids when pouring them. The folded spout is either glued to the side ...

Eco Fiction

(Substrates)

August 31, 2009, In industry, some of us are getting frustrated by the lofty pronouncements by marketers promoting their products In industry, some of us are getting frustrated by the lofty pronouncements by marketers ...

Functional, Barrier Coatings Global Growth is 2.7%

(News Eclips)

August 10, 2009, ... package for its contents. Although over one third of this market lies in liquid packaging, the market is much broader in scope and application, according to Pira, covering packaging for a wide range of ...

New Adhesive Achieves Cure, Regulatory Compliance in 3 Days

(Archive)

June 08, 2009, ... aromatic amines, is 2 ppb. Another method uses HPLC/UV coupling to measure the amines directly. Via high pressure liquid chromatography, the isomers of the primary aromatic amines are separated from ...

WHAT'S NEW PRODUCTS: June 200

(New Products)

May 31, 2009, ... www.freeproductinfo.net/pff Coater for Liquid Laminations The VersaCoater XL 60 with new roll-to-roll option can perform liquid lamination at 300 sq fpm at fewer than 4 cents/sq ft, company says. This ...

People News - June 2009

(News Clips Archive)

May 31, 2009, ... Richmond, VA, in the newly created role of technical sales specialist for the Liquid Coating Div. GPA, Chicago, IL, welcomes back Kevin Cooper as a territory sales manager for southern Virginia, ...

Growth Strategy

(Flexpack Main)

May 31, 2009, ... achievement award” for its “Smart Pack” system, the first “pouch within a pouch” liquid yeast package for beer and wine making (see PFFC March 2007 p52). To activate the yeast, the inner packet containing ...

NEW PRODUCT DIGEST - May 2009

(New Products)

April 30, 2009, ... by independent liquid conveying systems. One pump supplies the so-called barrier chamber with coating liquid, avoiding any air entrainment and providing an extraordinary brilliant coating transparency. ...

Enercon Industries Partners to Advance Nonwoven Technology

(News | New Products)

April 12, 2009, ... fabrics, such as liquid-repellant fabrics and breathable protective fabrics. Plasma technology is a surface modification treatment technique using gasses for the nonwoven and technical textile industry ...

MEGTEC Systems Purchases Ross Air Systems' Intellectual Property

(News | New Products)

March 26, 2009, ... in May 28, 2008, and the case was later converted to a Chapter 7 liquidation filing on December 15, 2008. The company's assets were then scheduled for auction based on a December 31, 2008, ruling from the ...

Celplast Metallized Products, Davis-Standard Host One-Day Course

(News | New Products)

March 25, 2009, ... Converting Systems is comprised of Black Clawson Converting Machinery, Egan and Er-We-Pa, which design and manufacture equipment to serve the extrusion coating and laminating, cast film, liquid coating, ...

Credit Chaos

(Trends/Management)

December 31, 2008, ... began in the subprime lending marketplace escalated into a full-blown credit freeze. Governments across the globe were forced to inject massive amounts of liquidity and capital into the banking system ...