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DuPont Awards | Salsa Container Blends Rigid and Flexible To Earn 2015 Highest Honor

(Flexpack)

May 26, 2015, IPL’s SkinnyPack uses 54.8% less plastic than the original salsa containers IPL’s SkinnyPack uses 54.8% less plastic than the original salsa containers. The 2015 DuPont Awards for Packaging Innovation ...

Spring 2015 Travels: Nordmeccanica (Long Island), Malaysia (Part 3)

(Tom’s Poly Ploys)

May 04, 2015, ... What I can say though is that it is very, very rare for a plastics production facility in Malaysia to have even one engineer on location.  This is an unthinkable situation in the USA and Europe. The ...

AIMCAL and SPE to Present Fall Conference

(News | New Products)

April 13, 2015, ... the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE), Bethel, CT, will collaborate on a fall technical conference in October 2015. The joint event combines AIMCAL’s Web Coating & Handling Conference (WCHC) with SPE’s ...

Barrier Resins | Properties, Processing & Handling of EVOH, Pt. 2

(Flexpack)

March 23, 2015, ... Barrier Film Applications, (Macro Barrier Technology Seminar at the International Trade Fair for Rubber and Plastics, Dusseldorf, Germany 2013) G. Medlock, Nanolayer Film Structures with Ethylene Vinyl ...

Flexible Packaging | Coveris, Cryovac Big Winners at FPA Awards

(Flexpack)

March 03, 2015, ... and product spoilage as a result of flex cracking.   Gourmet Express Complete Meals Award: Silver—Sustainability Award: Silver—Printing and Shelf Impact Manufacturer: Berry Plastics Corp. The ...

Show Preview | NPE2015 Boasts Its Largest Event Ever

(Trends/Management)

February 16, 2015, At well over 1 million sq ft and growing, the triennial plastics showcase will have operating equipment at 400+ booths At well over 1 million sq ft and growing, the triennial plastics showcase will ...

Show Preview | ICE USA 2015 Returns to Orlando with Added Features

(Trends/Management)

January 05, 2015, ... on the flexible packaging market, based on Blaige & Company’s comprehensive Twelve Year Plastics and Packaging Merger & Acquisition Consolidation Study. With consolidation activity showing strong momentum ...

Readers Choice | Top 10 New Products of 2014

(Flexpack)

December 29, 2014, ... data from BCM into g/m2, determine wet and dry thickness of coatings, and more. CONTACT COMPANY    Toray’s Torayfan PC5 Metallized BOPP Toray Plastics (America), North Kingstown, RI, introduced ...

BOBST to Display Line at Plastindia 2015

(News | New Products)

December 21, 2014, The Indian plastics show will feature a wide range of BOBST equipment, including presses, coaters, laminators, and metallizers   BIELEFELD, GERMANY | BOBST reports it will participate in Plastindia ...

Heritage Bag Grows with Support from Gloucester Engineering

(Bag Pouch)

November 17, 2014, ... produced natural gas liquids, which should create an advantage in the long term for the US plastics industry. “If the US resin production cost advantage continues as expected and new resin production capacity ...

Ceresana LDPE Study Offers Global Details

(Materials)

November 04, 2014, With global sales expected to rise by 1.5% p.a. until 2021, LDPE is seeing particularly strong growth in Asia and the Middle East   KONSTANZ, GERMANY | Ceresana, an international market research ...

AIMCAL Fall Technical Conference Packs 'Em I

(Yo's Yarns)

October 27, 2014, ... Marriott Grande Dunes Hotel, also included a fourth track of sessions co-located and sponsored by Society of Plastics Engineers' (SPE) flexible packaging interests; the other three tracks were dedicated ...

Show Preview | Labelexpo Americas 2014 Enhances Focus on Package Printing

(Label/Tape)

August 04, 2014, ... by exchanging lightweight sleeves and carbon-fiber cylinders instead of entire printing inserts.     Multi-Plastics To Celebrate 35th Anniversary Multi-Plastics (Booth 1312) will celebrate its ...

AIMCAL and SPE Come Together for Tech Conference

(Coating/Laminating)

April 20, 2014, ... Coaters and Laminators (AIMCAL) and the Society of Plastics Engineers have agreed to bring AIMCAL’s Web Coating & Handling Conference USA together with SPE’s FlexPackCon technical program to make what ...

Z-Flute Boxes for Kitty Litter are Purr-fect

(Coating/Laminating)

March 08, 2014, ... paper-based substrates in West Monroe, LA. Toray Plastics (America), North Kingstown, RI, supplied the polyethylene terephthalate (PET) film. The two smaller metallized Composipac Z-Flute cartons consist ...

Parkinson Technologies Expansion Ahead of Schedule

(News | New Products)

January 26, 2014, ... web handling, winding, and plastics processing equipment, reports its facility expansion will be completed ahead of schedule. The expansion, which was initiated to accommodate continued growth, will double ...

Nordson Introduces Polymer Processing Systems Group

(Flexpack News)

October 28, 2013, ... dispensing, and giving shape to plastics. As the result of a series of strategic acquisitions, company now manufactures precision melt stream components starting with the screws and barrels for extrusion ...

On Print | Impact of 3-D Printing on the Converting Industry

(On Print)

September 26, 2013, ... plastics can be used in one item to obtain color or tactile effects. The resolution is quite good as the printheads are typically 300–600 dpi, while layers for different printers range from 0.3–4 mil ...

LAB/PILOT/TECHNICAL FACILITIES DIRECTORY

(Uncategorized)

August 31, 2013, ... foods, health/beauty, industrial, meat/poultry, medical/pharmaceutical, photographic/graphic arts, sanitary/disposables, snacks PR | digital, thermal inkjet SU | film, foil, paper, paperboard, plastics ...

LAB/PILOT/TECHNICAL FACILITIES DIRECTORY

(Uncategorized)

August 31, 2013, ... plastics NOTES | Offers customers access to inkjet sample lab and technical staff to identify best process/ink for specific applications. Dow Chemical Co. 1254 Enclave Pkwy., Houston, TX 77077  ...