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- Metallized & Vacuum Coated Products Are Credited for Excellence in the AIMCAL Competition
- (News | New Products)
- March 24, 2009, ... incorporates Quilt Wave lamination and a metallized susceptor grid. The heat-sealable 48-ga polyethylene terephthalate (PET)/ink/pattern adhesive/25# paper/adhesive/pattern susceptor/heat-sealable 48-ga ...
- Pregis Forms Fabricator Council
- (News | New Products)
- March 17, 2009, ... sold through the fabricator channel include PolyPlank Renew (recycled content foam plank), PolyPlank LAM (layers of extruded polyethylene laminated together) and PolyPlank EXT (single cross section, extruded ...
- Plastic Film Study
- (Substrates)
- February 28, 2009, ... Polyethylene 8,465 9,105 10,510 1.5 2.9 High-Density Polyethylene 2,013 1,921 2,057 -0.9 1.4 Polypropylene 1,276 1,230 1,455 -0.7 3.4 PVC, Degradable & Other 1,986 1,914 2,108 ...
- Flexible Packaging Association 2009 Award Winners
- (Flexpack Main)
- February 28, 2009, ... Co. Inc., Polyethylene Packaging Div., Terre Haute, IN, is honored for its Advance Pak Laminated Rack Header Bag with Hanger Hole. Manufactured using less material, it minimizes landfill waste and reduces ...
- Bloomer Plastics Converts Custom Films
- (Substrates)
- February 28, 2009, ... production capabilities include mono and coextruded cast films; polyolefins and their copolymers, including polyethylene (PE), polypropylene (PP), nylon, ethylene-methyl acrylate copolymer, ethylene viny ...
- Green Is Global
- (Archive)
- January 31, 2009, ... adhesive wet-out characteristics. We are seeing caliper reductions down to about 23 microns for polyethylene terephthalate (PET) liners. Liner recycling now is gaining impetus as awareness is growing ...
- Meeting the Sustainability Challenge Without Compromising Barrier Performance
- (Archive)
- January 28, 2009, ... independent of the base film gauge. This is proven in Figure 4, which shows oxygen transmission rate (OTR) and water vapor transmission rate [WVTR] values of three different polyethylene terephthalate ...
- Broaden Print Client Base with More Materials
- (News Eclips)
- January 07, 2009, KBA North America’s Genius 52 UV press allows customers to broaden their client base by printing on a variety of paper, board, plastics (including lenticular surfaces), PVC, styrene, polyethylene, static-cling, ...
- Reduce & Reuse
- (Extrusion Coating)
- November 30, 2008, ... global competitors is small, and the market structure will not change significantly in the immediate future. North America leads in supply of gable-top cartons and polyethylene(PE)-coated boards for ...
- Web Exclusive: Slitting Film
- (Archive)
- November 11, 2008, ... account the extensible nature of many of the materials in question. To run plastic (flexible) materials such as polyethylene and polypropylene at commercially acceptable speeds and to high quality, ...
- Door to Door QC
- (Coating/Laminating)
- September 30, 2008, ... coatings, and reactivated low- and high-temperature heat/solvent. Substrates range from polyester, polyethylene, and polyvinyl chloride (PVC) films, to foils, textiles, and other exotic materials. “It' ...
- Adding Capacity
- (Flexography)
- September 30, 2008, ... polypropylene (PP), polyester (PET), saran-coated PET, metallized PP, polyethylene, and coated paper. Slitting is accomplished on a 60-in. Ashe slitter, and 13 bagmaking machines from Hudson-Sharp and ...
- Film Converting: Luminit Films Shape Light
- (Substrates)
- September 30, 2008, ... Those diffusers adhere to a variety of polyethylene and polycarbonate films up to 20 in. wide in thicknesses from 0.005-0.125 in. The converting equipment uses high-precision rubber rollers from Abba ...
- UV/EB Inks Are Suitable for Laminated Structures
- (Inks/Coatings/Primers)
- September 30, 2008, ... Starting at the bottom of Figure 1, the substrate — usually polyethylene terephthalate (PET), oriented polypropylene, polyethylene, or a metallized film — acts as a surface to accept the printing. It ...
- US Plastic Film Demand to Exceed 16 Billion Pounds
- (News Eclips)
- August 12, 2008, ... as well as opportunities in film products such as pouches and modified atmosphere packaging (MAP). The leading film will remain low-density polyethylene (LDPE), accounting for almost two-thirds of the ...
- P-S Tape Protects Calendering & Extruding Rollers
- (News Eclips)
- July 22, 2008, ... it a cost-efficient option for coating rollers in the extrusion coating industry and other roller applications.” It is now being used to wrap rollers that produce polyethylene coatings and laminations, ...
- Dyne Levels Part 2
- (Process Management)
- June 30, 2008, ... coating. A primer is chosen that will provide a high surface energy for good adhesion to the film. Some primers bond chemically to the substrate. An example would be polyethyleneimine, which is a cationic ...
- Exopack Sells Newmarket Film Business
- (News Eclips)
- June 23, 2008, ... in Newmarket, ON, Canada. For more than 50 years, Newmarket has been supplying high quality single and multi-layer polyethylene films to customers involved in package converting operations, form-fill-seal ...
- PE Hot Melt Adhesive Is Easy to Run
- (News Eclips)
- May 29, 2008, ... The premium case and carton polyethylene hot melt adhesives are said to be fast setting, to offer excellent paper and paperboard substrate adhesion, and to have exceptional heat-resistance machining and ...
- Emerging Nations
- (Flexpack)
- April 30, 2008, ... (PP)/ethylene vinyl alcohol (EVOH)/polyethylene (PE) and others use PP/EVOH/PE. In the UK, polyvinyl chloride (PVC) is being used. Although there are still a large volume of multilayer films used, there ...
