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Battling the Biothreats

(News | New Products)

November 27, 2001, ... reports the company. Among the most common antimicrobial materials are organic acids and their salts, reports Colorcon. For example, Potassium sorbate is used frequently with polyethylene (PE) materials ...

Polymers / Laminations / Adhesives / Coatings / Extrusions

(Magazine)

October 31, 2001, ... polyethylene, polyvinylidene chloride, EVA, and newer offerings such as nylon MXD6, cyclic olefin copolymers, and liquid crystalline polymers. His paper also included a discussion on barrier testing and ...

Crosslinking Agents Can Improve Physical Properties

(Magazine)

September 30, 2001, ... the ring is strained and can react with carboxylic acid function groups found on the resin binders. Polyethylene amines: These chemicals contain amines on the backbone of PE that can react with carboxylic ...

Many New Players Join India's Flex-Pack Boo

(Magazine)

September 30, 2001, ... Toothpaste (a PET/holographic MET PET board lamination); special soap wrapper (paper sandwiched between heat-sealable plastic layers for high-speed machines); easy-tear, paper-like PET/polyethylene ...

Die-Hard Creativity Keeps Converter Growing and GROWING

(Office Products)

September 30, 2001, ... package; it's comprised of a polyethylene pouch with a pressure-sensitive back. These days, Jannel's “modified” two-shift (they overlap during the day) operation also is exercising its creativity in the ...

Web Guides Bring Positive Results to Negative Sleeves

(Magazine)

September 30, 2001, ... 25 hr a day, five days a week, the 50-mm dies produce high-density polyethylene from 7-18 in. in both clear and matte finishes. The blown film lines run at 100-150 fpm, and the film is corona treated in-line ...

Electron Beam Curing in Flexible Packaging

(Magazine)

August 31, 2001, ... substrate. An important substrate in flexible packaging is polyethylene. Although most people regard this as a simple polymer of ethylene, the actual material is a complex mixture of many other items added ...

DuPont Packaging Unveils Resin "Transcend" at TAPPI Conferenc

(News | New Products)

August 30, 2001, ... on foil (as compared to metallocene and polyethylene), reports DuPont. Typical applications for the new resin include towelettes and swabs, dry soup, powdered drink mix pouches, and gravy and flavor-mix ...

Single-Source Ink Supplier for Package Printer

(Magazine)

July 31, 2001, ... Hoelscher, and Kidder, are up to 50 in. wide and run up to eight colors. The converter converts polyethylene, polypropylene, PET, and metallized films from AET, Vifan, Altopro, Mobil, and DuPont. When ...

GAA AWARDS: Gravure Is Golden for GAA Award Winners

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June 30, 2001, ...  For the Latin American market, where detergents are packaged in polyethylene bags, Kroma USA, Blue Ash, OH, was able to maintain the brand-identity colors of Ace Detergent using fluorescent inks on film. ...

SUBSTRATES REPORT: From Resins to Finished Product - Oil, Gas, Resin, Film

(Magazine)

June 30, 2001, ... attempt to give you some perspective on why we find ourselves in this mess, and how it affects the polyethylene and polypropylene resins (polyolefins) used in so many film, coating, and substrate applications ...

SUBSTRATES REPORT: From Resins to Finished Product - Conformability, Durability, Affordability

(Magazine)

June 30, 2001, ... manufacturers to create different gloss and haze levels, as well as gauges. Polyethylene remains very easy to topcoat and is generally easy to die-cut. PE remains flexible when exposed to cold temperatures, ...

All Zipped Up: Hard-to-Beat Valley Packaging Tackles New Zipper Technology

(Magazine)

June 29, 2001, ... Valley run the gamut in bag production, it also converts a wide array of substrates, which Lance reels off with ease: “We can produce bags and pouches from polyester/polyethylene; polyester/metallized ...

When You Say ''Converted Products,'' You've Said It A

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May 31, 2001, ... currently converts: silicone-coated paper, silicone-coated film, PET, high-density polyethylene, LDPE, oriented polypropylene, coextrusions, foils, felt, and more. “We've die-cut a 60-mil acrylic without ...

A Winning Bet: Profile Industrial Packaging

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May 31, 2001, ... the film itself, reports Swartz, “Primarily, we make high-density polyethylene. We have monolayer lines with four-component blending on the throats of each line. This allows us to produce a lot of different ...

Division Conference Offers Varied Program

(Magazine)

May 31, 2001, ... cover ethyl methyl acrylate copolymers, ethyl butyl acrylate copolymers, high pressure low density polyethylene, gas phase linear low density polyethylene, and single site metallocene plastomers. The session ...

Pellet Transfer: Preventative Measures Employed to Reduce Streamer Formation

(Magazine)

April 30, 2001, ... for polyethylene pellets including transfer in and out of bulk shipping mechanisms can lead to several imperfections in the shape and form of a polymer. These imperfections can cause several downstream ...

The Amcor Story Continues

(Magazine)

March 31, 2001, ... of in-line triplex lamination and coating and processes most of the major flex-pack materials, including aluminum foil, oriented polypropylene, PET, oriented polyamide, cast PP, polyethylene, and paper. ...

Tension Control

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March 31, 2001, ... paper and/or film (polyethylene and polypropylene) constructions in flexible packaging applications. The foil component in some applications fulfills a dual function of esthetics and oxygen/vapor barrier. ...

Fido's Food Goes GLOSS

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March 31, 2001, ... Tolko supplies the plant's multiwall, and Fraser Paper supplies the outer, “printable” substrate. Mobil supplies the plant with polypropylene, which is used to line the operation's pet food bags. Its polyethylene ...