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When Employees Become Owners... A Happy Ending

(Magazine)

May 31, 2000, ... He notes the plant runs low-density polyethylene primarily and consumes in the neighborhood of 55 million lb of LDPE resin per year. But, he adds, the plant extrudes other resins and has substantial laminating ...

It's Definitely a Bull Market for High-Performance Film

(Magazine)

May 31, 2000, ... properties. Some of the major high-performance films include those made from polyethylene terephthalate (PET polyester), nylon, polycarbonate (PC), polyimide (PI), and fluoropolymers. In 1999 Frost ...

Decorative Films Served by Multilayer Structure

(Magazine)

May 31, 2000, ... such as metallocenes, other polyethylenes, ethylene vinyl alcohol, nylons, PPs, and K-Resin SBC. "We like to use K-Resin because is has high gloss, stiffness, and heat resistance," says Planeta. "It plays ...

Latest Gravure Technology Launches Converter into Fray

(Magazine)

April 30, 2000, ... explains Bell. "At first, the two worked under a licensing agreement with the 3M company to use the name ScotchPak." Bell says that in 1957 3M developed ScotchPak, a polyester and extrusion PE (polyethylene) ...

Bagmaking Operation Is There When Customers Call

(Magazine)

April 30, 2000, ... Apollo's business has been mostly in low and linear low-density polyethylene products. However, the company has worked with HDPE and expects to be producing more products in both standard and high molecular ...

French Fry Fascination Brings Big Business to Bonar

(Magazine)

March 31, 2000, ... speeds to 1,500 fpm and were designed to apply polypropylene and polyethylene to natural or bleached kraft papers. Equistar, Dow, Nova, and Westlake supply the plant's resin, and Bonar buys its paper from ...

Flexible Packaging Strategies for 2002: In Summary

(Magazine)

March 31, 2000, ... and flexible intermediate bulk containers (FIBCs) are growing significantly. Palletizing and Unitizing Metallocene linear low-density polyethylene is growing at 9% annually to provide thinner, stronger, ...

System Keeps Static Buildup Problems Under Control

(Magazine)

February 29, 2000, ... casting liner, and release liner products. The facility runs a wide variety of substrates, including biaxially oriented polypropylene, polyethylene, polyester, polyvinyl chloride, polystyrene, and poly-coated ...

Converter Plays Key Role in Mercosur Trading Group

(Magazine)

February 29, 2000, ... with printed polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP) bags, ISMA soon developed the oriented PP market and began producing laminations. Spritzer's background in PE and PP marketing, combined with Uruguay' ...

High-Barrier Packaging: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

(Magazine)

January 31, 2000, ... and it was much earlier than 20 years ago. "You can go back to the 50s, and companies such as Mill Print and Standard Packaging were starting to extrude polyethylene and then laminate to foils. Whenever ...

Clean Room Environment Makes Excellence a Priority

(Magazine)

January 31, 2000, ...  In the industrial films segment, textured and hard-coated polyethylene terephthalate and polycarbonate films are used by the electronics industry for membrane switches, touchscreens, LCD displays, and ...

Dixie Toga Continues to Make Its Mark as a Leader

(Magazine)

December 31, 1999, ... such as (biaxially oriented polypropylene) BOPP/ink/adhesive/metallized BOPP; PET/ink/adhesive/metallized low-density polyethylene; and BOPP/ink/adhesive/BOPP/adhesive/pearl BOPP/adhesive/metallized BOPP. ...

Vision-Based System Wins the Battle Against Defects

(Magazine)

December 31, 1999, ... has been in business for 25 years. It runs polypropylene, polyethylene, and polyester substrates on six- and eight-color presses. A complete prepress department handles inception, design, process color ...

Oxide-coated films are still finding their market niche

(Magazine)

November 30, 1996, ... to date has been with polyethylene terephthalate (PET), but the technologies do not get interesting until non-PET substrates are commercialized. Uncoated PET is presently coated by plasma or evaporation, ...

NOVA and Union Carbide to build ethylene plant

(Magazine)

October 31, 1996, ... of its existing polyethylene capacity in Alberta. Dave Sansom, VP of PE marketing at Novacor, explains, "We hope our plans demonstrate to our polyethylene customers an assurance of supply to meet any ...

EPA and printers join forces to evaluate inks.

(Magazine)

October 31, 1996, ... will be printed on three substrates: * oriented polypropylene * low-density polyethylene * polyethylene/ethyl vinyl acetate Laminates: The oriented PP film will be reverse printed and used ...

New possibilities for beer packaging in PEN and LCP

(Magazine)

August 31, 1996, ... less than 50 ppb immediately after packaging and hold it at that level for as long as possible. Currently of great interest among beer bottlers is polyethylene naphthalate (PEN). Work in naphthalate ...

Taking the measure of surface treatment is a learning process

(Magazine)

August 31, 1996, ... polyethylene, and other poly-based materials have already developed (though not necessarily perfected) methods of measuring the surface energy of treated films. Coming to 'Terms' The term "surface ...

Tetra Pak plant in Spain is environmentally certified.

(Magazine)

July 31, 1996, ... production capacity. The project will include construction of an 800,000-metric tons/yr ethylene cracker, a 535,000-metric tons/yr polyethylene plant, and a 410,000-metric tons/yr ethylene glycol plant. ...

Modified Atmosphere Packaging shows potential for growth

(Magazine)

June 30, 1996, ... from four basic polymers, namely polyvinyl chloride, polyester, polypropylene, and polyethylene. There are three main types of retail MP formats: * the semi-rigid tray, mainly used for packaging meats; ...