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- The Amcor Story Continues
- (Magazine)
- March 31, 2001, ... to include a wide range of flex-pack materials, including base polyolefin film extrusion. General manager Filip Lens explains, “Our unique Flemish multi-cultural linguistic society, coupled with a sophisticated ...
- Hot Melt Committee Holds Annual Symposium
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- March 31, 2001, ... Elastomer With Amorphous Polyolefins In Hot Melt Sealants.” Robert S. Forsyth, retired, will address “Packaging And Hot Melt Packaging Adhesives: 50 Years Of Change And Progress.” The final paper of the ...
- Materials
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- March 30, 2001, ... 800/791-1030 Mfr. says frozen food producers can enhance the visual impact of packaging with Opti-95 shrink film. It is described as a high-clarity, biaxially oriented polyolefin film that achieves shrink ...
- Specially Designed Metallocene Copolymers for Extrusion Coating
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- February 28, 2001, ... economical disadvantages. Polyolefin plastomers (POP) that are metallocene polymers are now available with equal and sometimes better ultimate hot tack and high temperature hot tack compared with current ...
- Flex-Pack Operation Likes to Convert the Complex
- (Magazine)
- February 28, 2001, ... extruders process polyethylene. Amcor produces monofilm and utilizes a wide variety of polyolefins — metallocenes, ionomers, and varying density PEs. The plant also features a fully equipped prepress ...
- Products
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- February 28, 2001, ... of juice, water, soft drinks, wine, and liquor. The biaxially oriented polyolefin film reportedly achieves precision shrink consistently, without irradiation, at low sealant temperatures. Available in ...
- Odd Shape? Odd Substrate? You Might Try Pad Printing
- (Magazine)
- January 31, 2001, ... that can be used to print on 3-D objects. Examples of products that utilize this printing technology are golf balls, syringe barrels, untreated silicon, and polyolefin plastics. Pad printing has been ...
- In-Mold Labeling Makes Strides Worldwide
- (Magazine)
- December 31, 2000, ... a synthetic, paper-like substrate designed specifically for IML applications. Made from discrete polyolefin fibers on a traditional paper machine, the product combines the blister resistance of paper with ...
- Extrusion Coating Committee News
- (Magazine)
- December 31, 2000, ... of wetting tension of polyolefin films and coated surfaces via the mayer rod technique." Four companies participated in round robin testing to help write a precision statement for the test method. The ...
- Converting Industry News
- (Magazine)
- October 31, 2000, ... Voltek, Zotefoams Form Alliance LAWRENCE, MA, & FLORENCE, KY, USA—Voltek, a div. of Sekisui America Corp., has formed an alliance with Zotefoams to market block polyolefin foams used in a variety of ...
- Conference Features New Networking Opportunity
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- October 31, 2000, ... "State of the Polyolefins Industry" was the title of the presentation by Howard Rappaport of CMAI. Annette Comer of MarTech spoke on "Future of Flexible Packaging." Rappaport noted that energy is a very ...
- Battle of the Materials Is on for Blister Packaging Market
- (Magazine)
- September 30, 2000, ... currently is receiving a significant amount of attention. The introduction of cyclic polyolefins (COC0) by Ticona in Germany offers the pharma blister package yet another alternative. This new olefinic ...
- Assessing Real-Life Sealant Performance in Flexible Packaging
- (Magazine)
- September 30, 2000, Application: Polyolefin plastomers exhibit excellent caulkability to deliver the sealing characteristics necessary for total package performance. Application: Polyolefin plastomers exhibit excellent caulkability ...
- Snack Food Packaging: 100 Years and Counting
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- June 30, 2000, ... Packaging Award. 1940s Snack consumption rises during WWII era, due, in part, to more working members per family. Polyolefins developed: polyethylene (PE) and polyvinylidene chloride (PVDC, ...
- Flexible Packaging Strategies for 2002: In Summary
- (Magazine)
- March 31, 2000, ... needs increase. To contain costs, such items as prepackaged procedure kits use lower-cost flexible packaging. The top five dollar markets were all in medical packaging. Spun-bonded polyolefin, coated papers, ...
- FPA Winners Prove Again How to Do More with Less
- (Magazine)
- February 29, 2000, ... oriented polyolefin (COP) and oxygen barrier construction of the package extends pet food shelf life, improves freshness and palatability, and reduces insect infestation concerns. The COP abuse/sealant ...
- High-Barrier Packaging: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
- (Magazine)
- January 31, 2000, ... says his company has been involved in the market since the mid-70s. "In barrier packaging, we use tie-layer adhesives [polyolefins that bond dissimilar polymers together in a multilayer structure], and ...
- Getting the most value from your extrusion coater.
- (Magazine)
- November 30, 1996, ... existing and prospective customers. A key to most R&D efforts or production trials, particularly if frequent short runs are involved, is flexibility. As a major supplier of polyolefin extrusion coating ...
- Taking the "magic" and the mystery out of treatin
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- August 31, 1996, ... industry. Flexible packaging as practiced today would not exist without this significant factor, which allows the use of most polyolefin substrates. Considering the importance of treating, it is surprising ...
- Taking the measure of surface treatment is a learning process
- (Magazine)
- August 31, 1996, ... be that lab personnel using cotton swabs have a tendency to vary the amount that is picked up by the cotton swab, thus varying the results of the test. Also, the method of rubbing the liquid onto the polyolefin ...
