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Some Causes of Blocking in Heat Seal CoatingsPart II

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October 31, 2000, ... seal adhesive to have a high level of moisture or solvent as it enters the roll for winding. This also acts as a plasticizer or softener that will cause blocking as the coating ages. Converters using ...

Materials

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October 31, 2000, New from: AdLamCo. Inc., H.B. Fuller Co., Kraton Polymers, Metallized Products Inc., Proma Technologies, Russell-Field Paper Co., Rohm and Haas Co., Sun Chemical Ink, and Unifoil Corp. Holographic Paper ...

Conference Features New Networking Opportunity

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October 31, 2000, ... ozone as adhesion promoters during the extrusion coating process. They noted that "advanced control systems and a move toward aqueous inks and adhesives have led to increasing demands for better treatment ...

Technology Puts Converter "In-Line" for More Succes

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September 30, 2000, ... sides of a printed web in register, in-line. Phoenix buys its paper from Rhinelander/Wausau Paper, International Paper (Thilmany), and EB Eddy Paper. Ink and adhesive suppliers are proprietary. "Development ...

Common Causes of Blocking in Heat Seal CoatingsPart I

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September 30, 2000, ... The heat seal coating functions as an adhesive that bonds the two surfaces together. An advantage of this type of adhesive is that it does not have to bond immediately as with a laminating adhesive. Instead, ...

Hot Melt Symposium Covers Many Topics

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September 30, 2000, ... job information, meeting schedules, and on-line anonymous buying and selling opportunities. For his presentation entitled "Raw Material Trends for Hot Melt Adhesives in Europe," Robert W. Smith of The ...

The Waiting Is Over, Let the Copy Flow

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August 31, 2000, ... high-profile, international platform for all its news and selected papers on a monthly basis. The result is a special section called "the P.L.A.C.E." (polymers, laminations, adhesives, coatings, and ...

Snack Food Packaging: 100 Years and Counting

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June 30, 2000, ... PE extrusion coating process in 1948. 1950s Milprint (and other materials companies) develop reliable, cost-effective adhesives. Thin-layer laminations of multiple materials; combinations ...

Experts Scan the Future for Technologies with Impact

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May 31, 2000, ... advisor Grover Foote. Is there a Gutenberg-style revolutionary invention awaiting converters in the next decade? Materials In the past, much new development work in the adhesives and coatings field ...

Latest Gravure Technology Launches Converter into Fray

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April 30, 2000, ... applications). According to Bell, "Our high-performance adhesive structures can handle requirements for moisture/oxygen barriers, sterilization temperatures, and puncture resistance." Bell says that ...

Converter Plays Key Role in Mercosur Trading Group

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February 29, 2000, ... adhesives. PE resin is purchased from Poliolefinas and Petroquimica Truinfo. Ink suppliers are Belcar and Castiglioni. ISMA is a major supplier to Fleischmann Uruguaya (Nabisco) and Pepsico Snacks with ...

Pointing finger places blame but won't solve the proble

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November 30, 1996, ... packaging industry does not work properly. The construction might be as simple as one flexible substrate laminated to another with an adhesive. It can also be considerably more complex, with inks, adhesives, ...

Flexible packaging converter treats its customers right.

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October 31, 1996, ... The surface of the printed substrate and the metallized inner film are laminated with adhesive. However, metallized film presents a problem, because it requires a relatively high dyne level to adhere ...

Popcorn packaging leads converter down new paths.

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October 31, 1996, ... Industries, and water-based adhesives are supplied by H.B. Fuller. Raising Quality, Cutting Cost Himac's film is key to the operation, according to Jackson, who reports that the film has extremely ...

Taking the "magic" and the mystery out of treatin

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August 31, 1996, ... are chemically inert because of their nonpolar nature. This inertness makes it impossible for inks, coatings, and adhesives to adhere. Surface treatment - spark gap treating, metal electrode treating, ...

Laminator adds metallizing to the mix

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August 31, 1996, ... to customer-specified humidity levels, it is hermetically sealed in shrinkwrap before shipment or storage. Alubec uses water-based lacquers and adhesives. "It's more than ecology; we have to give the ...

In-mold labels: film is today's hot development

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June 30, 1996, ... was not a common technology. A desire to reduce costs was the motive for its development. A successful combination of a traditional heat-seal adhesive with some innovations in the blow molding operation ...

Handling hazardous materials: are you up to date?

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May 31, 1996, ... removed adhesives, coatings, and inks from their hands and arms by washing with toluene, methyl ethyl ketone, or other solvent. Mixing-room employees could be seen eating sandwiches while they were readying ...

Pay attention to flash points, and you won't get burne

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March 31, 1996, ... use the value reported on the Material Safety Data Sheet. That is often appropriate. A rarely considered exception arises in those instances when someone adds an ingredient to a purchased adhesive or ...

Film offers food packagers green marketing opportunity

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April 30, 1995, ...  Standard Melinex 813 is a pretreated PET film offering improved surface adhesion for inks and adhesive laminations. It's favored by many food packagers and converters over other films both PET and non-PET, ...