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AIMCAL Awards: Canisters Blow Away Competition

(Coating/Laminating)

March 17, 2011, ... Taghleef for a flower bouquet sleeve (11) comprising heat-sealable Nativia NZSS biaxially oriented polylactic acid (PLA) film. It’s derived from corn and is compostable, so both flowers and sleeve are ...

Surface Treating: Promoting Adhesion

(Surface Prep)

February 28, 2011, ... also diminish with these low heat discharges. Cast film extrusion, biaxial orientation systems, laminating, extrusion coating, and printing processes therefore all benefit from these developments. Atmospheric ...

Drives Have New Option

(Drives/Motors)

February 28, 2011, RG3 linear drives now are available with an extra bearing option that doubles the axial thrust capacity of the drive unit without significantly increasing RG3 linear drives now are available with an extra ...

Market Update: Coating & Laminating Special Report: Still Growing

(Flexpack)

January 31, 2011, ... has been marked consolidation in the metallized paper production segment, with Vacumet emerging as the single largest commercial producer. As in all markets, biaxially oriented polypropylene (BOPP) ...

Materials Substrates: Building Blocks

(Flexpack)

November 30, 2010, ... 319 or visit www.freeproductinfo.net/pff Ecodear compostable bio-based films are manufactured with PLA resin. Thin, biaxially oriented films include a metallized heat sealable grade that delivers ...

Flexographic Printing: Super Setup

(Inspection/Defect Detection)

September 30, 2010, ... houses four flexographic central impression presses, a stack press, two laminators, and four slitters. The company runs polypropylene (PP), biaxially oriented PP, polyethylene, and a little paper from ...

Barrier Films: SiOx Barrier Benefits

(Coatings)

September 30, 2010, ... coating, Ceramis, comprises a thin inorganic layer of silicon oxide that has been evaporated in a vacuum environment to substrates like polyethylene terephthalate (PET), oriented polyamide (OPA) and biaxially ...

Flex Americas To Double BOPET Production

(Flexpack)

August 15, 2010, Flex Americas S.A. de C.V., a leading manufacturer of high quality packaging films that started operations in March 2009, plans to double its capacity of biaxially oriented polyester (BOPET) film ALTAMIRA, ...

Study Looks at BOPA Capacity

(Trends/Management)

June 30, 2010, NORTHAMPTONSHIRE, UK | The serious overcapacity that has faced the biaxially oriented nylon film (BOPA) industry since 2004 appears to be nearly over, NORTHAMPTONSHIRE, UK | The serious overcapacity that ...

Drives Retrofit: More Space, Less Power

(Slit)

May 31, 2010, ... keep up with the demands of today's BOPP [biaxially oriented polypropylene] film production requirements.” AET has six other Atlas primary and secondary film slitters, all installed during the 1990s, ...

Toray Plastics Announces Commercialization of European Plant

(News | New Products)

May 12, 2010, ... of bi-axially oriented polypropylene (BOPP) NORTH KINGSTOWN, RI | Toray Plastics (America), Inc., said to be the only US manufacturer of precision-performance polyester and polypropylene films, has announced ...

Narrow Web's Leverag

(Label/Tape)

March 31, 2010, ... characteristics and shorter shelf life than PPFP due to metallized biaxially oriented PP (BOPP) versus foil sealant. The 35# PPMOPP is used for improved puncture resistance for noodles and large granulated ...

Multipack Juices It Up

(Metallizing)

March 31, 2010, ... Graphics have a rich, 3-D quality made possible by spot matte lacquer that contrasts with glossy areas. Taghleef supplies the 48-µm TSS biaxially oriented polypropylene (BOPP) laminated to 20-µm ZSF ...

AIMCAL Awards

(Coating/Laminating)

March 21, 2010, ... SanGiorgio di Nogaro, Italy. Graphics have a rich, 3-D quality made possible by spot matte lacquer that contrasts with glossy areas. Taghleef supplies the 48-µm TSS biaxially oriented polypropylene ...

Flexible Packaging: Narrow Web's Leverag

(Flexpack)

March 21, 2010, ... shelf life than PPFP due to metallized biaxially oriented PP (BOPP) versus foil sealant. The 35# PPMOPP is used for improved puncture resistance for noodles and large granulated spice packs. Film-faced ...

Do It Yourself

(Adhesives)

November 30, 2009, ... and biaxially oriented polypropylene films. SuperJet was developed specially for on-demand inkjet label printers, both desktop and roll-to-roll, that use full-process color to add impact and/or functionality ...

Films 101: Back to Basics

(Archive)

November 30, 2009, ... biaxially oriented polypropylene (BOPP), polyethylene (PE), polyvinyl chloride (PVC), polyethylene terephthalate (PET), and polystyrene (PS). One of the fastest growing and most economical films, BOPP ...

Taghleef Industries Opens US Office

(News | New Products)

November 17, 2009, Taghleef Industries LLC, one of the leading global producers of biaxially oriented polypropylene BOPP films, has announced the opening of its new USA offices in Charleston, SC. CHARLESTON, SC | Taghleef ...

Parkinson Technologies Adds Seven Layer Capability to Pilot Lab

(News | New Products)

November 16, 2009, ... for customers using its film/sheet extrusion and biaxial orientation pilot lab. “This arrangement not only enables us to make wider films with more layers than was previously possible, but it also affords ...

Parkinson Adds 7-Layer Capability to Pilot Lab

(News Clips Archive)

October 31, 2009, ... a new Cloeren seven-layer Variable Geometry (VG) feedblock and 20-in. Epoch extrusion die for customers using its Marshall & Williams film/sheet extrusion and biaxial orientation pilot lab. In addition, ...