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3 Pandemic-Driven Trends That Are Changing the Packaging Industry

(News | New Products)

December 06, 2021, ... high-barrier films into packaging. These films replace foil-based products to keep moisture out, which keeps food fresh for longer and helps combat food waste. Customer Experience is Everything The ...

Sappi Rockwell Solutions Launches a Sustainable Lidding Film for the Soft Fruit Industry

(Flexpack)

November 10, 2021, ... increased impressions per reel. Options include 30 or 60 percent PCR content and if used without perforations, a high oxygen and moisture barrier to increase product shelf-life even further. Sappi Rockwell ...

Easy Open Application in Flexible Packaging: Snack N’ Seal

(Flexpack)

October 24, 2021, ... adhesives and finishes to deliver the desired barrier and structural properties for the finished package. Materials can be produced in both roll form or as individual pouches. To create the openings ...

Admiral Packaging New Metallic Advantage Provides Products a Consumer Choice Edge with Superior Flexible Metalized Film

(News | New Products)

October 14, 2021, ... a variety of film structures creating windows in metalized films, allowing for striking metallic finishes and enhanced barrier properties.   “In creating Metallic Advantage, Admiral offers companies ...

Looking for Custom Converting Solutions?

(Equipment/Machines - Converting)

October 10, 2021, ... targets. New pouch formats often require combining several different resin grades to achieve desired barrier properties, toughness, sealing characteristics and clarity. Multi-layer film extrusion capabilities ...

UFlex Teams Up with Hoffer Plastics and Mespack to Launch 100 Percent Recyclable Mono-Polymer Hot-Fill Pouches

(News | New Products)

September 26, 2021, ... PP-based Hot-fill Pouch reportedly combines the strength of OPP & CPP layered laminate structure designed by UFlex offering enhanced barrier properties with easy heat seal-ability and longer shelf life ...

FLEXcon Expands Eco-Friendly Packaging Product Line

(News | New Products)

August 22, 2021, ... In undecorated form, both products meet or exceed the Association of Plastic Recycler’s HDPE-CG-01, Critical Guidance Protocol for HDPE colored or natural bottles with resin additives, barriers, layers, ...

Roundtable Q&A: Static Control

(Static Elimination)

August 08, 2021, ... to how fast the process can be run, how safely the line is operated and the quality of the delivered product. Static control eliminates one of the greatest barriers to achieving high quality - contamination. ...

Polysack and Flessofab Launch Novel Recyclable Packaging Available In British Market

(News | New Products)

June 14, 2021, ... properties: mechanical, optical, gas transmission (barrier) and thermal resistance, all while maintaining a particularly low film thickness of less than 25 microns. Already commercialized for dried fruits, ...

Sappi Rockwell Solutions Launches a Sustainable, Coated Lidding Film Ahead of the Proposed UK Plastic Packaging Tax

(News | New Products)

June 06, 2021, ... good oxygen and moisture vapour transmission rate barriers to increase product shelf-life. Moreover, the Starlid GPE-CL seals to all types of food packaging trays, including PP, paperboard and all PET ...

Value-Added Processes: Coating, Laminating and Metallizing

(Coating)

June 06, 2021, ... coating machinery is built for versatility for adding different polymers to the primary web as a moisture barrier, vapor barrier, or has a strengthening agent. Davis-Standard’s coating platforms are known ...

Web Considerations for Today’s Flexible Packaging

(News | New Products)

May 16, 2021, ...  Technical advancements in flexible packaging materials have enabled thinner webs to be processed with the same or greater strength and barrier properties. Physics states that the resistance of webs to ...

Mondi Packages Potatoes in Award-Winning Paper Bag with Sustainex Bio-Based Coating

(News | New Products)

May 04, 2021, ... kraft paper to ensure strength in handling while providing barrier properties to keep the produce fresh. The bag has multiple sustainability features: a corn starch-based netting for a small cut-out ...

Mondi Celebrates Eight Wins at the 2021 WorldStar Packaging Awards

(News | New Products)

January 11, 2021, ... efficient and now 100% recyclable design, it offers safer and more reliable shipping, easier handling and better economics. PerFORMing PerFORMing is a thermoformable paper-based packaging with a barrier ...

The Myriad Benefits of Metallized Packaging

(Flexpack)

December 28, 2020, ... barrier metallized polyester films. The migration trend from aluminum laminate to metallized films continues globally, following a strong trend of substituting rigid packages for flexible packaging, especially ...

TOPAS Advanced Polymers’ Cyclic Olefin Copolymer (COC) Earns Certification as Recyclable Material in Europe

(News | New Products)

November 01, 2020, ... labels for decoration and other applications such as polyolefin-based high-barrier films and recyclable pouches.”  The findings by Institut cyclos-HTP reportedly conclude that COC can be considered as ...

AIMCAL Hall of Honor Inducts First Five Members

(News | New Products)

October 19, 2020, ... NY), offers consulting and technical training in film orientation, barrier technologies, coextrusion, and extrusion and also measures polymer melt viscosity with a capillary rheometer. A leading developer ...

Major Global Automaker Launches Pilot Trial of Cortec’s Eco-Corr Film

(News | New Products)

September 23, 2020, ... VpCI® Technology and reportedly provides excellent contact, barrier, and vapor-phase corrosion protection for ferrous and non-ferrous metals. Eco-Corr Film will reportedly disintegrate within months ...

Mondi Partners With SalzburgMilch and SPAR to Reduce Plastic Waste From Food Packaging

(News | New Products)

September 20, 2020, ... SalzburgMilch Premium and the premium own-brand SPAR Natur*pur organic cheese slices. The shallow paper tray reportedly combines the recyclability of paper with the essential barrier properties of a thin ...

Exploring New Options in More Sustainable Packaging Formulations

(News | New Products)

August 30, 2020, ... Development Manager Barrier Coatings - Pulp and Paper Technologies Solenis More and more consumers, brand owners and other stakeholders are now looking beyond the traditional three-arrow triangle “seal ...