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What's New Product

(Magazine)

March 31, 2008, ...  The Permatran-W Model 1/50 WVTR analyzer is described as a low-cost, single-cell, stand-alone instrument designed to test medium-to-low-barrier film as well as coated paperboard. Analyzer is said to be ...

AIMCAL Elects New Board

(News | New Products)

March 19, 2008, ... New York, a position he has held since rejoining the company in 2004. An expert in barrier substrates, he has developed many products based on coextruded, coated and/or metallized polyethylene terephthalate. ...

Toray Plastics to Lead Toray Industries' Expansion in Europe

(Archive)

March 02, 2008, Toray Industries is establishing Toray Films Europe S.A.S. (also known as TFE) in Rhone-Alpes, France, for the production of Torayfan biaxially oriented polypropylene high-barrier metallized film. NORTH ...

Demographic Demands

(Flexpack)

February 29, 2008, ... barrier requirements in many markets will drive increased demand for value-added materials to enhance shelf life or product protection. Developments in breathable and self-venting films and resealable ...

Peak Performance

(Corona, Flame, Plasma)

February 29, 2008, ... stable dielectric properties, radiation resistance, excellent barrier properties, and acoustic properties. “APTIV film provides a unique combination of high-performance properties that you can't find ...

Partnering in MDO

(News | New Products)

February 19, 2008, ... polymer films using a range of substrates that include olefins, high-barrier webs, and more. The recent installation of an MDO unit at the 26,000-sq-ft facility is the result of a partnership with Windomoeller ...

Plying the Trade

(Coating/Laminating)

January 31, 2008, ... Flex's aggressive expansion from a converting company to a manufacturer of ultra-high-barrier composite films. The trend toward globalization has been met with a carefully crafted domestic production ...

Melamine Revisited

(Coating/Laminating)

January 31, 2008, Barrier-coated flexible packaging, both metallized and clear, is a much-favored choice among brand owners and retailers across the globe today. It offers Barrier-coated flexible packaging, both metallized ...

February Products

(Magazine)

January 31, 2008, ... products is said to be strong and abrasion-resistant, offering an ideal choice for clean packaging applications, especially for products with sharp or protruding parts. Films create a barrier to gases, ...

Products

(New Products)

December 31, 2007, ... of single- and multi-ply snack web products designed for snack and baked good packaging and ice cream novelties. A FlexPak Matrix features more than 25 flexible packaging products and gives exterior, barrier, ...

New Converting Products, Part 3

(Magazine)

November 30, 2007, ... and barrier surface properties intact. Company says process eliminates risk of pinholing that can occur with traditional treatment methods. Enercon Industries Corp. | 262-250-3120 | www.enerconind.com ...

Packaging Film for Thermoform/Shrink Systems

(Archive)

November 25, 2007, ... to the product, creating an attractive package without dog ears. The films’ high-barrier properties and exceptional puncture resistance extend shelf life and minimize damage and waste throughout distribution. ...

Functional Coatings Innovation from DSM

(Flexpack)

November 08, 2007, Stamicarbon BV (DSM Licensing Center) has launched Symphase Technology, an patented process for the creation of transparent oxygen barrier layers based on the vapor depostion of melamine. This technology ...

Eclipse Film Technologies Installs a W&H MDO Unit

(Archive)

October 13, 2007, ... operational. Eclipse will use this new capacity to produce films for the food and medical industries that offer offer cost savings benefits, as well as improved stiffness, strength, optics, and barrier ...

WHAT'S NEW PRODUCT

(Magazine)

September 30, 2007, ... Corp. | 207-878-0700 | southworthproducts.com | PFFC-ASAP 333 Barrier Film Advances Polyester films were developed using a proprietary metallizing process said to provide superior barrier properties ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

September 30, 2007, ... Packaging By Corey M. Reardon, AWA Alexander Watson Assoc. In Europe barrier coatings for gable-top and aseptic packaging have become a major area of focus, with extrusion coating the popular choice for ...

AIMCAL Hosts Annual Fall Technical Conference

(Archive)

September 29, 2007, ... systems, and inertial roll alignment. The Vacuum Web Coating track highlights include requirements of flexible displays, biomedical sensors, high-performance gas barrier materials, new clear barrier ...

News Clips

(Magazine)

August 31, 2007, ... Univ. School of Paper Engineering for a series of its barrier, functional, and decorative coatings. The protocol, developed by a joint committee of the FBA and the American Forest and Paper Assn., tested ...

4th Ed. AIMCAL Metallizing Technical Reference Goes to Print

(Archive)

August 01, 2007, ...  Test Methods and Procedures Electrical, Optical, and Metal Thickness Releationships Barrier Properties of Metallized Films Useful Relationsihips for Metallized Films Metal Evaporation and Heated ...

CONVERTER CLIPS

(Magazine)

July 31, 2007, ... dollars) % Annual Growth Item 2000 2005 2010 00/05 05/10 Total Demand 4,618 5,782 7,295 4.6 4.8 Barrier 2,073 2,866 3,740 6.7 5.5 Decorative 977 1,023 1,110 0.9 1.6 Breathable ...