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Division Conference Offers Varied Program

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May 31, 2001, ... The titles of the four panel discussions are “Ask The Converter,” “The Web Is The Place To Be,” “Barrier Packaging: End User Perspectives,” and “What Do They Know: A Converter's Panel.” In the first panel, ...

Materials

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April 30, 2001, ... plain or surface-printed applications on horizontal packaging machines. Said to provide excellent machinability over wide temperature ranges, along with good moisture barrier performance. Other reported ...

Reporter Clips

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March 31, 2001, ... which have unique absorbency and barrier properties; hydrogels, advanced dressings that absorb fluids or act as delivery systems for cosmetic or pharmaceutical ingredients; films and foams that offer a ...

The Amcor Story Continues

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March 31, 2001, ... butter miniatures, can utilize the company's Foldall system that uses a registered coating to yield a hermetic seal. Both systems offer tamper-evident features, barrier properties, insect infestation ...

Converting Industry News

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March 30, 2001, ... U.K.—Rexam High Performance Flexibles produces flex-pack materials with high-barrier properties for a range of food and drink products. Recently the company incorporated NDC Infrared Engineering's on-line ...

Materials

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March 30, 2001, New materials from: Acucote Inc., AET Films, Epsilon-Opti Films, Equistar Chemicals, Metallized Products, National Starch, Sensor Products, and Willett America. Metallized OPP Offers Barrier Properties ...

Converting Industry News

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February 28, 2001, ... RI, USA—Toray Plastics (America) Inc., a wholly owned sub. of Toray Industries, Tokyo, Japan, will join forces with Bimo S.P.A., Atessa, Italy, to develop high-barrier, metallized OPP films for sale into ...

FPA Celebrates Excellence in Flexible Packaging

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February 28, 2001, ... colorful packages were surface printed with water-based, electron beam-curable inks, as well as an EB ultra-gloss lacquer developed specifically for these packages. The soft candy needed a high-barrier ...

European Conference

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February 28, 2001, ... papers include “New Oxygen Scavengers For The Packaging Industry” by Paavo Lehtonen of Bioka Oy, “Processing and Converting of Plastic Films Vacuum Coated With Inorganic Barriers” by Hans R. Naegeli and ...

Flex-Pack Operation Likes to Convert the Complex

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February 28, 2001, ... and barrier stock for spices (NC cello-barrier PE). There are also novel structures for “wet wipes” containing alcohol and easy-peel materials for vacuum-packed rice. Materials suppliers include VAW ...

Converting Industry News

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January 31, 2001, ... resin, has a low activation temperature as the base sealant material. As a result, its metallized OPP laminate barrier reportedly is not diminished in the sealing process, greatly improving the overall ...

There Are Many Reasons for Packaging Peculiarities

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January 31, 2001, ... laminate for a flexible package. Although foil or a metallized substrate often has a good reason for being there, such as providing barrier properties, foil is sometimes in a laminate only to provide cosmetic ...

Innovative Problem-Solving: Advances in the Industry

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January 31, 2001, ... Systems Inc. (408/524-8160). But the OLED technology needed a barrier to protect it from moisture and oxygen. "Glass is an effective barrier, but encapsulating an OLED between two sheets of glass isn' ...

A Communication from the PLACE Div. of TAPPI

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January 30, 2001, ... field of barrier packaging, the conference in 2001 will feature technical papers with the latest information in this area," said Cordatos. New features for 2001 will include information on the best ...

Products

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December 31, 2000, New from: ADI International, Anderson & Vreeland, Arrowhive, Brookfield Engineering, BST Pro Mark, Colter & Peterson, Dienes, Ducker Automation, Elsner Engineering, Faustel, Intl. Converting Equipment, ...

Film Extrusion Committee News

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November 30, 2000, ... were Edward L. Cussler and Chungfang Yang of the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science of the University of Minnesota. The title of the paper was Reactive Barrier Films. An expanded ...

Pouchmaking Equipment Adapts as Materials Advance

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November 30, 2000, ... are seeing specialty films that are thinner, stretchier, multilayered. While multiple thin layers of film will reduce the weight of the pouch and increase the barrier, they can cause problems in production. ...

Converting Industry News

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November 29, 2000, News from: Bachofen & Meier, Barrier Films, BHS, Biocorp, Dusenbery, GulfStates Paperboard, Jalema, Kapak, Multapex, Northern Expediting Corp., Pactiv Corp., PCMC, PMC, PPC, SJP (UK) Ltd., Solutia, Stora ...

Converting Industry News

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October 31, 2000, ...  MONROE, LA, USA—A range of custom-sized Barrier Foil Bags, designed to prevent corrosion during export transit, has been developed by Shield Pack. Manufactured to ISO-9002 standards, the bags are said ...

Materials

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October 31, 2000, ... label industry. Ready to be converted to exact specifications, rewound, and shipped in 24 hr, this ultra-smooth, curl-resistant direct thermal reportedly is barrier coated with thermally sensitive materials ...