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A Secure Alternative

(Magazine)

March 30, 2004, ... layers of optical elements are fused into a solid polymer film that can't be disassembled to get to the internal optical elements. This presents a huge barrier to counterfeiting because it defeats the ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

March 30, 2004, ... surface design, and use of resources. Entered by Alcan Packaging Singen. (1) Dalehead Sausages — The first UK “cook-in-the-tray” high-barrier, aluminum foil pouch for sausages allows the consumer simply ...

Stora Enso Boards Div. Predicts Paperboard Cups to Take Slice of Snack Packaging Market

(News | New Products)

March 28, 2004, ... coated with thin layers of various polymer compounds in order to provide optimal barrier, sealing and printability properties. Traditionally, cupstock has been used for the production of beverage containers, ...

Stora Enso Boards Div. Predicts Paperboard Cups to Take Slice of Snack Packaging Market

(News | New Products)

March 27, 2004, ... coated with thin layers of various polymer compounds in order to provide optimal barrier, sealing and printability properties. Traditionally, cupstock has been used for the production of beverage containers, ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

February 28, 2004, ... need good barrier to humidity, Ditmar adds, which theComposipac structure provides. IBC Has Many Strengths Reusable and tough, the Multi-Trip Bin ten-ply corrugated Intermediate Bulk Container (IBC) ...

Migration of Fluorescent Whitening Agents from Food Packaging Made from Recycled Paper

(Magazine)

February 28, 2004, ... yield information on the presence of total FWAs present in uncoated papers. Food packaging papers are often impregnated with barrier coatings that act to prevent or minimize migration of contaminants ...

Precisia Presents Key RFID Developments at Intelligent Packaging USA; Packaging Supply Chains to Experience '(R)Evolution' of RFID

(News | New Products)

February 03, 2004, ... the benefit of high-speed printing processes over screen processes for antenna application. The production speed and unit cost of RFID tags are significant barriers to the widespread adoption of ...

The Global Metallizing Market

(Magazine)

January 31, 2004, ... film coatings have promised much for many years but still fail to take off outside niche areas, such as uses in Japan for clear barrier flexible packaging and in Europe for microwavable pouches. “Metallized ...

Darwin Would Approve

(Unprinted Rolls)

January 30, 2004, ... to achieve improved barrier properties and better metal adhesion.” The new metallizers will be integrated with two new Galileo slitter/rewinders and related automatic roll handling equipment. “Rolls ...

RFID and Conductive Inks: What You Need to Know

(News | New Products)

January 14, 2004, ... type of operation that this technology isn’t right for? Rohrkemper: We’re not seeing any major barrier to entry or huge capital investments like a clean room or anything like the electronics industry ...

European Report Covers Flex-Pack Industry in Depth

(Flexpack)

November 30, 2003, ... (US), the industry is characterized by a strong market for sophisticated barrier multilayer laminations and coextrusions. “Like the Turkish flexible packaging industry, some Israeli converters are supplying ...

Totally Rockin' Metal

(Magazine)

November 30, 2003, ... polyethylene (PE) film in terms of barrier properties and outer appearance. They succeeded in meeting the specifications first by reverse printing the outer iented polypropylene (OPP) film, then laminating ...

A Communication from the PLACE Div. of TAPPI

(Magazine)

November 29, 2003, ... Exchange European Exchange: Rome Conference Extrusion Coating/Laminating on Nonwovens Printing and Converting Extrusion Coating Equipment Barrier Resins in Extrusion Coating Extrusion Coating: The ...

Drug Dispensers

(Archive)

September 30, 2003, ... and heat sealable polyethylene (PE) portions. The foil serves as a vapor barrier, and PE is used for heat sealing purposes. Emerging and Future Patch Technologies Extended Wear Patches — Because of ...

Furthering Substrate Functionality

(Magazine)

September 30, 2003, ... says Broomfield, to the polymer film. “It's also used to improve barrier. The barrier property improvement, in most cases, comes from the adhesion improvement,” he adds. But some companies are taking ...

Converter Panel Attracts Interest at Conference

(The Place)

September 30, 2003, ... healthcare industry, flexible packaging laminations, barrier products, films, adhesives, etc. Other sessions involving panels that addressed topics of current interest to the audience at the conference ...

Meeting the Need

(Materials)

September 30, 2003, ... is called ideal for food, dairy, lidding, coffee, personal care, pharmaceutical, board lamination, and electronic applications. The films reportedly provide excellent oxygen barrier properties as well ...

Division Issues Call for Papers

(The Place)

September 30, 2003, ... be part of the program. Packaging subjects will include barrier, medical, and microwaveable packaging and recycling and environmentally friendly packaging. The meeting will also include topics relating ...

Products

(Magazine)

September 29, 2003, ... metallizers in the field as well as its own. Said to provide significant improvement in both oxygen and water barriers, system also reportedly allows some previously unmetallizable films to be metallized. ...

International Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

August 31, 2003, ...  Supplier News Unique Cast Film Line Operating in China Macro Engineering reports it shipped, in June 2003, a “one-of-a-kind” seven-layer, 2.4-m-wide cast barrier film line to a Chinese manufacturer ...