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What's New in Narrow We

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August 31, 2000, ... reduces plate production time by 75% through a dry thermal plate processor that eliminates conventional chemical solvent or aqueous washout. A high quality flexo plate that normally takes up to 3 hr to ...

For ''Friendly'' Adhesives and Coatings, You Must Prioritiz

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August 31, 2000, ... would be a curing agent that would add 5 cents to the raw material cost and require a 3% lower line speed but offer 100% improvement in chemical resistance for a laminate. So figure out what is most ...

What Is the Role of Additives in Water-Based Inks?

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August 31, 2000, ... ink foaming. Crosslinkers Inks that must meet the toughest requirements will often utilize chemical crosslinking agents in the ink film. Crosslinking agents chemically "link" themselves to the ...

More New Products for the Converting Industry

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August 31, 2000, ... Tilt-Lock, Titan (Valmet), Veeco, Warner Electric, and Webex. Adhesives Provide ''Quick Stick'' National Starch & Chemical, Bridgewater, NJ; 800/797-4992; nationalstarch.com Duro-Tak 36-612A adhesives, ...

Converted Flexible Packaging: Trends to Watch

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July 31, 2000, ... Change is constant and competition is tough. To stay on top, you must stay on top of the trends. William Weizer is VP/Chemicals and Plastics at The Freedonia Group, Cleveland, OH, an international industrial ...

Experts Scan the Future for Technologies with Impact

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May 31, 2000, ... barrier, better strength properties, and better chemical resistance than the laminations we use today. It could even form its own printing to bring out the graphics. In other words, a quantum leap forward." ...

It's Definitely a Bull Market for High-Performance Film

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May 31, 2000, ... high-performance films surround us in our everyday lives. These plastic films are considered to be "high-performance" because they commonly have high temperature or chemical resistance and good barrier ...

Decorative Films Served by Multilayer Structure

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May 31, 2000, ...  "We had to find an alternative," says Ellenbogen. Allied ultimately chose Phillips Chemical's K-Resin styrene-butadiene copolymer to be the dominant part of the five-layered structure. (Allied briefly ...

Latest Gravure Technology Launches Converter into Fray

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April 30, 2000, ... chemical composition of such products as household cleaners and fabric softeners wouldn't saturate the lamination, break it down, and cause leaking. But nobody could do it." Bell then went outside of ...

EPA and printers join forces to evaluate inks.

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October 31, 1996, ... materials, such as volatile organic compounds? If so, what risk does it pose to press operators and the public outside the facility? Are the ink chemicals regulated? If so, meeting regulatory requirements ...

New possibilities for beer packaging in PEN and LCP

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August 31, 1996, ... of an LCP liner with either PET or PEN. In a paper presented at the American Chemical Society meeting in March, Dr. Benny Freeman of North Carolina State noted, "For beer, keeping oxygen out is the whole ...

Aqueous adhesive systems: giving credit where it is due.

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July 31, 1996, The Div. of the History of Chemistry and the Office of Public Outreach of the American Chemical Society recently designated Kem-Tone wall paint as a National The Div. of the History of Chemistry and the ...

In-mold labels: film is today's hot development

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June 30, 1996, ... heat, moisture, and chemical resistance than those labels made from paper. There are also recycling advantages with film labels. However, the greatest advantage with the use of film is a decorative consideration ...

Water-based adhesives meet just-in-time demands.

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March 31, 1996, ... generally would take one to seven days before a full cure would take effect and impart the necessary heat, humidity, chemical, and tunneling resistance properties of the finished laminations. For most ...

For adhesives or coatings, ask the right questions

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February 29, 1996, ... inquire about performance. Does the product have any degree of chemical resistance? What is the heat resistance? What are the aging and performance characteristics over time? Clearly one can obtain ...

Die-cutting developments continue unabated.

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September 30, 1995, ... use of thin, chemically etched cutting plates in the mid 1960s. What is new is their rapid development. According to Edward Porento Sr., president of Best Cutting Die, Skokie, IL, the early versions ...

Film offers food packagers green marketing opportunity

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April 30, 1995, ... bottles made the most economic and environmental sense. It's derived through a lower cost mechanical process rather than chemically. Melinex ECO 813G will, however, carry a modest price premium as it's more ...

Conserving weight, space earns praise for flexible

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March 31, 1995, ... package is the first stand-up pouch on the market designed to hold and protect hand lotion. The proprietary combination of resins and barrier films creates a chemical-barrier web that prevents the product ...