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(Magazine)

December 30, 2003, ... North America is a thin polyester film double coated with a permanent acrylic adhesive on one side and a removable acrylic adhesive on the other, reportedly making it ideal for the construction of medical ...

Products and Materials

(Magazine)

December 30, 2003, ... small-format printers and converters can UV print or coat on all substrates including coated stock, plastic film, and foil. Said to fold and wrap immediately with no ink offsetting. Brake Upgrade Brings ...

Totally Rockin' Metal

(Magazine)

November 30, 2003, ... converter: It coated a 12-µm-thick PET film of DuPont Teijin Films with AIOx and laminated it against a 38-µm-thick linear low-density PE film. The latter is printed prior to lamination by six-color gravure ...

Materials

(Materials)

November 29, 2003, ... surface for reflection. Beads act as lenses for light amplification from the mirrored surface, creating sparkling graphics or lettering. Coated with a white, opaque adhesive and features a 92# white, polycoated ...

Products

(Magazine)

November 29, 2003, ... data and statistical information. Can measure coated paper as well as foils and films. Suited for packaging, adhesive tapes, labels, plastic, and carrier bags. Sense Luminescence Even with Color Shifts ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

October 31, 2003, ... into a single, full-service BOPP film supplier for the US, designated Treofan America. BOPP films include transparent, opaque, coated, cast, and metallized films and are found in the baking/snack, confectionery, ...

Products

(Magazine)

October 30, 2003, ... Coated Blade Works Well on Metallic Inks Edward Graphics, Niagara Falls, NY; 905/791-8228; egs.com The Xcalibur X-99 long-life coated blade is recommended for metallic pigmented inks, including titanium ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

September 30, 2003, ... paper mill Schoeller & Hoesch GmbH & Co. KG to metallize precoated paper, will be designed to handle rolls 2,270 mm wide with diameters to 1,240 mm. Supplier Information Applied Films Corp.—PFFC-ASAP ...

Coating Success

(Unprinted Rolls)

September 30, 2003, ...  The coater is unable to produce improved quality. New coated structures are more complex — multiple layers, thin coatings, light gauge substrates. High costs due to poor coater yield and ...

Meeting the Need

(Materials)

September 30, 2003, ... MACtac, MeadWestvaco, Michelman Inc., National Adhesives, Pechiney, Smurfit-Stone, and Toray Plastics (America). Reflex II hardcoated graphic overlay film has been designed to meet the high-performance ...

BOPP Film: How Real Is the China Threat?

(Flexpack)

September 30, 2003, ... Brazil, and the Philippines. ExxonMobil supplies plain, coextruded, and coated films. The company is the world market leader in all aspects. Treofan (Netherlands) recently has been established through ...

A Global Focus on the Market

(Magazine)

September 30, 2003, ... Liners' Future Growth Our research shows industrial self-adhesive tapes, both double- and single-coated, will be the major growth area for release liners in the future — particularly as the world's developing ...

Solving the Problem of Silicone Transfer

(Magazine)

September 30, 2003, ... on liners for self-adhesive laminates is not only the preserve of label stocks. The large-format, self-adhesive graphic arts market uses significant volumes of silicone-coated release liner on laminates ...

Spotlight on the North American Market

(Disposables)

September 30, 2003, ... Figure 2). Polycoated papers and films each account for 11% of the overall market, while clay-coated papers take 10%. Film release liners still have a relatively small market share overall — just 11%. ...

A Cure for the Common Marketing Technique

(News | New Products)

September 07, 2003, ... Resources Group (PRG). Forte combines a bright-white coated facing stock with a kraft board to deliver sturdy packaging with brilliant graphic reproduction. A few factors contributed to Torquato’s recommendation. ...

Adhesion of Coatings to Aluminum Foil

(The Place)

August 31, 2003, ... that was very thick (15 nm) at the edges with a thinner (5 nm) oxide in the middle — both perfectly wettable. Ethylene acrylic acid (EAA) films with 6% acrylic acid were melt coated onto this foil in a ...

A Look at Adhesion Increase in Pressure-Sensitive Adhesives

(Tapes)

August 31, 2003, ... provide the user with a substrate coated on one side with an adhesive. The next step is to apply the adhesive side of the substrate to the surface of an item. The final operation usually involves application ...

Europe: Label's Leade

(Tapes)

August 31, 2003, ... use of coated and uncoated paper grades in VIP applications. Paper volumes increase at or above GDP levels, but film volumes continue to grow at substantially higher levels of around 11%, reflecting ...

Materials

(Materials)

August 31, 2003, ... for display applications where physical contact with a screen is a concern. For highly critical applications, two-sided CFS features a clear, hardcoated interior sputtering surface. Films can be tailored ...

Permanent & Removable Pressure-Sensitive Adhesives

(Magazine)

July 31, 2003, ... Attempts at removal therefore result in tearing of the paper. By definition, this is a permanent pressure-sensitive adhesive. Suppose the same pressure-sensitive adhesive was coated onto a rather thick ...