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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 ...

Materials

(Materials)

July 31, 2003, ... in new powder-coated finishes being used to protect germ-gathering surfaces. In powder coating, tiny dry particles of pigment and resin are given an electric charge, then sprayed on to a variety of consumer ...

Active Packaging

(Flexpack)

July 31, 2003, ... in which the anti-microbial agent migrates from the film or coated film surface and those in which the agent remains within the film or coating. Due to the nature of food, films or coatings in which the ...

What's Ahead for Industrial Ink Jet

(Office Products)

July 31, 2003, ... it continues to be used to print on paper and synthetic substrates. Many substrates today are coated prior to being printed with ink jet, but advances in ink technology are beginning to remove this ...

European Meeting Presents Large Technical Program

(Magazine)

July 31, 2003, ... prepared in a laboratory scale dry surface treatment unit. The authors concluded from their work that DST may be a promising technique for producing coated structures. “Environmentally Benign Packaging ...

A New Enhanced Polyethylene for Extrusion Coating and Laminating

(The Place)

July 31, 2003, Application: Using metallocene catalyst technology provides an enhanced polyethylene with excellent heat sealing performance in extrusion-coated and extrusion-laminated constructions. PEER-REVIEWED TECHNICAL ...

What's New in Narrow We

(Magazine)

June 30, 2003, ... way to increase the life of graphics exposed to damaging UV rays, moisture, and scratching. Film is coated with a clear, permanent, p-s acrylic adhesive compatible with most dye-based inks. It is backed ...

FTA Raises the Bar

(Magazine)

June 30, 2003, ... line, coated, uncoated, metallized, film and paperboard. Graphic design entries were not subcategorized. Medals Recap Forty-six first-place gold awards were decided during the judging at the Wyndham ...

Coex for Success

(Magazine)

June 29, 2003, ... technical advantages are sufficient to propel coextrusion growth.” Oliver notes the recent appearance of a hybrid container that is a multilayer coated paperboard. “We are seeing this round container ...