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BASF Increases Prices

(Archive)

June 05, 2006, BASF increases prices for its coating and polymer immediates in North America. PRESS RELEASE FLORHAM PARK, NJ—Effective July 1, 2006, or as contracts allow, BASF will increase its list and off-list ...

First Glance

(Magazine)

May 30, 2006, ... of a press-to-close zipper. The zipper is manufactured with a proprietary blend of pro-oxidant catalysts and the company’s standard PE copolymer. Zipper is capable of breaking down through physical or ...

Eastman Offers Solution for Isoprene Shortage

(Archive)

May 20, 2006, ... XXIX technical seminar. The study, entitled "A New Generation of Hot-Helt Tape Formulations, Using Blends of SIBS and SBS Block Copolymers and New Hydrocarbon Tackifying Resins," includes performance data ...

Topas Receives Leadership Award

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March 22, 2006, ... the technology life cycle and by innovating leading-edge concepts the company has pioneered." Cyclic olefin copolymers (COCs) are crystal clear amorphous materials based on cyclic and linear olefins. ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

February 27, 2006, ... Addison, IL, is a new option for thermoform/fill/seal applications in medical and frozen food end-use markets. The product is a proprietary copolymer blend said to offer outstanding toughness and clarity, ...

About Cold Seal Adhesives

(Magazine)

December 30, 2005, ... without the protection afforded by an antioxidant. Recent technology involves use of copolymers of vinyl acetate and ethylene blended with natural rubber latex. In some instances, these copolymers find ...

A Communication from the PLACE Div. of TAPPI

(Magazine)

October 30, 2005, ... layers of a three-layer blown film whose inner layer was made by an ethylene-octene LLDPE Z-N copolymer on haze. A small amount of LDPE greatly improved total and surface haze of the film. Attempts to ...

Air Products Polymers Raises Prices

(Archive)

October 27, 2005, ... in raw material and energy costs. The company also has raised prices for vinyl acetate homopolymer and copolymer emulsions; all ethylene, vinyl chloride-based emulsions; and acrylic-based copolymer ...

A Communication from the PLACE Div. of TAPPI

(Magazine)

September 29, 2005, ... How do you assure that you process a high MI acid copolymer and a fractional melt linear LDPE with equal consistency? How do you establish an optimum extruder temperature profile? Do you increase back ...

A Communication from the PLACE Div. of TAPPI

(Magazine)

May 30, 2005, ... quality and production efficiency. For many operations, shorter production runs and more varied products complicate this challenge. How do you assure that you process a high melt index acid copolymer and ...

Notable & Flexible

(Flexpack)

February 27, 2005, ... The pack consists of a 3-mil PE copolymer film precision perforated to provide controlled porosity for effective EtO sterilization while maintaining product cleanliness. The perforated film, which reportedly ...

Communication from the PLACE div. of TAPPI

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February 27, 2005, ... metallocene polyethylene with an EVA copolymer gives a coextruded film that outperforms conventional monlayer and coextruded films in several different stretch hood and shrink hood applications. A stretch ...

A Communication from the PLACE div. of TAPPI

(Flexpack)

December 30, 2004, ... aluminium foil even for a low methacrylic acid copolymer. For a closer look at the differences in de-bonding failure mechanism between hard and soft foil, high and low methacrylic acid, and changes ...

EVALCA Doubles EVOH Capacity

(Magazine)

November 30, 2004, ... double its production capacity, increasing it by 53 million lbs/yr. The company reports this is a response to the strong and growing worldwide demand for EVOH copolymer resin. Production capacity following ...

Converting Industry News, Part 2

(Magazine)

November 29, 2004, ... TX—Eval Co. of America (EVALCA) will double its production capacity, increasing it by 53 million lbs/yr. The company reports this is a response to the strong and growing worldwide demand for EVOH copolymer ...

Dow Opens First Commercial Plant for Versify Plastomers and Elastomers

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November 18, 2004, Dow announced the successful start-up of the first commercial plant for its new family of specialty propylene-ethylene copolymers, Versify Plastomers and Elastomers, in Tarragona, Spain. PRESS RELEASE ...

Discoloration Resistant Polyolefin Films

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September 29, 2004, ... other color critical applications have also used this approach such as polypropylene homopolymers and copolymers. Although the “phenol free” systems have consistently solved most discoloration problems, ...

Eval Co. of America Expanding Resin Production

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September 02, 2004, ... this expansion "is a response to the strong and growing worldwide demand for ethylene vinyl alcohol copolymer resin (trade named EVAL)." Production capacity following the expansion, which is scheduled ...

Materials

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August 30, 2004, ...  FlexoHybar CO barrier films from Flexopack (Koropi, Greece) use a Topas cyclic olefin copolymer layer to gain high modulus, transparency, and improved moisture barrier, says company. This layer eliminates ...

A Communication from the PLACE Div. of TAPPI

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June 29, 2004, ... The papers will cover the use of waxes, stabilizers for hot melt products, and styrene block copolymers. A paper by John A. Harvey of ExxonMobil Chemical Co. entitled “Market Trends in Packaging, Non-Wovens, ...