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DuPont Packaging & Industrial Polymers Ups Price for Elvax Resins

(News | New Products)

May 25, 2010, DuPont Packaging & Industrial Polymers announced a price increase of $0.05/lb on all grades of DuPont Elvax ethylene vinyl acetate (EVA) resins WILMINGTON, DE | DuPont Packaging & Industrial Polymers announced ...

Sustainability Is the Buzz at PLACE Conference

(News | New Products)

May 05, 2010, ... and its future in consumer packaging markets.  Other “green” topics ranged from how to meet sustainability objectives without compromising performance to sugarcane-based polyethylene and more. The PLACE ...

Narrow Web's Leverag

(Label/Tape)

March 31, 2010, ... layers with the ability to protect the print using polyethylene terephthalate (PET) or oriented polypropylene (PP) films. Flexible Packaging Defined Flexible packaging uses a combination of materials ...

Gravure Printing: Print Comes To Life

(Label/Tape)

March 31, 2010, ... printed on polyethylene terephthalate glycol (PETG) LV film using solvent-based inks and heat-activated adhesive on a Rotomec press. “The black type and diagrams are very nice, the vignettes are outstanding, ...

BEST OF SHOW INTERNATIONAL

(Magazine)

March 31, 2010, ... Thailand, makes a grand impression on the judges with its vibrant Nescafé 3-in-1 Espresso Roast bag, which was printed with eight colors on a polyester /linear low-density polyethylene film lamination ...

Multipack Juices It Up

(Metallizing)

March 31, 2010, ... metallizer, GPI supplied the 100% recycled paperboard substrates for the reverse-printed, metallized Composipac Z-Flute folding carton. DuPont Teijin Films, Hopewell, VA, supplies the 48-ga polyethylene ...

AIMCAL Awards

(Coating/Laminating)

March 21, 2010, ... 100% recycled paperboard substrates for the reverse-printed, metallized Composipac Z-Flute folding carton. DuPont Teijin Films, Hopewell, VA, supplies the 48-ga polyethylene terephthalate (PET) film for ...

Flexible Packaging: Narrow Web's Leverag

(Flexpack)

March 21, 2010, ... to protect the print using polyethylene terephthalate (PET) or oriented polypropylene (PP) films. Next page: Flexible Packaging Defined Previous page: Why Pursue Flexible Packaging? Flexible ...

Breaking Boundaries

(Flexpack)

February 28, 2010, ... nylon/polyethylene laminated bottom web, which is sealed to coated Tyvek. The package is said to provide improved manufacturing efficiencies twofold. The customer was able to improve sterilization techniques ...

Reduce Gravure Waste

(News | New Products)

February 10, 2010, ... devised for the demonstration a job with different design complexities to be printed on 25 micron polyethylene (PE) film. PE film is reputedly the most difficult substrate to print in gravure because it ...

Paper or Plastic?

(Archive)

November 30, 2009, ... outlet for release liner in South America, offering particular opportunities for growth in film liner, particular polyethylene and polyproplyene. Specialty linered p-s tapes are also a growth segment, ...

Films 101: Back to Basics

(Archive)

November 30, 2009, ... biaxially oriented polypropylene (BOPP), polyethylene (PE), polyvinyl chloride (PVC), polyethylene terephthalate (PET), and polystyrene (PS). One of the fastest growing and most economical films, BOPP ...

Flying High

(Flexography)

November 30, 2009, ... low-density and high-density polyethylene, oriented polypropylene, paper, and laminates at speeds up to 1,457 fpm (450 mpm). The Imperia model is equipped with a flying sleeve system that decreases ...

FPI Says Green Packaging Trend To Grow in Demand

(News | New Products)

November 08, 2009, ... material--toward polypropylene and polyethylene. Other trends reported include foodservice operators offering lower priced items to attract cash-strapped consumers; new sales opportunities that tap ...

Static, Be Gone!

(Static-Beat)

October 31, 2009, ... or PET films as they run through a coating, lamination, or converting process. Static charge also accumulates on the surfaces of insulating rollers covered with polyurethane, silicone rubber, or EPDM (ethylene-propylene-diene) ...

Engineer's Playgroun

(Coating/Laminating Main)

October 31, 2009, ... and polyethylene weaving. Sherer highlights Optimation's modeling capabilities, which allow companies to use shorter test runs to make projections on long-run success. “We have licensed the development ...

Hot Cup Combos

(Substrates)

October 31, 2009, ... delivered by specialized companies supplying commercial cup machines. Traditionally, hot cups were made out of thicker-caliper paper layered with polyethylene (PE) inside, leaving the outside of the ...

Bobst Schiavi Press Brings 'New Wave" of Capabilitie

(News | New Products)

October 04, 2009, New Wave Converting, Inc., continues to execute a new growth strategy on the West Coast, with the addition of an eight-color Bobst Schiavi EF 4040 CI gearless sleeve press. FONTANA, CA | New Wave Converting, ...

PTI Recycling Formed To Sell rPET System Globally

(Substrates)

July 31, 2009, Holland, Oh | PTI Recycling Systems has introduced globally a compact, modular system to produce food-grade, recycled polyethylene terephthalate (rPET) Holland, Oh | PTI Recycling Systems has introduced ...

Seeing Clearly

(Coatings)

July 31, 2009, ... coater/laminator purchased in 1995. Overall, CLC also specializes in thin, optically clear, solvent-based polymer coatings on high performance polyethylene terephthalate (PET) films. “I do think the ...