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Broaden Print Client Base with More Materials

(News Eclips)

January 07, 2009, KBA North America’s Genius 52 UV press allows customers to broaden their client base by printing on a variety of paper, board, plastics (including lenticular surfaces), PVC, styrene, polyethylene, static-cling, ...

Reduce & Reuse

(Extrusion Coating)

November 30, 2008, ... global competitors is small, and the market structure will not change significantly in the immediate future. North America leads in supply of gable-top cartons and polyethylene(PE)-coated boards for ...

Web Exclusive: Slitting Film

(Archive)

November 11, 2008, ... account the extensible nature of many of the materials in question. To run plastic (flexible) materials such as polyethylene and polypropylene at commercially acceptable speeds and to high quality, ...

Door to Door QC

(Coating/Laminating)

September 30, 2008, ... coatings, and reactivated low- and high-temperature heat/solvent. Substrates range from polyester, polyethylene, and polyvinyl chloride (PVC) films, to foils, textiles, and other exotic materials. “It' ...

Adding Capacity

(Flexography)

September 30, 2008, ... polypropylene (PP), polyester (PET), saran-coated PET, metallized PP, polyethylene, and coated paper. Slitting is accomplished on a 60-in. Ashe slitter, and 13 bagmaking machines from Hudson-Sharp and ...

Film Converting: Luminit Films Shape Light

(Substrates)

September 30, 2008, ... Those diffusers adhere to a variety of polyethylene and polycarbonate films up to 20 in. wide in thicknesses from 0.005-0.125 in. The converting equipment uses high-precision rubber rollers from Abba ...

UV/EB Inks Are Suitable for Laminated Structures

(Inks/Coatings/Primers)

September 30, 2008, ...  Starting at the bottom of Figure 1, the substrate — usually polyethylene terephthalate (PET), oriented polypropylene, polyethylene, or a metallized film — acts as a surface to accept the printing. It ...

US Plastic Film Demand to Exceed 16 Billion Pounds

(News Eclips)

August 12, 2008, ... as well as opportunities in film products such as pouches and modified atmosphere packaging (MAP). The leading film will remain low-density polyethylene (LDPE), accounting for almost two-thirds of the ...

P-S Tape Protects Calendering & Extruding Rollers

(News Eclips)

July 22, 2008, ... it a cost-efficient option for coating rollers in the extrusion coating industry and other roller applications.” It is now being used to wrap rollers that produce polyethylene coatings and laminations, ...

Edible Markers

(Special Reports)

June 30, 2008, ... all of the supply chain's vulnerability. Melamine was used to give a false protein report while ethylene glycol was substituted for glycerol. So is it possible anti-counterfeit technology can be used as ...

Dyne Levels Part 2

(Process Management)

June 30, 2008, ... coating. A primer is chosen that will provide a high surface energy for good adhesion to the film. Some primers bond chemically to the substrate. An example would be polyethyleneimine, which is a cationic ...

Exopack Sells Newmarket Film Business

(News Eclips)

June 23, 2008, ... in Newmarket, ON, Canada. For more than 50 years, Newmarket has been supplying high quality single and multi-layer polyethylene films to customers involved in package converting operations, form-fill-seal ...

PE Hot Melt Adhesive Is Easy to Run

(News Eclips)

May 29, 2008, ... The premium case and carton polyethylene hot melt adhesives are said to be fast setting, to offer excellent paper and paperboard substrate adhesion, and to have exceptional heat-resistance machining and ...

Emerging Nations

(Flexpack)

April 30, 2008, ... (PP)/ethylene vinyl alcohol (EVOH)/polyethylene (PE) and others use PP/EVOH/PE. In the UK, polyvinyl chloride (PVC) is being used. Although there are still a large volume of multilayer films used, there ...

Film Approved for Food, Pharma Use in Japan, EU

(Archive)

April 09, 2008, Grayling Industries reports the polyethylene film it uses to manufacture some of the company's industrial packaging liners has been approved ATLANTA, GA | Grayling Industries reports the polyethylene film ...

Certifiably Clean

(Bag Pouch)

March 31, 2008, ... convert polypropylene/low-density (LD) and linear LD polyethylene (PE)/high density PE materials from 10-100 microns. Fisher says production speed was a priority when choosing the Mamata because “it had ...

Quality Time

(Gravure)

March 31, 2008, ... adhesive lamination of oriented polypropylene (OPP)/ink/adhesive/metallized OPP/adhesive/polyethylene (PE). Solvent-based inks and solvent- and water-based adhesives are used. Printing is on a Schiavi ...

AIMCAL Elects New Board

(News | New Products)

March 19, 2008, ... New York, a position he has held since rejoining the company in 2004. An expert in barrier substrates, he has developed many products based on coextruded, coated and/or metallized polyethylene terephthalate. ...

No-Wait Welding

(Coating/Laminating)

February 29, 2008, ... polyethylene (PE), polypropylene (PP) and polyvinyl chloride (PVC) sheets for use primarily as covers and liners in agriculture, construction, landfill applications, and marine markets. Integra purchased ...

Metal Is in the Mix

(Metallizing)

February 29, 2008, ... polypropylene (BOPP)/ink/adhesive/metallized BOPP/adhesive/2.25-mil modified low-density polyethylene (LDPE). Unlike traditional pouch-in-carton packaging, this metallized structure uses less packaging ...