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Eastern European Converter Continues Pioneering Ways

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August 31, 2000, ... rapidly expanded to low-density polyethylene (LDPE), OPP, and multilayer barrier film manufacture (1992). Today, Chemosvit is a privately owned holding company with 18 individual subsidiaries ranging ...

Converting Industry News

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August 31, 2000, ... to Increase 6% CLEVELAND, OH, USA—PET resin demand in the US is forecast to increase 6.2% annually to 6.6 billion lb in 2003, valued at $4.1 billion, according to Polyethylene Terephthalate Resins, a ...

Study Assesses the Future of Release Liners in Europe

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August 31, 2000, ... and process technology are bringing real improvements in margins. Technological advances are essential for the new generation of release liner base materials—polyester, polyethylene, polypropylene, ...

What Is the Role of Additives in Water-Based Inks?

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August 31, 2000, ... are PE and PP waxes, silicones, fatty acid amides, and fluorocarbon waxes such as tetrafluoroethylene (PTFE). These lubricants differ greatly in their effectiveness, rate of migration, and temperature ...

Converted Flexible Packaging: Trends to Watch

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July 31, 2000, ... which have generated new opportunities. Polyethylene will remain the dominant film, although significantly better growth is anticipated for polypropylene. Ethylene vinyl alcohol films will exhibit the ...

Press Adds Flexibility of Film to Paper Operation

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June 30, 2000, ... "A lot of those products are being made by companies that buy their paper packaging from us but purchase polyethylene and other plastic materials from other suppliers for their consumer product line."  ...

Snack Food Packaging: 100 Years and Counting

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June 30, 2000, ... Packaging Award. 1940s Snack consumption rises during WWII era, due, in part, to more working members per family. Polyolefins developed: polyethylene (PE) and polyvinylidene chloride (PVDC, ...

Outlook 2000 and Beyond: The State of the Trade

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June 30, 2000, ... specialty-type products. The report notes that in each of the top four resin sections—polyethylene, polypropylene, polyvinyl chloride, and polystyrene—there are fewer than five companies with significant ...

When Employees Become Owners... A Happy Ending

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May 31, 2000, ... He notes the plant runs low-density polyethylene primarily and consumes in the neighborhood of 55 million lb of LDPE resin per year. But, he adds, the plant extrudes other resins and has substantial laminating ...

It's Definitely a Bull Market for High-Performance Film

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May 31, 2000, ... properties. Some of the major high-performance films include those made from polyethylene terephthalate (PET polyester), nylon, polycarbonate (PC), polyimide (PI), and fluoropolymers. In 1999 Frost ...

Decorative Films Served by Multilayer Structure

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May 31, 2000, ... such as metallocenes, other polyethylenes, ethylene vinyl alcohol, nylons, PPs, and K-Resin SBC. "We like to use K-Resin because is has high gloss, stiffness, and heat resistance," says Planeta. "It plays ...

Latest Gravure Technology Launches Converter into Fray

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April 30, 2000, ... explains Bell. "At first, the two worked under a licensing agreement with the 3M company to use the name ScotchPak." Bell says that in 1957 3M developed ScotchPak, a polyester and extrusion PE (polyethylene) ...

Bagmaking Operation Is There When Customers Call

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April 30, 2000, ... Apollo's business has been mostly in low and linear low-density polyethylene products. However, the company has worked with HDPE and expects to be producing more products in both standard and high molecular ...

French Fry Fascination Brings Big Business to Bonar

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March 31, 2000, ... speeds to 1,500 fpm and were designed to apply polypropylene and polyethylene to natural or bleached kraft papers. Equistar, Dow, Nova, and Westlake supply the plant's resin, and Bonar buys its paper from ...

Electrically Heated Rollers Are Top Technology Choice

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March 31, 2000, ... said to offer several advantages over conventional corona or flame treatment. Use of specialty gases and electrode design enables the plasma system to activate surfaces such as polytetrafluoroethylene, ...

Flexible Packaging Strategies for 2002: In Summary

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March 31, 2000, ... being substituted for ionomer or ethylene vinyl acetate as a sealant. While fresh sausage had experienced a decline after concerns of high fat and with fewer people eating breakfast, the introduction of ...

System Keeps Static Buildup Problems Under Control

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February 29, 2000, ... casting liner, and release liner products. The facility runs a wide variety of substrates, including biaxially oriented polypropylene, polyethylene, polyester, polyvinyl chloride, polystyrene, and poly-coated ...

Converter Plays Key Role in Mercosur Trading Group

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February 29, 2000, ... with printed polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP) bags, ISMA soon developed the oriented PP market and began producing laminations. Spritzer's background in PE and PP marketing, combined with Uruguay' ...

High-Barrier Packaging: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

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January 31, 2000, ... and it was much earlier than 20 years ago. "You can go back to the 50s, and companies such as Mill Print and Standard Packaging were starting to extrude polyethylene and then laminate to foils. Whenever ...

Clean Room Environment Makes Excellence a Priority

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January 31, 2000, ...  In the industrial films segment, textured and hard-coated polyethylene terephthalate and polycarbonate films are used by the electronics industry for membrane switches, touchscreens, LCD displays, and ...