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Sticking With It | Hot Melt PSA Primer

(Coating/Laminating)

March 26, 2018, ... with no water or solvent to evaporate, allowing for rapid coating. So, let’s start by listing the major components of a hot melt pressure-sensitive and how they contribute to the performance of the adhesive. ...

Poly Ploys | Why Wine 'Cries

(Tom’s Poly Ploys)

March 26, 2018, ... helping preserve the paint while giving an attractive appearance. In the video seen here, as alcohol evaporates at the topmost part of the film formed on a wine glass, droplets are formed. The droplets ...

GSE Adds Features to Ink Dispensing Program

(News | New Products)

March 20, 2018, ... bucket is automatically grounded. GSE’s new vapor extraction unit sucks emissions from solvent inks as they evaporate when the ink is dispensed on the Colorsat Slim and Compact dispensers. On the Slim, ...

Flexible Packaging | PPT Earns Top Prize in FPA Awards

(Flexpack)

March 05, 2018, ... to flexible packaging. Here is a look at the top winners.   highest achievement award The Highest Achievement Award is evaluated by the judges as possessing overall packaging excellence, significant ...

Sticking With It | PSA Acrylics Primer

(Sticking With It)

February 12, 2018, ... blend also will impact the polymer formation. Emulsions are usually evaluated for particle size; this measures the distribution of the polymer particles. Particle size can have a very dramatic effect ...

BillerudKorsnäs Launches Medical Paper

(News | New Products)

January 26, 2018, ... catheters, etc., will benefit from the extra performance offered by SteriKraft Protect AR, company says. The new product is fully approved under the relevant sections of EN868 and ISO 11607-1. The  paper ...

BOBST Metallizer Handles Many Films

(Coating/Laminating)

January 24, 2018, ... of heat between the substrate and the drum. Reportedly, the powerful, robust evaporation source with a staggered ceramic boat arrangement provides excellent coating uniformity and also incorporates easy ...

Readers Choice | Top 10 New Products of 2017

(Flexpack)

November 29, 2017, ... contact requirements for use with all food types under Condition of Use E. It also complies with relevant requirements of the Swiss Chemicals Ordinance SR 813.11 (ChemO) and European Regulation No. 10/2011 ...

AWA Reviews Sessions on Release Liners

(Label/Tape)

November 25, 2017, ... session, a review of market trends and applications and in the second session an evaluation of sustainability and recycling achievements and challenges.  AWA president and CEO Corey Reardon opened the ...

Brand Packaging | Foils & Laminates Deliver Outstanding Benefits

(Print)

November 01, 2017, ... products but also their experience, attention, and skills. Experience in luxury products and packaging are used to spark innovation and aid brand evolution, identifying relevant trends and specifying the ...

Medical Patches | Faustel Meets Challenge of Hydrogel Pad Production

(Coating/Laminating)

October 23, 2017, ... nonwoven coming down from the top. To conserve floor space for Katecho, Faustel designed the custom unit with unwinder and rewinder at floor level and the coating and cooling sections in an elevated ...

Cosmo Films Launches Low Noise Tape Film

(Label/Tape)

August 13, 2017, ... manufacturers to adhere to low decibel levels and therefore low noise tapes become significantly relevant. The low noise tape film also take significantly less release force as compared to a normal tape ...

Blown Film | Which Applications Are Most Suited for 7/9/11 Layers? Part 3

(Flexpack)

August 02, 2017, ... vinyl acetate (EVA) is substituted for the mLLDPE layer in this previous structure, the film can be used as a thermoformable cheese tray, shown in Figure 3C. The point made here is that more layers offers ...

B&W MEGTEC Launches Drying Lab

(Coating/Laminating)

July 30, 2017, ... and capital.” The new bench-top laboratory system enables the company’s process engineers to track rates of evaporation for water and organic solvents, along with determining the drying time required ...

FSEA Announces Gold Leaf Winners

(Die-Cutting)

June 26, 2017, ... competition evaluates submissions that utilize a wide range of specialty finishing techniques, from foil stamping and embossing to specialty coating, film laminating, laser cutting, die-cutting, and cold ...

Blown Film | Which Applications Are Most Suited for 7/9/11 Layers? Part 2

(Flexpack)

June 05, 2017, ... The Dow Chemical Co. 4. "Rethinking Technology Innovations for High Barrier Applications", Kurt Freye, Reifenhäuser Kiefel Extrusion 5. "Properties, Processing and Handling of EVALTM EVOH Resins", Medlock, ...

Trends/Management | Managing Change for Continuous Improvement in a Regulated Industry

(Trends/Management)

May 30, 2017, ... the FDA evaluated the mindset in the pharmaceutical industry as follows: Static manufacturing can create, or is a result of, a mind-set that “the product is approved and validated – do not change.”3 ...

Spinnaker Partners with ARMOR USA for Testing

(Label/Tape)

May 21, 2017, ... our ribbon testing to be relevant for the entire value chain of the thermal transfer printing industry,” says Olivier Moreau, product manager at ARMOR USA. “By combining our range of thermal transfer ribbons ...

Blown Film | Which Applications Are Most Suited for 7/9/11 Layers? Part 1

(Flexpack)

May 03, 2017, ...  5. "Properties, Processing and Handling of EVALTM EVOH Resins", Medlock, G., AIMCAL Fall Technical Conference, October 2014 6. "The Influence of Sealant Modulus on the Bending Stiffness of Multilayer ...

Mica Adds Photovoltaic Array for Clean Energy

(Coating/Laminating)

May 01, 2017, ... else we can be doing to further reduce our carbon footprint,” says Bill Giannetto, site compliance coordinator and process engineer. “By evaluating our other sales offices and manufacturing processes, ...