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Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

January 30, 2004, ... helpful throughout the planning and implementation process.” Davis-Standard is supplying the complete system, which incorporates three Davis-Standard single-screw extruders; two Coperion co-rotating ...

6 Sigma Success

(Tapes)

December 30, 2003, ... of process steps that utilize an Egan Machinery extruder/laminator, a 32-in., two-color Inta-Roto printing press, 12-in. coaters from Acumeter, along with etching, welding, and several other proprietary ...

What's New in Narrow We

(Tapes)

November 30, 2003, New products for the narrow web converting industry from: American Leistritz Extruder Corp., Health Custom Press, and Independent Machine Co. Machinery, Accessories, Services, Materials Get Consistent ...

International Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

November 30, 2003, ... group working there was a major reason for our decision to go with Battenfeld Gloucester.” The line features Contracool extruders; a 16-in. Optiflow LP die with internal bubble cooling; UltraCool air ...

Sniffing Out the Sources of Packaging Odors

(Materials)

November 29, 2003, ... addition to acrylic odors, some odors can be due to the photoinitiators or their decomposition products. Some odor problems can originate in the converting process itself. For example, extruders can ...

What Works Best?

(Magazine)

October 31, 2003, ... customers need.” Running a pilot lab is nothing new to Equistar, which installed its first lab line in 1968. Today, Equistar's pilot lab operates four pilot lines: a Battenfeld Gloucester seven-extruder ...

Cast Film Lines for Barrier Films

(The Place)

October 31, 2003, ... width of 1800-2500 mm. Cast Film Line Modern cast film lines comprise the following specific components: Gravimetric dosing equipment Extruder Feedblock Sheet die Chill ...

Film Supplier Klockner Pentaplast Acquires Greenway Plastics, Slated to Open Brazil PVC Plant

(News | New Products)

October 21, 2003, ... its proprietary product formulations and trade names. Greenway Plastics Industries (formerly owned by Orangeburg, NY-based Innovative Plastics Corp.) is the sole North American extruder of BAREX acrylonitrile ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

September 30, 2003, ... customers with sales, technical, and regional rework services; and it will accelerate the Extruder UpTime die-system development program. All Extruder UpTime innovations will be direct responses to customer ...

International Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

August 31, 2003, ... are produced using encapsulation to prevent this barrier resin from contacting the metal surfaces of the feedblock and die. The line, CXL-7210, includes nine extruders, seven for each of the seven layers ...

Active Packaging

(Flexpack)

July 31, 2003, ... to food packages can take several forms. The agents may be added, for example, at the extruder when the film or coextrusion is produced. High temperatures and extruder shear can cause deterioration in ...

European Meeting Presents Large Technical Program

(Magazine)

July 31, 2003, ... twin screw extruder with tailored processing steps to achieve optimum coating properties. In “Producing Co-Extruded High Barrier Heat Shrinkable Packaging Films,” James D. Stobie of Macro Engineering and ...

New Committee Secretary

(Magazine)

July 31, 2003, ... Conference on Flexible Packaging, LatinPack in Brazil, and LatinPack in Mexico City. At the PLACE Conference in 2002, he was the developer and session chairperson for the technical session entitled “Extruder ...

A New Enhanced Polyethylene for Extrusion Coating and Laminating

(The Place)

July 31, 2003, ... the neck-in performance of the LLDPE at higher line speeds. The polymers with higher melt indices could be drawn down further as one would expect. Figure 1 shows the motor load and extruder head pressure ...

Cyclic-Olefinic Copolymers as Non-Migrating, Polymeric Slip Additives in LDPE Cast Films

(Magazine)

June 30, 2003, ... domain size with lower temperature providing a larger domain size. Experimental The experimental work for this study examined two different COC materials in LDPE blends using a 25-mm extruder and evaluating ...

Coex for Success

(Magazine)

June 29, 2003, ... the composite structure and the thinness of the layer.” Andy Christie, principal consultant of Optex Process Solutions, notes coextrusion has three disadvantages: It requires a more sophisticated extruder ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

June 29, 2003, ... a business unit of SPI, and the California Film Extruders and Converters Association (CFECA). All allied trade associations will be working together on this issue, SPI reports. The legislation, which ...

Industry Responds to California Plastic Bag Tax

(News | New Products)

May 12, 2003, ... Industry Inc. (SPI). According to SPI, the coalition is being led by the Film and Bag Federation, which is a business unit of SPI and the California Film Extruders and Converters Association (CFECA). WASHINGTON, ...

Products

(Magazine)

April 30, 2003, ...  Lung-Meng Machinery (USA) Inc., Miami, FL; 305/591-3388; lung-meng.com Five-layer blown film coextrusion line comprises two 55-mm 30:1 L/D extruders; two 25-mm 30:1 L/D extruders; and one 42-mm 30:1 ...

New Products for the Converting Industry

(Magazine)

March 31, 2003, ...  Erema North America, Ipswich, MA; 978/356-3771; erema.net Coax recycling system combines a single-shaft shredder with a single-screw extruder into one system said to be ideal for many materials that ...