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Personal Care Items & Packaging

(Magazine)

February 27, 2006, ... shiny look that can “cry out” to a customer, “Buy me!” A gloss coating or a laminated structure involving a glossy film also attracts consumers in a similar way. Manufacturers of materials that go into ...

Wider Expectations

(Flexpack)

February 27, 2006, ... time—it took six months of nothing but R&D just to be able to get a nice clean laminated sheet, and then the cold seal came along [a few] years later. We had our struggles with it initially, but with our ...

Circonix Partners with Propack

(Archive)

February 04, 2006, Circonix Technologies, a systems integrator in the converting, film, and web conveyance industries, welcomes ProPack Services as its Southeast sales representative. PRESS RELEASE RINGWOOD, NJ—Circonix ...

The PSA Process

(Magazine)

January 30, 2006, ... adhesive products are a combination of several components coated and then laminated together to form a package or PSA construction. It is commonly a combination of facestock (for a label) or carrier/backing ...

Take Control

(Magazine)

January 30, 2006, ... for that test blimp. Later this year, a full-size test blimp will be prepared for complete testing.” To build the envelope, “we developed an ultra-thin laminated material,” Smith says, “that consisted ...

A Communication from the PLACE Div. of TAPPI

(Magazine)

December 30, 2005, New die designs and advancements in automatic die controls for improved efficiencies in film production, and how sealant film choice can affect a laminated structure’s properties. Providing practical information ...

The RFID Buzz Gets Louder

(Flexpack)

November 29, 2005, ... at the food supplier. If something unusual happened further down the supply chain with the laminated material, vital information relating to the situation would be available immediately. Although RFID ...

Measuring Force

(Magazine)

October 30, 2005, Learn what adhesion is, how it is measured, what a test really measures relative to the true adhesion between two surfaces, how adhesion affects the performance of the final laminated or multilayer product, ...

First Glance

(Magazine)

September 29, 2005, ... they’re all “green”). Shiny & Strong Carton manufacturer Oracle Packaging joined forces with Filmtech, a metallized film producer, to develop a new laminated board product for the beverage carrier ...

Seafood is Served

(Magazine)

September 29, 2005, ... quickly and evenly, while leaving it moist and tender. The material, called MicroRite, consists of aluminum and polyester laminated to a paperboard base (suppliers are proprietary). Graphic Packaging ...

Mastering RFID

(Archive)

September 29, 2005, ... then delaminated from the release liner and routed to the inserter module. A roll of transponders is unwound and fed into the vacuum applicator and cut-off unit. The vacuum cylinder also serves as the ...

Converting Industry News, Part 1

(Magazine)

September 29, 2005, ... laminated cells, or “quilts,” that are designed to expand when exposed to microwave energy. On expansion, the quilts come into contact with the food products. This hot surface does double duty, driving ...

Mastering RFID, Part 2

(Archive)

September 29, 2005, ... on the facestock are relaminated with the release liner. Ionizer 8 neutralizes the charge where relaminated facestock with inlays and liner pass through the final nip in the finishing section of the press. ...

Extrusion Coating Evolves

(Magazine)

August 30, 2005, ... “[In the past] extruders were not flexible machines. They were dedicated to one or two main jobs. Nowadays converters ask for flexible machines with the capability of producing many types of laminated ...

Without Boundaries

(Magazine)

August 30, 2005, ... aircraft insulation film and developed a special film-laminated sailcloth used by windsurfers and yachts competing in the America’s Cup races. Lamart also has worked with NASA in the past, developing ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

August 30, 2005, ... used mainly for the production of laminated films and the slitting of other multilayer films used in the packaging of food and tissue products. Says Ari Olkinuora, production director, “Proslit was ...

Revamped Ask AIMCAL

(Archive)

August 13, 2005, ... to any one of nine subject areas: Coated/Laminated Films, Papers, Wovens; Metallized/Vacuum Coated Films, Papers; Coating Equipment/Accessories; Vacuum Coating Equipment/Accessories; Slitting/Rewinding/Die-Cutting; ...

Reporter Clips

(Magazine)

July 30, 2005, ...  Once a substrate has been printed and had all value added, it can be laminated with film or cold foil and be varnished to protect the artwork. The board then is fed to die-cutting stations where the ...

Globally Speaking

(Flexpack)

June 29, 2005, With just a single plant located in Oaks, PA, Global Packaging may not appear to be a global reckoning at first glance, but the company’s diverse flexible packaging solutions, which include laminated and ...

One Stop Shop

(Flexpack)

May 30, 2005, ... laminated with reverse-printed holography. Finally, a PE laminate layer is added for heat sealing. These pouches are produced on equipment located in the clean room, ensuring a virtually dust-free product. ...