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FPA Publishes E-commerce Streamlined LCA Case Studies

(News | New Products)

January 18, 2021, ... or poly mailers, are made of LDPE, which can be recycled with grocery bags and other films as part of the store drop-off program. These materials can qualify for the How2Recycle® store drop-off designation ...

TOPAS Advanced Polymers’ Cyclic Olefin Copolymer (COC) Earns Certification as Recyclable Material in Europe

(News | New Products)

November 01, 2020, ... valuable material in post-consumer LDPE, mixed polyolefin, and polypropylene recycling streams. Consequently, PE and PP formulations modified with COC can be considered fully recyclable in their respective ...

Dow Introduces Its First Recycled Plastic Resin for Shrink Film Applications in North America

(News | New Products)

October 27, 2020, ... supply PCR film pellets to Dow. Since securing this reliable, quality supply of PCR, Dow has been evaluating new linear low-density polyethylene (LLDPE) and low-density polyethylene (LDPE) products using ...

SABIC Launches Innovative TF-BOPE Film for Frozen Food Packaging

(News | New Products)

October 19, 2020, ... composite packaging materials on new and existing Syntegon machines with films made of SABIC’s BOPE, brand owners benefit from even more material and cost savings.” TF-BOPE film made of SABIC® LLDPE ...

Plastics, Packaging and the Environment

(Flexpack)

June 29, 2020, ... can are PET, LLDPE and OPP. Source Reduction While PCR may not be viable for a given application, another way to reduce overall waste is to reduce the overall amount of packaging that a product requires; ...

Plastics, Packaging and the Environment

(Flexography)

April 22, 2020, ... can are PET, LLDPE and OPP. Source Reduction While PCR may not be viable for a given application, another way to reduce overall waste is to reduce the overall amount of packaging that a product requires; ...

European Recycling Markets Reel From Coronavirus

(News | New Products)

March 22, 2020, ... low density polyethylene (R-LDPE) they'll use LDPE simply to [be able to] supply [their goods],” a major packaging manufacturer said. Coupled with this, there are concerns about staff shortages as the ...

Is it the End for Non-Recyclable Plastic Packaging?

(Flexpack)

March 02, 2020, ... (LDPE), ELBA to convert the finished reels into pouches, and Constantia Flexibles to produce metallized high barrier LDPE standup pouches.  As well as its state-of-the-art Competence Centers, BOBST brings ...

Multi-Solution Approach Key to Achieving Sustainability Goals

(Extrusion Coating)

February 24, 2020, ... more sustainable liquid cartons made with Dow’s renewable-based PE resins. Dow’s renewable-based low-density polyethylene (LDPE) resins, DOWTM LDPE product range, are used to coat the cardboard as well ...

Flexible Packaging, a Converting Dynamo

(Converting Perspectives)

December 01, 2019, ... a challenge. So, using less and wasting less in production are critical while other solutions are sought. Plastics Offer Myriad Features Plastics used in packaging include PET, HDPE, LDPE, PVC, PP ...

TIDI Relies on Enercon for Custom & Standard Corona Treating Solutions

(News | New Products)

December 01, 2019, ... TIDI’s new system was properly sized for their applications. For the 1600mm wide LDPE blown film line, Enercon specified 6” ceramic covered ground rolls. The older system had large rolls weighing 800 lbs ...

Are We on the Road to Achieving Truly Sustainable Packaging?

(Flexpack)

November 11, 2019, ... Alpine for the production of MDO LDPE, Elba to convert the finished reels into pouches, and Constantia Flexibles to produce metallized high barrier LDPE standup pouches. The joint project team is working ...

SOMA and Vetaphone Strengthen Working Partnership

(News | New Products)

October 20, 2019, ... 620 to 1450mm and in eight or 10 colors depending on the model, the Optima presses use sleeve technology to print solvent, water-based, or UV/LED cured inks on a variety of substrates including LDPE, HDPE/PP, ...

Corona and Plasma – The Different worlds of Surface Treatment

(Surface Prep)

July 03, 2019, ... and Imide, depending on the application intended.  Take printing for example: with LDPE Corona will cater for solvent, UV and water-based inks up to a level of 55 dyne/cm, and similarly will be sufficient ...

Riyadh Orders BOBST Press

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February 04, 2018, ... flexo press Both presses are used for printing films (LDPE, BOPP, CPP, PET), foil, laminates, shrink sleeves, PVC twist wraps, metallized twist wraps and wax paper, wraparound labels, gift wraps, shopping ...

Readers Choice | Top 10 New Products of 2017

(Flexpack)

November 29, 2017, ... is also the case when comparing 4-ply PET/foil/PET/LDPE to 3-ply PET/DURAMET/LDPE adhesive laminates. These results reportedly have been proven on different laminators with several commercially available ...

IIMAK Offers Longer Thermal Transfer Ribbon

(Flexpack)

November 27, 2017, The longer-length NETFlex+ XL near-edge ribbon for flexible packaging is said to aid productivity AMHERST, NY | IIMAK announces the NETFlex+ XL ribbon said to provide the same strong performance as ...

Ampacet Announces Synthetic Tissue

(Flexpack)

November 05, 2017, ... can be provided separately (Ampacet product code 1000072-N). This product is recommended for use in conjunction with HDPE, LDPE, and LLDPE films with Paper 2.0 additive but can also be used to increase ...

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

(Flexpack)

August 02, 2017, ... as to their performance and cost-saving ability. From a simple cost standpoint, for example, whereas the structure in Figure 1A (as shown in Part 1) is an LLDPE/Tie/EVOH/Tie/LLDPE structure, a seven-layer ...

BOBST Open House Celebrates Gravure

(News | New Products)

June 09, 2017, ... gravure press, running an 18-micron LDPE substrate. Company says throughout the run, the tenure of the register was extremely accurate, making the press ideal to print sensitive substrates at high speeds, ...