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DuPont & ADM Partner on Biobased Pilot Facility

(Flexpack)

April 30, 2018, ... life. With that better barrier, companies will be able to design significantly lighter weight packages, lowering the carbon emissions and significant costs related with shipping carbonated beverages. CONTACT ...

Siemens Launches Servo Drive

(Controls)

April 29, 2018, ... plastics processing, as well as life sciences and digital printing.  “The Sinamics S210 focuses on highly dynamic motor axis control, while the connected controller, for example the Simatic S7-1500 or ...

Dow Launches Solvent-Borne Adhesive

(Coating/Laminating)

February 07, 2018, ... and sustainability benefits without sacrificing performance.” Sustainability benefits include a long pot life and product enables customers to run solvent-borne adhesives at 50% or more solids. They ...

Optima Machine Produces Transdermal Patches

(Flexpack)

January 14, 2018, The TDC 125 machine produce transdermal patches and oral film strips in lab scale amounts or small batches GREEN BAY, WI | Optima Life Science offers the TDC 125 to produce all current transdermal ...

Tangent Shear Slitting | Reduce Edge Defects in Shrink Sleeve Film

(Slit)

December 04, 2017, ... Too narrow of a blade may result in reduced blade life and diminished slit quality. Figure 10. In Figure 10, you see typical blade profiles for tangent shear slitting. They range from nearly square ...

AWA Reviews Sessions on Release Liners

(Label/Tape)

November 25, 2017, ... valid second-life use of spent release liner. General manager of the inventor company Eric van Pottelbergh said that the RecuLiner concept is based on dry grinding of paper-based liner, mostly without ...

DowDuPont Wins Sustainability Awards

(Trends/Management)

October 21, 2017, DOW FILMTEC FORTILIFE and ROPAQUE NT-2900 Opaque Polymer are among the winners of the Business Intelligence Group’s Sustainability Awards MIDLAND, MI | DowDuPont Materials Science reports three breakthrough, ...

Flexible Packaging | Fighting Food Waste

(Flexpack)

September 25, 2017, ... extended shelf life technologies as solutions that packaging suppliers can use to combat food waste.4 A large part of the responsibility to fight food waste falls on packaging suppliers and brands. ...

Coating Matters | Balancing Slot Die Design

(Coating/Laminating)

July 18, 2017, ... rather than read his column, titled "Coating Matters | Balancing Slot Die Design," click on his podcast below: balancing-slot-design-voice Wouldn’t life be great if complex things could be reduced to ...

Honeywell Process Solutions Acquires Nextnine

(News | New Products)

June 17, 2017, ... a supplier of automation control, instrumentation, and services for the oil and gas; refining; pulp and paper; industrial power generation; chemicals and petrochemicals; biofuels; life sciences; and metals, ...

X-Rite Acquires ColorCert Software Assets

(News | New Products)

March 12, 2017, ... packaging strategy to deliver integrated workflow solutions that streamline color management across the entire packaging lifecycle from concept to final product,” says Adrián Fernández, VP, PantoneLIVE, ...

Sticking With It | What Is the Value of Technical Meetings?

(Sticking With It)

October 25, 2016, ... he touched upon were reduced product life-cycle, economic instability, and increased competitive pressures. In summary the ASC meeting offered the opportunity to learn more about new chemistries and ...

WACKER Expands US-Based R&D

(Coating/Laminating)

October 13, 2016, A new R&D center will open in Ann Arbor, MI, to pursue business and product development for the North, Central, and South America regions MUNICH, GERMANY | WACKER is expanding its research and development ...

Study Says Corrugated Stops Bacteria

(Carton Box)

October 11, 2016, ... could affect shelf-life and the quality of fruit. After both corrugated and plastic surfaces were inoculated, the cell loads of the microorganisms were checked over time. Scanning electron microscope ...

On Print | drupa 2016 Lived Up to Expectations

(On Print)

June 20, 2016, ... now becoming relatively commonplace even though dominating only a very few niche markets. Analog continues on its lifelong price performance curve, keeping a cap on the aspirations of die-hard digitalists. ...

Sticking With It | Pressure-Sensitive Adhesives 101

(Coating/Laminating)

March 04, 2016, ... adhesives have many advantages, key amongst them ease of use. Instead of dealing with messy glue pots and worrying about adhesive shelf life and application details, now the end-user can simply dispense ...

MarketResearch.com Acquires The Freedonia Group

(News | New Products)

February 09, 2016, ... provides businesses, nonprofit organizations, and academia a single source of authoritative market research stretching across multiple industries, from consumer goods and services to life sciences, construction, ...

Coating Matters | Optical Films Require Multiple Layers

(Coating/Laminating)

September 30, 2015, ... and increased battery life in all electronic gadgets, optical films have become the leading edge coated product in the converting industry today. But what makes these coatings unique? Many of the optical ...

Show Preview | FTA’s 2015 Info*Flex and Forum in Perfect Harmony

(Print)

April 08, 2015, ... 412) will show its line of R/back cushion mounting tapes that eliminate gear banding and offer improved print quality, improved adhesive properties, and longer plate life. Sun Chemical (Booth 117) will ...

NeuDrive Acquires Portfolio from CPI Innovation Services

(Materials)

January 26, 2015, Acquisition includes organic semiconducting material patents and FlexOS trademark, plus licenses relating to organic thin-film transistor technology   REDCAR, UK | NeuDrive Limited has completed ...