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AGI-Shorewood Technology Makes Packages Shine

(Flexpack)

February 20, 2012, ... freedom to apply highly reflective packaging design elements. Uses an in-line process to offer a cost-effective alternative to metallized polyester, metallized transfer, or hot foil stamping. Reflective ...

Polymer-Based Primer Coatings for Plastic Films Are Laser Printable

(Coating/Laminating News)

November 22, 2011, ... by flexographic or similar printing presses. Suited for label manufacturing, the coating can be applied to metallized polyester films to provide durability and the look of expensive metal name plates or ...

ALOX Coater & CPP Film Line Debuting in Egypt

(Flexpack News)

July 13, 2011, ... oxide on packaging films to attain extremely high moisture and gas barrier properties that rival those of aluminium foils and metallized films. The levels of barrier available from ALOX-coated films are ...

AIMCAL Awards: Canisters Blow Away Competition

(Metallizing)

March 31, 2011, ... three-piece canister with a sidewall featuring ultraviolet (UV) coating/UV inks/heat-seal coating/8-ga metallized polyethylene terephthalate (mPET)/0.016-in. solid bleached sulfate (SBS)/0.75-mil extruded ...

AIMCAL Awards: Canisters Blow Away Competition

(Coating/Laminating)

March 17, 2011, Winning entries are recognized for excellence in AIMCAL's annual Vacuum Metallized or Coated Product, Sustainability, and Technology of the Year Competitions During the Assn. of Intl. Metallizers, Coaters ...

Lidding Films Seal Well

(Flexpack)

January 31, 2011, LumiLid printable and metallized polyester lidding films seal to a variety of tray substrates. Said to maintain seal integrity while offering an excellent LumiLid printable and metallized polyester lidding ...

People Making News in the Converting Industry

(Trends/Management)

July 31, 2010, Weijia Zhang joins the sales and marketing team at Celplast Metallized Products, Toronto, ON, Canada, as business development engineer. Tom Brooker becomes Weijia Zhang joins the sales and marketing ...

Paperboard Packaging: Packed for Style

(Carton Box)

June 30, 2010, ... clean window that is said to maintain holding integrity. The box is printed with tinted UV metallic inks to create a metallized effect with optimum sheen and a high rub formula for ink and coating to ...

Toray Plastics Announces Commercialization of European Plant

(News | New Products)

May 12, 2010, ... that Toray Films Europe has achieved its first commercial volumes of bi-axially oriented polypropylene (BOPP) high-barrier metallized film for packaging applications.   In September 2008, Toray Films ...

Member directory

(Magazine)

April 30, 2010, ...  Camvac Ltd. Canslit Inc. Catalina Graphic Films Inc. Catbridge Machinery CBC Coating Inc. Celplast Metallized Products Ltd. Chase Corp. Circonix Technologies LLC Clemson Univ., ...

Multipack Juices It Up

(Metallizing)

March 31, 2010, ... Intl. (GPI), Marietta, GA, has walked away with the Assn. of Industrial Metallizers, Coaters & Laminators' AIMCAL Metallized Product of the Year Award, named in honor of PFFC's former publisher, Peter Rigney. ...

AIMCAL Awards

(Coating/Laminating)

March 21, 2010, Graphic Packaging Intl. juices up AIMCAL’s metallized competition by winning the Peter Rigney Product of the Year award for its 10-count multipack carton for Disney juice pouches For two consecutive years ...

Flexible Packaging: Narrow Web's Leverag

(Flexpack)

March 21, 2010, ... but has a greater ability to seal through light powder contamination in the seal area. • PPMOPP (paper/poly/metallized oriented PP): Suitable for applications requiring additional package stiffness ...

What Is the Right Tension?

(Web Lines)

November 30, 2009, ... you should consider the yield or break point of each layer. It doesn't matter if the polyester film survives tensioning if the metallized coating on it cracks and crazes into an esthetic or nonfunctional ...

Bobst Schiavi Press Brings 'New Wave" of Capabilitie

(News | New Products)

October 04, 2009, New Wave Converting, Inc., continues to execute a new growth strategy on the West Coast, with the addition of an eight-color Bobst Schiavi EF 4040 CI gearless sleeve press. FONTANA, CA | New Wave Converting, ...

WHAT'S NEW PRODUCT

(New Products)

September 30, 2009, ...  Film for Balloons LumLife film enables balloon converters to create brilliant, printable, metallized polyester balloons that do not stress crack and maintain seal integrity during the manufacturing ...

WHAT'S NEW PRODUCTS: April 200

(New Products)

March 31, 2009, ...  PET Films Suited For Laminating A new line of 48-ga (12-micron) brushed metallized PET films has a chemically treated print surface said to be excellent for laminating to paper and board. The company ...

Examining Recession Resistance

(Editorial)

January 31, 2009, ... market, particularly for films, with flexible packaging opening more opportunities for metallized barrier coatings. Prices for forest-stewardship-certified papers and boards will continue to rise at the ...

What's New Product

(New Products)

November 30, 2008, ... | 276-627-3332 | www.solutia.com PFFC-ASAP 401 Cold Foil Optimized for UV Luxor/Alufin KPW-OP monochrome, metallized cold foil for web printing improves the ability to overprint with UV-cured inks. ...

Adding Capacity

(Flexography)

September 30, 2008, ... polypropylene (PP), polyester (PET), saran-coated PET, metallized PP, polyethylene, and coated paper. Slitting is accomplished on a 60-in. Ashe slitter, and 13 bagmaking machines from Hudson-Sharp and ...