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Green Is Global

(Archive)

January 31, 2009, ... usage. Here the main drivers today are the need for improvements in barrier performance for clear and opaque vacuum-coated films and for the high-impact aesthetics achievable with metallized films. Growth ...

Meeting the Sustainability Challenge Without Compromising Barrier Performance

(Archive)

January 28, 2009, ... main drawbacks are its poor temperature resistance and poor barrier properties. Two possible solutions to the barrier issue are to apply an SiOx clear barrier layer or a metallized barrier layer to ...

Web Exclusive: Slitting Film

(Archive)

November 11, 2008, ... foil will be increasingly substituted by vacuum-metallized plastic films with, for example, retortable pouches and cans made out of plastic and foil as an alternative to metal cans. Stretch films will ...

Tag & Label Awards: Tricks of the Trade

(Label/Tape)

October 31, 2008, ... Created for the product's launch, the label was entered in the Digital Printing-Food & Beverage Products category. Printed on silver metallized pressure-sensitive paper to simulate gold, the image is ...

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 ...

UV/EB Inks Are Suitable for Laminated Structures

(Inks/Coatings/Primers)

September 30, 2008, ...  Starting at the bottom of Figure 1, the substrate — usually polyethylene terephthalate (PET), oriented polypropylene, polyethylene, or a metallized film — acts as a surface to accept the printing. It ...

Quality Time

(Gravure)

March 31, 2008, ... adhesive lamination of oriented polypropylene (OPP)/ink/adhesive/metallized OPP/adhesive/polyethylene (PE). Solvent-based inks and solvent- and water-based adhesives are used. Printing is on a Schiavi ...

Toray Plastics to Lead Toray Industries' Expansion in Europe

(Archive)

March 02, 2008, Toray Industries is establishing Toray Films Europe S.A.S. (also known as TFE) in Rhone-Alpes, France, for the production of Torayfan biaxially oriented polypropylene high-barrier metallized film. NORTH ...

Metal Is in the Mix

(Metallizing)

February 29, 2008, ... in honor of PFFC's late publisher and staunch supporter of the organization) is Grafo Regia, Monterrey, Mexico, for a 1-kg metallized bag for Harina Tortillas Selecta tortilla mix. The film, produced for ...

Demographic Demands

(Flexpack)

February 29, 2008, ...  Moderating gains will be competition from metallized PP and PET films and newer clear grades of these films with barrier properties approaching those of foil. Still, robust growth for retort and stand-up ...

Barrier Wanted

(Coating/Laminating)

January 31, 2008, ... film products (see bottom figure). Growth will embrace both clear and metallized coatings. Capacity Investment Capacity expansions continue as newer technologies are required to meet ever-higher demands ...

Melamine Revisited

(Coating/Laminating)

January 31, 2008, Barrier-coated flexible packaging, both metallized and clear, is a much-favored choice among brand owners and retailers across the globe today. It offers Barrier-coated flexible packaging, both metallized ...

In the Zone

(Flexpack)

June 30, 2007, ... (PE), high-density PE, polypropylene (cast, oriented, and biaxially oriented), PET (clear or metallized), nylon, and foils. Explains Zgoda, “We have the mindset that if we have the equipment, and we ...

A Developing Story

(Magazine)

May 31, 2007, ... and expertise in controlling coat weights and tensions enable it to process a variety of materials, including foils, acetate, metallized film, woven cloth, nonwoven cloth, tissue, paper, paperboard, and ...

the PLACE

(Magazine)

May 31, 2007, ... ve 7/24 müşteri desteği ile Pinco casino online Türkiye'de kazandıkça eğlenin! Şimdi Katılın! For example, PVdC coatings can be applied to metallized PET films to give not only improved barrier but also ...

Sweets Success

(Magazine)

April 30, 2007, ... the remaining solventless laminator. Metallization is done in-house with equipment supplied by Galileo and Applied Films. Most metallized film is used in-house; however, a significant amount is exported ...

the PLACE

(Magazine)

April 30, 2007, ... lamination of a printed metallized polyester film to a LLDPE sealant layer. Laminated films are important in producing flexible packaging. The lamination after formation should remain adhered. When ...

Product Protection

(Technical Reports)

February 28, 2007, ... (PP), barrier metallized PP, or aluminum foil lamination packaging constructions. Indeed, among the three choices, a flat sheet of aluminum foil is essentially impenetrable by moisture and oxygen, as ...

Metallizing Matures

(Magazine)

January 31, 2007, Innovative use of metallized products will drive future growth as traditional markets begin to slow. Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Contract Servicing Directory | New Products Metallizing Matures The ...

Pouch Progress

(Flexpack)

December 31, 2006, ... typical construction is overprint varnish/ink/PET/adhesive/metallized PET/adh/PP. This “green” technology development is solventless with no volatile organic compounds and has an extremely fast cure ...