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European Conference Draws Large Audience

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September 30, 2001, ... width of a web. A papermaker will also include basis weight and moisture with caliper as a measure of profile. Some say that a web with baggy lanes has a poor profile. Bagginess is a variation of machine ...

Materials

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September 30, 2001, ... barrier to moisture and flavor taint and a high degree of puncture resistance, thereby prolonging shelf life, co. reports. Tape Allows Fewer Roll Changes Tesa Tape, Charlotte, NC; 704/554-0707; tesatape.com ...

Vacumet Makes Metallizing Dreams Come True

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August 31, 2001, ... customers, each roll is sealed in a moisture-resistant plastic. McGarel recalls a large shipment of wrapped rolls sent to a customer in Europe. “The rolls arrived with sea salt on them. We don't know how ...

Antimicrobial Additives and Coatings for Food Packaging

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May 31, 2001, ... provide greater shelf life for packaging. Providing physical protection as well as moisture and oxygen barrier is a given. With today's quality demands, that may not be enough. Packaging engineers are ...

Materials

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May 31, 2001, ... growth. Films Offer High Moisture Barrier Klöckner Pentaplast of America, Gordonsville, VA; 540/832-3600 Pentapharm COC coextruded films are said to offer cost-effective, high-moisture-barrier properties ...

Materials

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April 30, 2001, ... plain or surface-printed applications on horizontal packaging machines. Said to provide excellent machinability over wide temperature ranges, along with good moisture barrier performance. Other reported ...

Converting Industry News

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April 29, 2001, ... shelf life, the mfr. says. The substrate is engineered with a variety of barriers and laminations that provide strength as well as protection from odor, moisture, grease, and other contaminants. The ...

Water-Based Ink Adhesion and Web Temperature

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March 31, 2001, ... case, as the coating coalesces and forms a moisture barrier, the coating entraps the volatile amines, which exist in the form of salts in the ink. Although you can minimize this by placing this sample ...

Narrow Web New Products

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March 31, 2001, ... said to provide strength over the grid and flexibility to fit around the complex curves of the plastic deodorant top. Co. says it provides an excellent barrier that eliminates moisture transmission, which, ...

Materials

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March 30, 2001, ... moisture and oxygen barrier performance, superior metal adhesion, and excellent resistance to flex cracking. Adhesive Stands Up to High Temperatures National Starch & Chemical Co., Monroe, NJ; 800/797-4992; ...

There Are Many Reasons for Packaging Peculiarities

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January 31, 2001, ... moisture, or other contaminants. Other food products must have a packaging material that allows them to breathe. Certain industrial items must use a laminate material that will handle heavy, large, or ...

Products

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January 31, 2001, ... technology (NIR) reportedly allows for the drying of inks on substrates without the barrier—a sealed outside layer of ink—formed by IR or warm air drying. According to co., this allows for the moisture ...

Innovative Problem-Solving: Advances in the Industry

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January 31, 2001, ... than a decade, but it could never be brought to commercialization because it has a fatal flaw: Oxygen and moisture will ruin it. Yet, the OLED display is much brighter and sharper than the inorganic light-emitting ...

Converting Industry News

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November 29, 2000, ... windshields. The film must be free of moisture and contaminants to guarantee a defect-free windshield, so it is a challenge to protect this film during shipment of the 2,000-lb rolls to glass manufacturers. ...

Converting Industry News

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October 31, 2000, ... is added, the excess air is extracted, and the shroud is sealed to the base sheet. The foil materials used reportedly are tough in construction for durable handling and have the lowest known moisture vapor ...

Materials

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October 31, 2000, New from: AdLamCo. Inc., H.B. Fuller Co., Kraton Polymers, Metallized Products Inc., Proma Technologies, Russell-Field Paper Co., Rohm and Haas Co., Sun Chemical Ink, and Unifoil Corp. Holographic Paper ...

Conference Features New Networking Opportunity

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October 31, 2000, ... compostable. With the advent of biodegradable moisture-proof coatings, they will provide a fully compostable moisture proof membrane. In their paper on "Barrier Properties of EVOH at Low Temperatures ...

Battle of the Materials Is on for Blister Packaging Market

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September 30, 2000, ... atom for a chlorine one, imparting significantly different basic properties. It is a superb moisture vapor barrier, is quite expensive, and is widely used in combination with PVDC. It can be extrusion ...

Materials

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September 30, 2000, ... combine good moisture vapor and high oxygen transmission rates with high impact strength and balanced high tear strength. Strong seals can be achieved at low temperatures with a minimal impact on overall ...

New Packaging Technology Will Star at Pack Expo

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September 30, 2000, ... Packaging of Low-Acid Products , Art Guenter, Serac, and Kelley McGregor, Gillispie, Natrel. Disposable, Two-Way Package Moisture Management Systems , Bob Esse, Humidi-Pak Corp. and Esse Technologies, ...