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What's New Products: March 200

(Magazine)

February 28, 2009, ...  PFFC-ASAP 411 Analyze Oxygen Rate with Ease The Ox-Tran Model 1/50 oxygen transmission rate analyzer offers an absolute coulometric method, built-in software to minimize user error, and automatic ...

Metallized Polyester Film Has Improved Bonding

(News Eclips)

February 04, 2009, Toray Plastics (America) offers LumLife MK61, a thin, high-barrier metallized polyester film manufactured with a proprietary metal adhesion process NORTH KINGSTOWN, RI | Toray Plastics (America) offers ...

Meeting the Sustainability Challenge Without Compromising Barrier Performance

(Archive)

January 28, 2009, ... independent of the base film gauge. This is proven in Figure 4, which shows oxygen transmission rate (OTR) and water vapor transmission rate [WVTR] values of three different polyethylene terephthalate ...

What's New Product

(New Products)

December 31, 2008, ... from the annually renewable resource corn starch, are fully biodegradable. A silicon oxide nanocoating combines high barrier protection against oxygen, water vapor, and other gases with superior optical ...

Shrink Bags Are Chlorine-Free

(News Eclips)

December 15, 2008, Curwood now offers Eco-Tite shrink bags for meats and cheeses OSHKOSH, WI | Curwood now offers Eco-Tite shrink bags for meats and cheeses. Bags are said to contain no polyvinylidene chloride and use 25%–33% ...

What's New Product

(New Products)

November 30, 2008, ... skin yet remove cleanly with no residue. Adhesives offer good oxygen and moisture vapor exchange to keep a chronic wound moist and accelerate healing. Said to be impermeable to liquids, bacteria, and viruses. ...

Global Study Addresses Barrier Films & Coatings

(News Eclips)

November 04, 2008, ... technologies of all barrier materials used in flexible packaging. The study focuses on materials that provide oxygen transmission rates from zero to 77.5 cc/m2/day (5 cc/100in.2/day) and/or moisture ...

Compostable and Biodegradeable Packaging

(News Eclips)

October 09, 2008, ... serves as a barrier to light, oxygen, and moisture. The outside cellulose layer is printed so that the eco-friendly water-based inks are trapped between the layers and ink can’t scratch off. The foil side ...

Door to Door QC

(Coating/Laminating)

September 30, 2008, ... thermal oxidizer, which treats volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and other air pollutants, removing the harmful air pollutants with oxygen and heat. In this environment the VOCs are converted to CO2, water ...

UV/EB Inks Are Suitable for Laminated Structures

(Inks/Coatings/Primers)

September 30, 2008, ... also acts as a functional barrier between the ink layers and the packaged goods. The functional barrier can prevent migration of species, especially organic materials, water, oxygen, and nitrogen. In ...

First Canadian Installation of KODAK FLEXCEL NX Digital Flexo System

(News | New Products)

September 16, 2008, ... Imaging Technology. Because the Thermal Imaging Layer is laminated directly to the plate, there reportedly is no issue with oxygen attack, enabling the formation of stable, full amplitude, flat top ...

Kodak Digital System Receives PIA/GATF InterTech Technology Award

(News | New Products)

August 21, 2008, ... Imaging Layer that is laminated directly to the plate, eliminating issues with oxygen attack and enabling the formation of stable, full amplitude, flat top dots on the plate. This dot structure reportedly ...

Sustainable Packaging for Specialty Meat

(Archive)

June 30, 2008, ... oxygen is immediately removed to preserve freshness, a critical step in the packaging process. At the same time, a layer of film locks in the container's controlled atmosphere. The container also features ...

Materials/Substrates: Custom Fit

(Substrates)

May 31, 2008, ... board has a shiny, metallic look achieved by applying a metallized BOPP on top of the board. Aluminum foil on the reverse side, the company reports, provides excellent barrier against humidity, oxygen, ...

Drying Part 3: Paste Inks

(Inks/Coatings/Primers)

March 31, 2008, This column will review the two primary drying methods of paste inks. Oil-Based Inks The main application of oil-based inks is in litho printing, primarily This column will review the two primary drying ...

Toray Plastics to Lead Toray Industries' Expansion in Europe

(Archive)

March 02, 2008, ... continue to bring new value-added high oxygen barrier and high moisture barrier film advancements to TFE as it develops them. Toray Industries expects to invest approximately $100 million in the project. ...

Melamine Revisited

(Coating/Laminating)

January 31, 2008, ... coatings, has self-healing properties, and retains its oxygen barrier properties in very high temperatures and humidities. Its oxygen barrier values compare with, and sometimes exceed, those achieved with ...

Functional Coatings Innovation from DSM

(Flexpack)

November 08, 2007, Stamicarbon BV (DSM Licensing Center) has launched Symphase Technology, an patented process for the creation of transparent oxygen barrier layers based on the vapor depostion of melamine. This technology ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

September 30, 2007, ... Sells OS Business DUNCAN, SC | Sealed Air Corp. has acquired Chevron Phillips Chemical Co.’s oxygen scavenging (OS) business, including production assets, patents, and other intellectual properties for ...

A Smarter Future for Labels

(Tapes)

August 31, 2007, ... least can stop the products from deteriorating before use. Labels, for example, that are oxygen- or ethylene-scavenging; moisture- or odor-absorbing; and those that are freshness, microbial growth, or ...