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Unique Issues of Laminating Inks

(Magazine)

April 29, 2004, ... quality graphics with functional packaging characteristics. Moisture and oxygen barrier plus package protection could be designed into the construction. Laminating inks suitable for these structures ...

Products

(Magazine)

April 29, 2004, ... measure MVTR and OTR on a variety of flexible packaging structures, including flat films, laminates, and coextrusion. They feature company's Coulox coulometric-type sensor for oxygen and modulated IR for ...

Disposable DVD Requires More Than an 'Ordinary' Package Dea

(Flexpack)

April 04, 2004, Evatone is leveraging a customized Multivac machine and oxygen-scavenging film from Cryovac to produce packaging for “time-sensitive” movies. Evatone is leveraging a customized Multivac machine and oxygen-scavenging ...

Patent Pending

(Flexpack)

February 28, 2004, ... and a buried layer of PET to produce a structure that yields excellent oxygen and moisture properties. The use of frangible sealant technology is the backbone of the DelPouch concept as it allows Cardinal ...

What Is Cationic UV Technology?

(Magazine)

February 28, 2004, ... Oxygen can scavenge the free radicals by forming peroxides that inhibit or delay the free radical curing process. Cationic UV inks and coatings generate a photo-induced decomposition of a photoinitiator, ...

UV & Jet Inks: An Exciting Combo

(Materials)

January 30, 2004, ...  UV ink cure can be inhibited by oxygen, and inert gas can be used to overcome this phenomenon. Often nitrogen is used, but other inert gases can be used as well. The advantage of using inert gases is ...

Sniffing Out the Sources of Packaging Odors

(Materials)

November 29, 2003, ... of secondary odor that can be catalyzed by some metals. This auto-oxidation process can produce objectionable odoriferous by-products not evident immediately. This process requires the absorption of oxygen ...

Linebackers, Leashes, & Superman: A Look at Stress

(Magazine)

November 29, 2003, ... this level of footprint pressure. Exerting 100 PLI nip load over a 0.5-in. MD contact length will create 200 psi nip pressure. 1,000-10,000 psi — A compressed oxygen cylinder will hold 2,000 psi. Great ...

Film Supplier Klockner Pentaplast Acquires Greenway Plastics, Slated to Open Brazil PVC Plant

(News | New Products)

October 21, 2003, ... co. president Michael Tubridy, "allowing us to better serve the broad barrier requirements of our customers. The oxygen barrier, chemical resistance, and sealability of BAREX film offers a unique combination ...

Converter Panel Attracts Interest at Conference

(The Place)

September 30, 2003, ... The desiccant is also next to the product so that permeation through another layer does not delay the absorption activity. In his paper “A Systems Approach to Oxygen Scavenging Films,” Frank B. Edwards ...

Meeting the Need

(Materials)

September 30, 2003, ... is called ideal for food, dairy, lidding, coffee, personal care, pharmaceutical, board lamination, and electronic applications. The films reportedly provide excellent oxygen barrier properties as well ...

Producing Coextruded High Barrier Heat-Shrinkable Packaging Films

(The Place)

September 30, 2003, ... stability necessitating an annealing step for the film before winding. PA resins offer fairly good oxygen barrier, good aroma and flavor barrier, superior heat resistance, and good toughness and scuff ...

Products

(Magazine)

September 29, 2003, ... metallizers in the field as well as its own. Said to provide significant improvement in both oxygen and water barriers, system also reportedly allows some previously unmetallizable films to be metallized. ...

Pack Expo LV Venue for New Toray Films

(News | New Products)

September 07, 2003, ... hologram, delivering both point-of-purchase pop and brand protection. Clear Barrier Film Toray also will launch Barrialox, an innovative clear, metallized film that provides oxygen and moisture barrier ...

Adhesion of Coatings to Aluminum Foil

(The Place)

August 31, 2003, ... a continuous amorphous oxide layer forms immediately due to the reaction between oxygen and humidity from the environment and the freshly generated metal surface. During annealing at temperatures of approximately ...

Products

(Magazine)

July 31, 2003, ... foils, blister packaging, silicone oxygen substrates, surgical and hygienic membranes, and nonwovens. Measures water vapor transmission ranges from 0.001-10,000 g/m2/day. Map Nip Profiles in Real Time ...

Active Packaging

(Flexpack)

July 31, 2003, ... one in a range of active packaging technologies currently addressing the safe packaging of fresh foods. Other approaches include gas flushing, modified and controlled atmosphere packaging, oxygen scavenging ...

European Meeting Presents Large Technical Program

(Magazine)

July 31, 2003, ... industry. Materials In the sessions covering materials, Virginia P. Cushing and Bruce W. Foster of Mica Corporation discussed “How to Achieve High Bond Strength and Low Oxygen Transmission Rates with ...

Reporter Clips

(Magazine)

June 30, 2003, ... broad range of specifically formulated AGELESS oxygen absorbers address product and package characteristics to provide package freshness and assure consumer confidence over an extended shelf life, without ...

FTA Raises the Bar

(Magazine)

June 30, 2003, ... customer. At press time, ensure all suppliers are available for consultation. Peter Menzian (DuPont Imaging Technologies) offered data on how to eliminate oxygen depletion in analog platemaking. When ...