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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 ...

Coex for Success

(Magazine)

June 29, 2003, ... of oxygen, carbon dioxide, water vapor, etc.” “Handling resins that could not run on their own” is a characteristic of coextrusion that David Timm, VP of Charter Films, considers an advantage. Disadvantages ...

Fit for Use

(Materials)

April 30, 2003, ... Encyclopedia of Polymer Science and Engineering, Vol. 7, 2nd ed., ed. J.I. Kroschwitz. John Wiley & Sons Inc., 88-106. 2Mount III, Eldridge, M. and John R. Wagner. 2001. “Aroma, Oxygen and Moisture ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

April 30, 2003, ... to include low leaker rates; puncture and abrasion resistance; outstanding shelf life characteristics; and excellent oxygen and moisture barrier properties. Acquisitions Sun Chemical Takes an Interest ...

AIMCAL Winners Pulsate with Panache

(Corrugated)

March 31, 2003, ... In comparison, the metallized BOPP offers a 4% yield improvement over traditional parchment paper and provides much higher oxygen barrier (344 ml/m2/day at atmospheric pressure versus 30,000 ml/m2/day ...

Materials

(Magazine)

February 28, 2003, ... adhesive laminations. Reportedly offers excellent moisture and oxygen barriers, superior puncture resistance, and high yield compared to foil. Uncoated Paper Reduces Show-Through Weyerhaeuser Fine ...

Why Do Flex-Pack?

(Flexpack)

February 28, 2003, ... some issues — it can't have exposure to oxygen.’ Things like that,” adds Miller. One of the largest flexible package converters in the world today, Bemis obviously is survival-oriented; Miller says the ...

Controlling Color Change in Adhesives and Coatings

(Magazine)

February 28, 2003, ... Avoiding or minimizing such exposure is the best way to ensure an adhesive or coating will maintain the same initial color over an extended time. High temperatures, UV light, and materials such as oxygen ...

Pouches on the Cutting Edge

(Magazine)

February 28, 2003, ... it developed for Elite cookies. That pouch, which is constructed of polyester, polyvinylidene chloride (PVDC), and polyethylene (PE) laminates that inhibit oxygen and water transmission, features a straight ...

Atmospheric Plasma

(Magazine)

January 31, 2003, ... plasma is created at much lower voltage levels and temperature. Substrate Effects Corona converts the substrate surface from a non-polar state to a polar state. Oxygen molecules are then free to bond ...

Technology Improvements and Emerging Markets Drive Growth in Metallizing

(Magazine)

January 31, 2003, ... in production, but worldwide 1.6- to 2.4-meter machines are more common.” Machine width isn't, of course, the only thing metallizers are looking for. “They are asking for increased moisture and oxygen ...