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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 ...

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 ...

the PLACE

(Magazine)

March 31, 2007, ... Other additives to include oxygen scavengers may sometimes improve the barrier. The leading “old” high barrier resins are still preferrable in packaging applications. Recent improvements in EVOH — thermal ...

What's Ne

(Magazine)

February 28, 2007, ... ACGIH safety guidelines for UV exposure. PFFC-ASAP 403 Measure Oxygen and Leak Rate Mocon, Minneapolis, MN; 763/493-6370; mocon.com The bench-top Pak Check Model 840 Package Integrity Test ...

the PLACE

(Magazine)

December 31, 2006, ... or dissimilar substrates used in flexible packaging. Having an adhesive layer that can also provide oxygen barrierproperties is very desirable in flexible packaging applications. The potential to combine ...

Converting Industry News

(Archive)

November 07, 2006, ... the question facing Dr. Wolfgang Decker, general manager at Vast Films, Darlington, PA, in producing metallized films. Some products require an oxygen-free barrier, others need a barrier that is moisture-free, ...

Converting Industry News

(Archive)

September 17, 2006, ... retortable barrier packaging; Besela films; oxygen scavenging technology; eco-efficiency; natural plastics; RFID; shelf life; PA6 in food packaging; and ultra-barriers. According to InnoPlast, the symposium ...

The Place

(The Place)

August 31, 2006, ... to estimate the oxygen and moisture barrier of flexible pouch packaging. A series of experiments compared the practical barrier of pouches. Foil was the control compared with metallized oriented polypropylene. ...

A Communication from the PLACE Div. of TAPPI

(Magazine)

May 30, 2006, Effects of machine direction orientation on the moisture and oxygen barrier properties of HMW-PE films, novel high performance collation shrink film, choosing the right cure mechanism for UV curable laminating ...

A Communication from the PLACE Div. of TAPPI

(Magazine)

April 29, 2006, Influence of electron beam on some polymeric substrates used in flexible packaging; polymer processing additives and melt fracture in blown film, die geomotry considerations; adding oxygen barrier to laminating ...

Metallizing Makeover

(Magazine)

March 30, 2006, ... all Celplast production has continuous on-line monitoring across the web, off-line optical density and roll hardness measurements, and full roll traceability. The lab contains state-of-the-art oxygen ...

Cut With Glass

(Magazine)

February 27, 2006, ... films are valued for their moisture barrier properties and are formed with a nonpolar surface. Polyolefins are wax-like materials with no oxygen or polar species in the polymer. While the wax-like ...

A Communication of the PLACE div. of TAPPI

(Magazine)

February 27, 2006, ... means and distributions. Actual composition of the base sheets greatly determined the direction and magnitude of the effects. The highest oxygen and moisture barrier OPP film design out-performed metallized ...

A Communication from the PLACE Div. of TAPPI

(Magazine)

January 30, 2006, ... demands while reducing their overall costs in line. Some flexible packaging applications for dry powder, liquid packaging, lidding, and medical /pharmaceutical applications are highly oxygen or moisture ...

MOCON Announces Seminar Series

(Archive)

January 30, 2006, ... at the end. Subjects and dates are as follows. Date Seminar Title and Topics Feb. 8 Oxygen Transmission Rate Testing ASTM D-3985 and F-1307 provide the background for this seminar describing oxygen ...

A Communication from the PLACE Div. of TAPPI

(Magazine)

July 30, 2005, Calcium carbonates for polyolefin extrusion coating applications, rheology of glass-fiber-filled polypropylene melts, non-invasive oxygen measurement using fluorescence technology and its implacation for ...

New Products

(Magazine)

April 29, 2005, ... Oxygen Barrier Zimmer Industries, Hawthorne, NJ; 800/225-0108; zimmerindustriesinc.com Microperforating a single ply of material and laminating it to a nonperforated ply creates allows the economical ...

A Communication from the PLACE div. of TAPPI

(Magazine)

January 30, 2005, ... of packaging applications. Executive Summary Can You Finally Get Foil Barrier Properties With a Metallized Film? by Dante Ferrari, Celplast Metallized Products Application: Using a new high oxygen ...

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 ...

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. ...