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Breakin' Bounds in Barrier Films

(Magazine)

August 30, 2004, ... future experience of successful industry players will be shaped by a keen awareness of where products are in their life cycle, the changing competitive landscape, and timely execution of sound business ...

Binary Blends of EVA and Metallocene Catalyzed Ethylene-a-Olefin Copolymers & Their Film Properties

(Magazine)

June 29, 2004, ... polyethylenes have significantly lower seal initiation temperatures than LLDPE due to their sharper endotherms and lower melting points. They can therefore compete with EVA as low temperature sealants. ...

How to Influence Gloss and Friction Coatings or Cast Films by the Chill Roll Surface Design

(The Place)

May 30, 2004, ... on chill rolls are necessary to be competitive. The advantages of modern textures in production are obvious. With modern surfaces, a converter can increase production speeds. The possibilities for different ...

Tekni-Films Intros Ultra-High Barrier Film for Blister and Packaging Applications

(Flexpack)

May 27, 2004, ... or PETG to produce the highest-barrier clear blister film commercially available anywhere, adds the material supplier. States the company: This specialty film lamination has applications where ultra-high ...

UV Flexo Press Competes with Gravure

(Magazine)

March 31, 2004, ... press frame temperature fluctuations. GEW says the press is enabling Casia to compete in gravure markets not only in the Czech Republic but in Poland and Slovakia as well. Supplier Information:  ...

Novel Method for Testing the Grease Resistance of Plastic-Based Dry Pet Food Packaging

(The Place)

March 30, 2004, Dry pet food packaging needing high resistance to staining from or migration of fat content requires rapid and reliable standardized tests for development and quality control purposes. New tests show high ...

BOPP Film: How Real Is the China Threat?

(Flexpack)

September 30, 2003, ... market demand and often it appears, without an awareness of the competitive environment. Fortunately for world producers, the investment program, which has increased Chinese production capacity by 157% ...

Pliant Corp. Introduces New Films

(News | New Products)

July 15, 2003, ... advantage giving converters the opportunity to compete in the growing retort market [here in the US]." The Revolution Continues... Pliant extends its Revolution family of engineered stretch films with ...

At NPE 2003 SPI Promotes Petition to Offset the "China Factor

(News | New Products)

June 24, 2003, ... SPI’s Lori Anderson announced the launch of a "Plastics Manufacturing Matters!" petition. "At issue—and at risk—is plastics processing, the nation’s fourth-largest manufacturing industry," reads SPI’s letter ...

Remote Proofing: Have Lunch This Week with Fujifilm WGMT

(News | New Products)

June 01, 2003, ...  need to make an informed decision about your future proofing and workflow needs as well as how to remain competitive in the marketplace," says the Lunch Break Event sponsors. "Remote proofing is quickl ...

Mitsubishi Ups PET Price

(News | New Products)

September 19, 2002, A major polyester (PET) film producer, Mitsubishi Polyester Films LLC (Americas), announces a price hike for all PET grades, effective mid-September 2002. GREER, SC, USA—Mitsubishi Polyester Film LLC (Americas) ...

(News | New Products)

September 17, 2002, ... can view the machinery that runs their products. Keeping current of the latest packaging machinery and materials will enable them to adapt their products and gain the competitive edge in the converting ...

Standing the Test of Time with Paper, Film & Foil CONVERTER

(Magazine)

August 31, 2002, ... what we know today as PFFC or Paper, Film & Foil CONVERTER. Throughout its numerous name changes and well into the 1980s, PFFC was the “bible” of the industry with little competition to parallel its news ...

Flex-Pack Faces Up to Global Competition

(Magazine)

April 30, 2002, ... technically competent domestic converters; Growing consumption of packed products, especially prepared convenience foods; Increasing disposable incomes among pockets of (typically) urban populations; ...

Would You Eat That? Some Readers Say No to Edible Film

(Magazine)

February 28, 2002, ... all excellent reasons to make an edible package very unappealing to the appetite. The correspondent appreciated that finding a better way to eliminate packaging waste is laudable. He as well as the ...

Web Line Knowledge Offers a Competitive Advantage

(Magazine)

January 31, 2002, Web lines are the backbone of the converting industry the equipment used in converting paper, film, foil, and other webs into valued product. In this Web lines are the backbone of the converting industry ...

Delivering Digital: CTP Carries Flexo Printing to Competitive Quality

(Magazine)

August 31, 2001, ... industry's increasing ability to compete with gravure and offset. And platemaking suppliers certainly aren't the only ones touting flexo's improved quality status: HDF™ (High Definition Flexo) is a supplier ...

SUBSTRATES REPORT: From Resins to Finished Product - Oil, Gas, Resin, Film

(Magazine)

June 30, 2001, ... for the petrochemical and plastics manufacturing businesses. When you crack ethylene, you also end up with other by-products or co-products of the process. One of those co-products is propylene, which ...

How One Converter Mastered Sheet-Fed Films

(Magazine)

March 31, 2001, ... employees. Our SYN process has become a scientific formula based on which supplier of film we are running and which press we're on. Many of our competitors have attempted to run synthetic material and report ...

The Effects o Comonomer Type on the Blown Film Performance of LLDPE Resins Made Using a Metallocene Single-Site Catalyst

(Magazine)

January 31, 2001, ... K. Krishnaswamy, Phillips Petroleum Company; and Syriac J. Palackal, SABIC. Email the author(s) at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Following is an expanded summary of a complete paper available on the TAPPI web site ...