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Specialty Film Demand to Approach $7.3 Billion in 2010

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April 11, 2007, ... in meat packaging, which requires barrier films to maintain an optimum atmosphere inside the package. These opportunities will spur advances for plastic films such as ethylene vinyl alcohol, nylon and ...

Interactive CDs from Bayer Films

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November 20, 2006, ... nomenclature, and application examples. Users will understand the hierarchy of thermoplastic resins and the physical characteristics that separate them from other materials, such as acrylic. The CD also ...

Wayne Machine Delivers New Extrusion Film Technology

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November 05, 2006, ... Institute (AAPPI) in Danville, VA. The system is based on the new Yellow Jacket die technology that is capable of producing five-layer blown and cast plastic film in A-B-C-B-A and other configurations. ...

Emerging Technologies in Plastic Packaging Symposium

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October 01, 2006, Innoplast Solutions presents "Emerging Technologies in Plastic Packaging," to be held October 30-31, 2006, in Chicago. PRESS RELEASE Innoplast Solutions presents "Emerging Technologies in Plastic Packaging," ...

Emerging Technologies in Plastic Packaging Symposium

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September 23, 2006, Innoplast Solutions presents "Emerging Technologies in Plastic Packaging," to be held October 30-31, 2006, in Chicago. PRESS RELEASE Innoplast Solutions presents "Emerging Technologies in Plastic Packaging," ...

Toray Introduces New Printable Lidding Film

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August 22, 2006, PRESS RELEASE NORTH KINGSTOWN, RI—New FDA-compliant, heat sealable LumiLid XLS5 polyester lidding film from Toray Plastics (America) features an improved adhesion-promoting surface, said to offer excellent ...

Films Face Off

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June 29, 2006, ... Plastics (America)—PFFC-ASAP 310. torayfilms.com Steve Sargeant, PhD., is director, new business development, Toray Plastics (America), North Kingstown, RI, a manufacturer of PET and PP films for ...

Double-coated Adhesive Film

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June 20, 2006, ... plastics, metals, and high gloss paints. Dubfilm S1039 is said to be ideal for industrial assembly applications, such as nameplate bonding, temporary mounting, membrane switch attachment, and temporary ...

Applied Films Receives Innovation Award

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March 13, 2006, ICE (Intl. Converting Exhibition) honored Applied Films with its 2005 Innovation Award for Applied Films' Fabry Perot Filter, which produces color shift layers on plastic film by using electron-beam evaporation. ...

Plastic Suppliers Receives Environmental Excellence Award

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March 01, 2006, Plastic Suppliers has won the Flexographic Technical Assn.'s (FTA) Environmental Excellence Award in the category of Innovative Technology for its EarthFirst PLA film. PRESS RELEASE COLUMBUS, OH—Plastic ...

Reclying Plastic Materials

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June 20, 2005, Research and Markets’ report, Recycling of Plastic Materials, combines topics discussing: the analysis of processes successfully implemented in industrial practice; ideas concerning production with recycling ...

Biodegradable Films Today

(Flexpack)

April 29, 2005, Most of us love our creature comforts, including the many items that use flexible packaging substrates. As a result, increasing amounts of plastic films and foil enter the waste stream, because no easy ...

Taming Plastics

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February 27, 2005, Plastics may be flexible, brittle, or stretchable; thin, medium, or thick; clear to opaque; really easy to tear, easy to tear, tough to tear, or impossible to tear; have excellent "memory" or have no "memory"; ...

Film Opens New Markets

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February 27, 2005, ... to melt. Confectionary marketers increasingly are switching from specialty papers to plastic films for such applications and are relying on FDA-approved controlled release adhesives to seal them. In ...

A Universal Film for Flex-Pack?

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December 30, 2004, ... for the existence of a wide variety of combinations of plastic materials achieved through the lamination or coextrusion process. Composites made by laminating or coextruding also do not provide a universal ...

Dec. 7-9: AMI's Polyethylene Films 2004 Will Focus on North American Industr

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November 21, 2004, ... of the North American film market Victor Platta (Advanced Polybag) - plastic carrier bags John Manuck (Techmer) - meeting the challenge of innovation in the film market Andrew Reynolds (AMI) - the trade ...

New Clear Barrier Film Resin Technology Replaces Coated Films

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September 29, 2004, Creating packaging that allows consumers to see clearly the food they are purchasing — and also promises the food is fresh — presents converters and end-users with a unique manufacturing challenge.  ...

Discoloration Resistant Polyolefin Films

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September 29, 2004, ... memories in the minds of young trash disposers trying to earn an allowance. The traumatic days of “cheap” plastic bags are over. Serious advances have addressed most concerns regarding durability. The ...

Breakin' Bounds in Barrier Films

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August 30, 2004, ... (klinegroup.com), “With a US market volume of more than $2 billion in 2003, innovative plastic films used in barrier flexible packaging have made significant gains against metals, paper, and glass. During ...

Rise & Fall of Printed Film COF

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June 29, 2004, ... Tg, the lower will be the COF. The presence of plasticizers and high boiling solvents will raise the COF. COF increase of printed films is unusual, but it can and does occur. Increase of COF with time ...