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First Glance

(Magazine)

May 31, 2007, ... Plastic Suppliers. The film is made with NatureWorks PLA resin produced from 100% field corn grown in the US. The film is compostable and reportedly offers many other environmental benefits. Supplier ...

Converter Clips

(Magazine)

May 31, 2007, ... billion performance business for Dow,” says Romeo Kreinberg, Dow's executive VP for the Performance Plastics and Chemicals portfolio. “We will accelerate growth, ensure long-term supply, and offer a broad ...

Narrow Web & Label Reporter

(Magazine)

May 31, 2007, ... in-plant scrap for the packaging industry. In addition to recycling for all types of production scrap, including foils, laminates, plastic films, and containers, the facility will include equipment to ...

AIMCAL's Technology/Innovation Winners at CMM 200

(Archive)

May 30, 2007, ... Static (both #2637) | Anti-Static Shock Tail The Shock Tail is a new tool for converters to control static. It removes static from winders and winding rolls of plastics, paper and textiles. Celplast ...

Sweets Success

(Magazine)

April 30, 2007, Located in the industrial left bank of Kiev (Kyiv), Ukraine's bustling capital city, Ukrplastic is the nation's largest flexible packaging converter. Located in the industrial left bank of Kiev (Kyiv), Ukraine' ...

Converter Clips

(Magazine)

April 30, 2007, Competitive Paper & Plastic Packaging Demand (million pounds) % Annual Growth Item 2000 2005 2010 00/05 05/10 Total* 22,916 23,620 25,660 0.6 1.7 Paper Competitive Paper & Plastic Packaging Demand (million ...

New Product Digest

(Magazine)

April 30, 2007, ... suspended end to end using company's sleeve plugs. Pre-cut slots on rail ends accept standard steel or plastic banding that prevents rails from being jostled loose during transit. Visit Booth 1851. PFFC-ASAP ...

Specialty Film Demand to Approach $7.3 Billion in 2010

(Archive)

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 ...

Converter Clips

(Magazine)

March 31, 2007, ... and Film Products are merchant converters of plastic film; Patison is a distribution company supplying plastic films from strategic locations throughout North America. Filmquest Group is under a letter ...

A Scrappy Competitor

(Magazine)

March 31, 2007, Rich Shaw, general production manager of Mohawk Northern Plastics, says the 35-year-old company has enjoyed sustained success by operating state-of-the-art Rich Shaw, general production manager of Mohawk ...

Leader of the Six-Pack

(Magazine)

March 31, 2007, ... King of PCI Films Consulting Ltd. presented the global outlook for the high-performance plastic film industry (also see PFFC, January '07, p30), including insight on the overall recent trends concerning ...

What's Ne

(Magazine)

March 31, 2007, ... with its operating range of 16-120 mm. Data output feeds directly to a PLC, so sensors can replace analog distance sensors, company says. PFFC-ASAP 405 Barrier with Metallized PP Films Toray Plastics ...

Booth Listings & Product Highlights

(Magazine)

March 31, 2007, ... See ad on pCMM-IFC. Ashland Specialty Chemical; Booth 2508 Automatic Handling Intl.; Booth 1532 AV Flexologiv; Booth 2219 Available Plastics; Booth 1750 AVC Industries; Booth 1502 Azco Corp.; Booth ...

AIMCAL Saddles Up in Texas

(Archive)

March 26, 2007, ... King of PCI Films Consulting Ltd. presented the global outlook for the high-performance plastic film industry (also see PFFC, January ’07, p30), including insight on the overall recent trends concerning ...

Reader's Choic

(Magazine)

February 28, 2007, ... Chill Rolls Have Mirror Finish An optical mirror finish on chill rolls reportedly yields ultra-smooth and clear finishes for plastic film and sheet extrusions. Manufacturer says optical mirror finishes ...

East Beats West

(Flexpack)

February 28, 2007, ... Consulting Ltd./Industry Estimates The world flexible packaging market used a little over 14 million tonnes of various plastic films, speciality papers, and aluminium foils in 2005 to create a variety ...

Product Protection

(Technical Reports)

February 28, 2007, ... materials in traditional plastics applications is driving a desire to remove PVDC from packaging applications and replace it with an alternative that offers the same or improved performance at similar ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

February 28, 2007, News from: Davis-Standard, Heidelberg, DuPont, CMM, Teel Plastics, GASC, EFI, xpedx, Applications in Intelligent Chromatics, Yupo, BMO Capital Markets, DataLase, HP, F&K, Loparex, Bobst Group, QuadTech, ...

Folding Carton Shows Off

(Carton Box)

February 27, 2007, ... packaging technologists would deny that when it comes to new product introductions, flexible packaging in the form of plastic films increasingly has been chosen over more rigid materials such as the folding ...

Leader of the Six-Pack

(Magazine)

February 27, 2007, ... Unilustre transfer-metallized paper/paperboard construction is converted by Unifoil in four patterns and combined with graphics to generate a wide array of designs. Unifoil employs film from Toray Plastics ...