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W&H to Highlight TOPAS System at Pack Expo

(Flexpack)

September 21, 2004, ... goods, including plastic resins, fertilizers, salts, sugars, chemicals, vitamin powders, seeds, as well as pet food. Even difficult-to-handle products — such as heavy-flowing and powdery products or even ...

Keep Your Eye on the Gold

(Magazine)

August 30, 2004, ... your budgeting plans for 2005. Rapra Technology (polymer-books.com) evaluates worldwide film markets that represent 40 million tons of all plastics production worldwide. Its new “Plastic Films — Situation ...

Materials

(Magazine)

August 30, 2004, New materials from: Argotec, Regal Graphics, Sumitomo Chemical, Ticona, and Toray Plastics. Substrates, Inks, Adhesives, Polymers... Printable Films for HP Indigo Regal Graphics, Kansas City, MO, USA; ...

A New Definition

(Magazine)

August 30, 2004, ...  Then there are other alternatives: containers such as flexible pouches or sachets and plastic tubes where the information and decoration normally contained on a label are integral to the package itself. ...

Converting Industry News, Part 1

(Magazine)

August 30, 2004, ... a div. of the SMS Plastics Technology Group. Two lines were installed originally, and a third was added recently. "What we look for is equipment that will help us produce nice flat rolls with good gauge ...

United Kingdom

(Magazine)

August 30, 2004, ... group (formerly Lawson Mardon), Lintac Plastics Ltd., and others that form the nucleus of the nation's diverse flexible packaging industry. There are many unique characteristics among flexible packaging ...

Shear Slitting Can Provide Advantages

(Archive)

July 30, 2004, ... knife speed and slit edge quality. There is some indication that faster speeds are better for foil. It should be noted that most plastic films and papers are slit at synchronous speeds and with excellent ...

Battenfeld Gloucester Says MDO Provides Enhancements to PE; OEM Spotlights K Show Offerings

(Archive)

July 05, 2004, ... Gloucester (a subsidiary of SMS Plastics Technology) will showcase its "expertise" in machinery and dies for blown film extrusion at K 2004 this fall. According to the OEM, among its offerings for the ...

A Communication from the PLACE Div. of TAPPI

(Magazine)

June 29, 2004, ... Brampton Engineering, Inc., MOCON, Stratis Plastic Pallets, Polytype, ATOFINA, Extrusion Dies Industries, LLC, M. Torres Disenos Industriales S.A., and Voridian Division of Eastman Chemical Co. Committees ...

Rise & Fall of Printed Film COF

(Flexpack)

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 ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

June 29, 2004, News from: Applied Films, Battenfeld Gloucester (SMS Plastics), CCTI, CMM, CRC Information Systems, Decorated Paper (Hazen), Eastman Kodak, Freedonia Group, Messe Stuttgart, Mid-Atlantic Packaging Supply, ...

Materials

(Magazine)

June 29, 2004, New from: Adhesives Research, ADM Tronics, American Profol, Dow Chemical Corp., Fasson (Avery Dennison), Metal Foils, Mohawk Paper Mills, National Adhesives, Rad-Cure Corp., Sheffield Plastics, SICPA North ...

Products

(Magazine)

June 29, 2004, ... with narrow, medium, and wide web presses, including web-fed offset, flexo, and gravure. Modify Plastics for Adhesion Ciba Specialty Chemicals, Basel, Switzerland; + 41 61 636 4444; cibasc.com Prime ...

The Latitudes of LEAN

(Magazine)

June 29, 2004, ... adds Kevin Kelly, who runs his family's Union City, CA-based plastic produce packaging business, Emerald Packaging. “We're getting daily reports on production. We generate weekly reports, too, [that measure] ...

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

(Magazine)

June 29, 2004, ... of blend compositions on rhealogical, heat seal, optical, and tensile properties. Email the author(s) at jparks@atplastics.com Application: Blends of ethylene-vinyl-acetate copolymers with metallocene ...

Less (Thinner) Film, More Uses

(Magazine)

May 31, 2004, ... Actually, if what you're talking about is film, it depends on the process and the application. Eric Bartholomay, product development manager at Toray Plastics (Americas), North Kingston, RI (toraytpa.com), ...

New Materials for the Converting Industry, PFFC, June 2004

(Magazine)

May 30, 2004, New material products from: Argotec, CPFilms, Klöckner Pentaplast, Sicpa NA, Techni-Met, Thin Film Analysis, and Toray Plastics. Substrates, Inks, Adhesives, Polymers... Analyze Many Thin Films Thin ...

New Products for the Converting Industry, PFFC, June 2004

(Magazine)

May 30, 2004, ...  Eliminate Static with Ion Knife Exair Corp., Cincinnati, OH; 513/671-3322; exair.com Super Ion Knife eliminates static electricity from paper, plastics, and other product surfaces where poor print ...

Converting Industry News, Part 1

(Archive)

May 30, 2004, ... Corporate Research Process Laboratory). For more information contact SVC at 505/856-7188 or visit svc.org. Conference Touts Flex-Pack BROOKFIELD, CT, USA—The Society of Plastics Engineers and ...

International Converting Industry News

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May 30, 2004, ... of film extruders has grown by more than 20%, and there are opportunities for new companies to set up in that area, says AMI. For more information call +44 (0) 1179249442 or visit amiplastics.com.  ...