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ISCST Symposium Continues Tradition of Connecting Academia with Industry

(Coating/Laminating)

September 19, 2010, ... reduced waste or environmental needs. Recipient Benjamin Schmidt-Hansberg earned this award for the paper “In-situ monitoring the film formation of solution cast polymer-fullerene blends for organic solar ...

Flexo Printing: Smart Press, Even Smarter Buy

(Flexpack)

August 31, 2010, ... preservation. Although EB 1 looks like a laminated bag and boasts similar grease barrier and strength properties, it is 100% recyclable as a polyethylene product. Richard Pileski, sales manager at Hood' ...

Plastics Recycling: Reclaim & Reuse

(Coating/Laminating)

August 31, 2010, Hilex Poly's pioneering development of postconsumer recycling began with its Bag-2-Bag in-store recycling program, launched in 2005. Since then, the company Hilex Poly's pioneering development of postconsumer ...

Coating Tech Service To Serve Roll-to-Roll Coating Industry

(Coating/Laminating)

August 12, 2010, ... scalability in web coating applications.  Mark holds a Masters degree in Polymer Science and Engineering from Lehigh Univ. and a Bachelors degree in Chemical Engineering from the Univ. of Wisconsin and ...

Deinking Study Is Shared

(Digital)

July 31, 2010, ... Systems label factories in Rodgau, Germany, and Brossard, Canada. Berry Plastics, Franklin, MA, now is producing its Nashua and Polyken brand HVAC foil tape products with an unbleached disposable ...

Flexpack: DuPont Honors Innovation

(Flexpack)

May 31, 2010, Consumer-driven innovations named as winners in packaging competition DuPont Packaging & Industrial Polymers recently announced winners of its 22nd DuPont Awards for Packaging Innovation. The awards program ...

Range of UPM Raflatac Substrates Qualify for Xeikon Label Presses

(News | New Products)

May 05, 2010, ... from UPM Raflatac include paper stocks as well as synthetic films, such as clear and white polypropylene (BOPP), and polyester (PET) of varying thicknesses. The qualification process, conducted at Xeikon' ...

Converting Industry News Clips

(News Clips Archive)

April 30, 2010, ... polymers by $0.04/wet lb. Its GenFlo, GenCeal, Omnabond, GenCryl, and GenCal styrene butadiene-based emulsion polymers increase $0.04/dry lb. Mica Corp., Shelton, CT, contracts São Paulo-based B.Y. ...

Business Formed To Buy Post-Consumer PLA

(News Clips Archive)

March 31, 2010, CONCORD, CA | BIOCOR LLC is a new venture in the business of buying, aggregating, and processing post-consumer polylactic acid (PLA). BIOCOR will capitalize CONCORD, CA | BIOCOR LLC is a new venture in ...

Multipack Juices It Up

(Metallizing)

March 31, 2010, ... Graphics have a rich, 3-D quality made possible by spot matte lacquer that contrasts with glossy areas. Taghleef supplies the 48-µm TSS biaxially oriented polypropylene (BOPP) laminated to 20-µm ZSF ...

AIMCAL Awards

(Coating/Laminating)

March 21, 2010, ... 100% recycled paperboard substrates for the reverse-printed, metallized Composipac Z-Flute folding carton. DuPont Teijin Films, Hopewell, VA, supplies the 48-ga polyethylene terephthalate (PET) film for ...

VaryFlex Press Goes To Costa Rica

(Narrow Web)

February 28, 2010, LECCO, ITALY | Omet has sold a VaryFlex-F1 press to Polymer, a package printer based in Costa Rica. The nine-color flexo press is fitted with in-line LECCO, ITALY | Omet has sold a VaryFlex-F1 press to ...

Click To Pick

(New Products)

February 28, 2010, ... adhesive-coated film. The clear, styrene-acrylic copolymer is designed for applications that require high water and blush resistance. Its high transparency makes it ideal for use in clear film labels used ...

Breaking Boundaries

(Flexpack)

February 28, 2010, ... nylon/polyethylene laminated bottom web, which is sealed to coated Tyvek. The package is said to provide improved manufacturing efficiencies twofold. The customer was able to improve sterilization techniques ...

Flex-Pack = Opportunity

(Extrusion Coating)

January 31, 2010, ... is a wide choice of flexible package constructions involving papers, films, aluminium foils, and most recently, renewable polymer materials such as maize-based polylactic acid (PLA). Pouches are a popular ...

Paper or Plastic?

(Archive)

November 30, 2009, ... is replacing super-calendered kraft (SCK), poly-coated kraft (PCK), and glassines, as well as other synthetics, and is ideal for clean room and pharmaceutical applications because it is debris-free. Mitsubishi ...

Cores | The Foundation of Winding

(Web Lines)

October 31, 2009, ... (foils, polyester, many papers) in which even a subtle outer diameter loss will loosen the layers near the core, possibly leading to a telescoped roll (see “Cinching: Belt Tightening Gone Bad, Part 1” ...

Heat Seal Has No VOCs

(New Products)

October 31, 2009, ... provide perfectly bonded recycled RPET blister packages and will not crystallize over time. Reported benefits include excellent adhesion to recycled polyester blisters and options for offset, flexo, and ...

TLMI Gives Members a Shot of Confidence at Annual Meeting

(News | New Products)

October 29, 2009, ...  Grand Rapid Label Co. (www.grlabel.com) ID Images LLC (www.idimages.com) Mitsubishi Polyester Film Inc. (www.m-petfilm.com) Multi-Color Corp. (www.multicolorcorp.com) Smyth Companies (www.smythco.com) ...

WHAT'S NEW PRODUCT

(New Products)

September 30, 2009, ...  Film for Balloons LumLife film enables balloon converters to create brilliant, printable, metallized polyester balloons that do not stress crack and maintain seal integrity during the manufacturing ...