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Reader Reaction: Top Ten Products for Converters

(New Products)

February 28, 2009, Top Ten Products for Converters UV-Curable PSA Has Low VOC GELVA multipolymer radiation (GMR) 8020-02 UV-curable PSA offers excellent adhesive characteristics to both low-energy and high-energy surfaces. ...

Flexible Packaging Association 2009 Award Winners

(Flexpack Main)

February 28, 2009, ... Co. Inc., Polyethylene Packaging Div., Terre Haute, IN, is honored for its Advance Pak Laminated Rack Header Bag with Hanger Hole. Manufactured using less material, it minimizes landfill waste and reduces ...

What's New Products: March 200

(Magazine)

February 28, 2009, ... solvent-free overwrap uses company's proprietary metallocene-based sealant chemistry. The sealant layer bonds to foil without solvent- or water-based materials. This extrusion-coated lamination of polyester, ...

SPE Names Finalists in Clean Plastics Technology Competition

(News | New Products)

February 16, 2009, ... clean technologies for the plastics and polymer industry to showcase their innovations before an audience of plastics industry leaders and investors. These finalists will make their presentations on February ...

Green Is Global

(Archive)

January 31, 2009, ... adhesive wet-out characteristics. We are seeing caliper reductions down to about 23 microns for polyethylene terephthalate (PET) liners. Liner recycling now is gaining impetus as awareness is growing ...

Cylinder Coating Aids Yield

(News Eclips)

January 20, 2009, ... plate to the substrate. Polymers are applied in 0.375-in. thickness to the radius of a new or existing plate cylinder. Company says coating reduces waste, increases yields, and provides predictable, ...

Eco Inks

(Inks/Coatings/Primers)

December 31, 2008, ... atmosphere.” Mel Weinzimer, director of marketing sales for Polytex Environmental Inks, notes “there was a time when all you had to worry about was functionality: Is the product scrubbable, washable, ...

Narrow Web & Label Products

(New Products)

November 30, 2008, ... surfaces. In addition to general purpose bonding, product can be used to splice web rolls on printing equipment. Comprises a polyester film single-coated with an aggressive acrylic adhesive said to deliver ...

Reduce & Reuse

(Extrusion Coating)

November 30, 2008, ... materials currently remains in the food service sector — for poly-coated paperboard cups and plates, bowls, and take-out food containers — liquid packaging and flexible packaging continue to represent ...

AIMCAL Sustains Technology-Hungry

(Metallizing)

November 30, 2008, ... such subjects as nanoparticles, functional polymers, conductive polymer dispersions, production of advanced microelectronics, and covert markers for anticounterfeit brand management. The intervening subject ...

AIMCAL Sustains Technology-Hungry

(News | New Products)

November 16, 2008, ... sessions concentrated on advances in web coating technology, including such subjects as nanoparticles, functional polymers, conductive polymer dispersions, production of advanced microelectronics, and ...

Web Exclusive: Slitting Film

(Archive)

November 11, 2008, ... untapped packaging possibilities. Plastic films and newer combinations of existing synthetic and natural materials in the form of co-polymerization products continue to be developed. The possibility ...

Ink Dispensing: Mix to Match

(Inks/Coatings/Primers)

October 31, 2008, ... general manager of Uniflexo Industria Gráfica. “It is too slow and too prone to error, and that can prove extremely costly.” But Uniflexo, a manufacturer of self-adhesive labels and polyvinyl chloride ...

Lab/Pilot/Technical Facilities Directory

(Archive)

October 31, 2008, ... roll, gravure, hot melt, pattern, reverse roll, rod, slot die, two-sided Substrates | film (0.25-10 mil), foil 0.5-2 mil), nonwoven (20 g), paper (10#-100#), paperboard (8 pt), tissue (10#) Polykote ...

What's New Product

(New Products)

October 31, 2008, ... system. Graphic Whizard | 800-265-3376 | www.graphicwhizard.com PFFC-ASAP 414 Analyze Many Materials The MMR Duplex is suited for analysis of materials, including polymers, films, carbon fibers, ...

What's New Product

(Magazine)

September 30, 2008, ...  Converter Accessory Corp. | 800-433-2413 | www.handleyourweb.com PFFC-ASAP 405 Film Has Water-Based Topcoat Company says 20 Cothene, the topcoated version of its Cothene mono-layered polyolefin ...

Weight Reduction

(Archive)

August 31, 2008, ... state-of-the-art technology, custom designed for CEI to meet the requirements of our customers who prefer not to go offshore for their packaging.” Poly Bags Are Super Strong One of CEI's most recent ...

Earth-Friendly Print

(Print)

August 31, 2008, ... in reducing substrate waste, especially on difficult surfaces like polyolefins, and they have zero VOCs. “Making considered choices within the constraints of the application is the key,” says Dennis ...

New Product Digest

(New Products)

August 31, 2008, ... | 828-651-4800 | www.upmraflatac.com PFFC-ASAP 400 Adhesive Is Ultra-Removable Covinax acrylic, polymer-based PSA formula is said to offer optical clarity that can be used on any application requiring ...

Recyclable PS Demand Increases

(News Eclips)

August 12, 2008, The Environment & Plastics Industry Council (EPIC) reports expanding end-market opportunities are responsible for increased demand for recyclable polystyrene (PS) packaging MISSISSAUGA, ON, CANADA | The ...