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Converting Industry News

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September 30, 2007, ... ten years as a producer of food-grade superabsorbent polymers (SAP). Ernst & Young Orenda is financial advisor to Glopak, Montreal, QC, Canada, a manufacturer of flex-pack, on its divestiture to Hood ...

WHAT'S NE

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August 31, 2007, ... | PFFC-ASAP 412 Hot Melt PSA Offers Clarity Duro-Tak 34-659B hot melt PSA, suited for both wide and narrow web applications, reportedly exhibits excellent clarity on polyolefin films and is ideal ...

Reduce & Comply

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August 31, 2007, ... ton/yr (approximately 30,000 substances) will be subject to special registration and evaluation requirements. Additives, inks, and dyes are covered. Polymers and intermediates will be exempt, but manufacturing ...

News Clips

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August 31, 2007, ... recently. Dow Reichhold Specialty Latex, Research Triangle Pk., NC, has decided on a name for its patent-pending technology to produce emulsion polymers. The technology platform will be designated ...

CONVERTER CLIPS

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June 30, 2007, ... plastic sheet extruder to produce packaging using Lenstar lenticular plastic, a polyester-based resin sheet designed for the lenticular market. The company also partnered with two approved lenticular printers. ...

Converter Clips

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May 31, 2007, ... and meat trays. Packages that were made from traditional plastics such as PET, PP, and PS were compared to the same packages made from polylactic acid (PLA), a plastic produced from corn rather than from ...

New Product Digest

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April 30, 2007, ... Densifier automatically converts plastic film, foil, polycoated paper, and other waste material into rigid bricks from 4 in. to more than 8 ft long. Compresses both clean and post-consumer material with ...

Narrow Web & Label Reporter

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March 31, 2007, Keep Moving Flexiprint Pvt. supplies tea bag tags and envelopes in roll form for its own packaging operations, as well as for tea packagers in Asia, Africa, Keep Moving Flexiprint Pvt. supplies tea bag ...

A Scrappy Competitor

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March 31, 2007, ... the company operates 14 extrusion lines from the likes of Windmoeller & Hoelscher, Davis Standard, and Gloucester Engineering, many with unique capabilities. The films, which include polyethylene (PE), ...

What's Ne

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March 31, 2007, ... ball seating on a ceramic nozzle tip. PFFC-ASAP 417 Film Unwinds Smoothly Acpo, Oak Harbor, OH; 877/412-8273; www.acpo.com Easy-release polyester self-wound overlaminate film is designated 891. ...

TAPPI Calls for Abstracts

(Flexpack)

March 21, 2007, ... Conference Technical Program, September 16-20, 2007, in St. Louis, MO. Sponsored by TAPPI’s Polymers, Laminations, Adhesives, Coatings and Extrusions (PLACE) Division, the conference is tailored for attendees ...

Narrow Web What's Ne

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February 28, 2007, Narrow web new products from: Dielectric Polymers, Matik North America, Kodak Graphic Communications Group, and Esko. Narrow Web Machinery, Accessories, Services Splicing Can Be Quick and Easy Dielectric ...

Focusing on European Flex-Pack

(Flexpack)

February 28, 2007, ... “Easy Opening Packaging Concepts with Polybutene-1 [PB-1],” saying, “Among areas being looked at are future uses in chilled and fresh food, confectionery, and applications which require controlled and ...

What's Ne

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February 28, 2007, ... Xeikon 6000 digital press achieves speeds 60% faster than previous model for paper substrates from 40 (27# text) to 350 gsm (16-pt board) as well as polyester film, transfer materials, and label stock. ...

Twist & Shout

(Web Lines)

December 31, 2006, ... 50-in.-wide polyester over a 50-in. span at 1 PLI) likely will wrinkle if the rollers are misaligned by 3 mils/ft of width, the same web likely will have no problem with a twist 100x greater or 300 mils/ft. ...

the PLACE

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December 31, 2006, ... in the paper discuss how the addition of a non-polar process aid to polyolefins allowed achieving higher productivity. The material is a highly crystalline, linear, non-polar Fischer-Tropsch hydrocarbon ...

A Call to Arms

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November 30, 2006, ... of them—are recyclable. Bleached and natural, blue and yellow colored, poly-coated, film-based, silicone-coated liners are all recyclable. There are issues of segregation by type, packaging requirements, ...

Cure Cockling

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November 30, 2006, ... to seal up with poly coating. There are several paper coatings that are used to alleviate cockling. Poly-coated liners have a layer of polyolefin (plastic) coated on both sides of the base paper. This ...

Converting Industry News

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November 07, 2006, ... improvement training by a Boeing team to obtain the certification. Biodegradables Info Offered DUBLIN, IRELAND—A 2006 report on biodegradable polymers indicates costs have come down over the last ...

Labelexpo New Products

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October 31, 2006, ... Light Films combine precise layers of polymeric materials with different reflective qualities and add prismatic impact for appearance, brand differentiation, and shelf appeal. Colors are said to shimmer ...