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For Composite Packaging Recycling, the Future is Now

(Flexpack)

December 04, 2022, ... packaging designs often combine different polymers such as PET, PA, EVOH and polyolefins, and complement these polymer films with metal layers like aluminum foil or vacuum metallization. In another study, ...

Thinking Inside and Outside the Coating Box

(News | New Products)

October 02, 2022, ... polymers can considerably improve barrier resistance. The drawback, seldom mentioned, is that the positive environmental credentials associated with paper and paperboard could be regarded as being compromised. ...

Baldwin Technology Partners With Fi-Tech to Represent Textile and Nonwoven Finishing Technologies in North America

(News | New Products)

October 02, 2022, ... polymer, textiles, converting, perforated products and tobacco processing. Fi-Tech also maintains a spare parts inventory for many of the companies it represents. “With the increasing demand of Baldwin’s ...

Material Properties, Testing & Applications: Part 3

(Converting Expert)

September 26, 2022, ... equations. For example, Polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) has a yield stress of 8,700 psi with a modulus of 300 ksi. If you elect to run at 25 percent of the elastic limit, set your tension to 218# for ...

Saperatec to Showcase Breakthrough Delamination Approach to Composite Packaging Recycling At K Fair in Düsseldorf

(Upcoming Conference News)

August 14, 2022, ... composite packaging, as well as other materials combining plastics with metal, glass and paper. Outside the packaging realm, possibilities include vastly improved recycling for glass-polymer composites ...

Sustainable Machinery Performance and Smart Factory Solutions Brought To You By Davis-Standard at K2022

(Upcoming Conference News)

July 24, 2022, ... and needed flexibility for processing various polymers at changing web widths. The motorized deckling adjustment promotes safe operation, and an optional way-encoder reduces waste during product changeover. ...

Material Properties, Testing & Applications: Part 3

(Coating/Laminating)

July 17, 2022, ...  For example, Polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) has a yield stress of 8,700 psi with a modulus of 300 ksi. If you elect to run at 25 percent of the elastic limit, set your tension to 218# for a 10” wide ...

Sustainability Beyond Recyclability

(Flexpack)

July 04, 2022, ... paper/poly/foil/poly structures offer good stiffness, barrier and filing on high-speed machines, but are challenging to make recyclable. Also, high residue products or products that require a barrier such ...

H.B. Fuller Joins 4evergreen Alliance

(News | New Products)

March 07, 2022, ... dematerializing the pallet packaging used throughout the supply chain, such as trays, slip sheets and stretch wraparound pallets that use polyethylene plastic, a material that is not recyclable in some ...

Comexi Will Expand Its Presence in the Middle East with a Showroom at Madayn Plastic Company

(News | New Products)

March 02, 2022, ... The Comexi F2 ML printing machine is the ideal response to market demands, in reference to large format jobs, such as those of the polyethylene market for wrap around, hygiene, as well as the majority ...

New At K 2022: START-UP ZONE

(News | New Products)

February 28, 2022, ... quality circular polymers for the global production supply chain. Also on board are HAGE 3D from Austria, which produces large format industrial 3D printers, and the developers of ENLYZE from Germany, ...

Innovative Recycling Solutions for Thermoset Plastics

(News | New Products)

February 14, 2022, ... types of plastic are easy to process. As explained in the brief, plastic materials are generally classified according to their chemical compositions as either thermoplastics, such as polyethylene terephthalate ...

Thermal Transfer Core Design and Performance in Today’s Markets

(Web Handling)

January 23, 2022, ... dual layer system. Notice the release polymer penetrating not only the valleys of the profile, but also embedded in the porosity of the metal matrix. This increases strength and mechanical integrity, resulting ...

Empire Screen Printing Roll to Roll Innovations Achieves New Levels of Efficiency, Repeatability, and Quality, ideal for OEM Applications

(News | New Products)

January 03, 2022, ... by Empire’s industrial engineers, the Roll-to-Roll Screen Press can print on a variety of first and subsurface materials including Polycarbonate, Polyester, Vinyl, BOPP, and Paper products with material ...

Rust to Tech, Part II

(Coating/Laminating)

December 19, 2021, ... expertise using paper, poly and nonwovens to produce “Super Material ™”. Mid South Extrusion produces polyethylene films in mono and multi-layered structures for printing and converting. Eight-color printing, ...

The Discovery, Development of Glitter

(Roll Handling)

December 12, 2021, ... acetate followed by polished aluminum foil.  Over the years more substrates were added including epoxy coated metallized film, polyester, PVC, iridescent films, complex laminations, and others. Materials ...

3 Pandemic-Driven Trends That Are Changing the Packaging Industry

(News | New Products)

December 06, 2021, ... OTC medications, and CBD products. Closures, often in the form of zippers, have become an extension of flexible packaging with their polyethylene-based technologies growing to include tactical and audible ...

Tesa Introduces Innovative Adhesive Solution for Packaging Printers

(News | New Products)

November 30, 2021, ... waste associated with packaging printing. Comprised of a base sleeve, polyurethane foam, stabilization film and adhesive polymer, tesa® Twinlock eliminates the need for tape in packaging printing. What ...

Rust to Tech, Part II

(Converting Perspectives)

November 28, 2021, ... expertise using paper, poly and nonwovens to produce “Super Material ™”. Mid South Extrusion produces polyethylene films in mono and multi-layered structures for printing and converting. Eight-color printing, ...

The Discovery, Development of Glitter

(News | New Products)

November 28, 2021, ... acetate followed by polished aluminum foil.  Over the years more substrates were added including epoxy coated metallized film, polyester, PVC, iridescent films, complex laminations, and others. Materials ...