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What Works Best?

(Magazine)

October 31, 2003, ... a $5.9 billion chemical company formed in 1997, is one of the world's largest producers of ethylene, propylene, and polyethylene resins, with more than 3,000 employees and 16 manufacturing facilities along ...

Cast Film Lines for Barrier Films

(The Place)

October 31, 2003, ... winding. Winding and web tension determine hardness of the finished film reel and therefore its subsequent conversion. Crystalline resins such as polyamide or polypropylene can re-crystallize and shrink ...

Converter Panel Attracts Interest at Conference

(The Place)

September 30, 2003, ... that included four tracks of sessions each day. A feature of the meeting was the track devoted to various topics concerning hot melt products. Other session topics included high barrier resins, active ...

Meeting the Need

(Materials)

September 30, 2003, ... and other milk-based products are one of the main applications for Appeel sealant resins. Food processors can take advantage of lids said to peel easily from the container in one piece; have high puncture-resistance ...

Foil Converter Changes Course

(Magazine)

September 30, 2003, ... PFFC-ASAP 308. Fort Lee, NJ; 210/224-4600; sunchemical.com Rohm & Haas Polymers & Resins North America—PFFC-ASAP 309. Philadelphia, PA; 215/592-3000; rohmandhaas.com SAPPI Fine Paper North America—PFFC-ASAP ...

Producing Coextruded High Barrier Heat-Shrinkable Packaging Films

(The Place)

September 30, 2003, ... polyamide (PA). The structural resins are polyolefins. Tie layers are necessary when a barrier material does not adhere to a structural polymer. Process In the coextruded double bubble process, a polymer ...

Sonoco to Sell High Density Film Biz

(News | New Products)

September 14, 2003, ... these assets to our primary growth vehicles will enhance our opportunity to increase total returns to shareholders and significantly reduce the company's exposure to highly cyclical resin markets." Sonoco' ...

Adhesion of Coatings to Aluminum Foil

(The Place)

August 31, 2003, ... to lower adhesion to an EAA resin at the edges than in the middle. In the laboratory coating, the EAA adhered inseparably to the foil in the middle of the web but was easily peeled at the edges. In practice, ...

International Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

August 31, 2003, ... are produced using encapsulation to prevent this barrier resin from contacting the metal surfaces of the feedblock and die. The line, CXL-7210, includes nine extruders, seven for each of the seven layers ...

Pack Expo: Winning Packaging Materials Pavilion Spotlighted in Vegas

(News | New Products)

August 10, 2003, ... that help enhance branding efforts without sacrificing barrier properties, machine capability, or versatility." He adds, "Included in the exhibits will be advancements in plastics, resins, films, glass, ...

Ups & Downs of Business Make Escape an Attractive Option

(Magazine)

July 31, 2003, ... if it is plastic bags, corrugated boxes, aluminum, rubber rollers, resin, staples, printing plates, etc., every day is RUSH, problems, bad news, major crises, etc. NOT minor, major. Prices keep going up, ...

Ink Jet PigmentsThe Land of the Small

(Materials)

July 31, 2003, ... through dispersants or resins that can increase the stability of the ink formulation. Whereas conventional inks use pigments in the size range of microns, jet inks typically use finely dispersed pigments ...

Materials

(Materials)

July 31, 2003, ... C, making it suitable for use in high-temperature resin processing. Milliken Chemical, Spartanburg, SC; 864/503-2200; milliken.com Antimicrobial Coating Uses Silver Silver is a key antimicrobial ingredient ...

Active Packaging Product Update

(Magazine)

July 31, 2003, ... of regulatory approvals for food contact, co. says, adding that silver zirconium phosphate is thermally stable to 800 deg C, making it suitable for use in high-temperature resin processing. Milliken Chemical, ...

Green Stands for Go

(Flexpack)

July 31, 2003, ... from renewable resources and can be converted much like petroleum-based resins — except that PLA is compostable. The NatureWorks technology produces the resin by “harvesting” carbon from plants such ...

Active Packaging

(Flexpack)

July 31, 2003, AWA Alexander Watson Assoc. explores the options and opportunities in security, brand protection, and product authentication with today's active packaging. AWA Alexander Watson Assoc. explores the options ...

European Meeting Presents Large Technical Program

(Magazine)

July 31, 2003, ... a Chemical Primer.” Yves M. Trouilhet of DuPont de Nemours Intl. S.A. talked on “New Acrylate Based Resins for Extrusion Coating.” “Study on Orientable EVOH” was the title of the presentation by Ikko Matsui ...

A New Enhanced Polyethylene for Extrusion Coating and Laminating

(The Place)

July 31, 2003, ... level on processing and properties. Compare the extrusion coating processing and properties of this enhanced PE to a conventional LLDPE extrusion coating resin and to plastomers currently used in extrusion ...

Brazilian Meeting Attracts Large Audience

(Magazine)

June 30, 2003, ... Packaging and Leda Colto of CETEA. Technical papers at the meeting numbered 18. They covered marketing trends for flexible packaging; barrier resins and technologies used in food packaging; adhesives, ...

Coex for Success

(Magazine)

June 29, 2003, ... barrier properties. Since finding one resin to fulfill all these requirements is essentially impossible, coextrusion is the best solution.” Advantages “Coextrusion is another tool in the well-outfitted ...