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New Sausage Casing Technology Available

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September 30, 2001, ... unveiled at the K Show in Düsseldorf, Germany, incorporates technical know-how on Saran sausage casing production from Dow, including the supply of Saran PVDC resins and color-matching support. The ...

Web Guides Bring Positive Results to Negative Sleeves

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September 30, 2001, ... with Pillar equipment. The company uses up to 240,000 lb of resin a month, so it brings it in by rail car and stores it in two 200,000-lb silos. Key to the efficiency of the extrusion department is ...

Three Shows Make Autumn a Season of Innovation

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August 31, 2001, ... equipment and process control; advances in photochemistry and polymerization; raw materials and formulation; analytics; new applications; and more. Among the exhibitors will be Akzo Nobel Resins; BASF; ...

New Product Digest

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August 31, 2001, ... defoaming chemistry combined with colorants, resins, and additives. This formulation reportedly assures that presses will perform without micro-foam voids and that anilox cells will be filled with ink. ...

So You've Seen a Ghost! Who You Gonna Call

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July 31, 2001, ... printing. First, the retained solvent can cause odor problems, and second, the presence of solvent can leave the resin in a semi-solid state, which is prone to block to the other side of the web. On certain ...

Polymers/Laminations/Adhesives/Coatings/Extrusions

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July 31, 2001, ... The reverse roll method can apply higher coating weights, but it suffers at the low end of the coating weight range. It can apply from 25 to 500 g/m2. The roll coater can deliver hot melts and resins from ...

Materials

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June 30, 2001, ... while maintaining excellent thermal transfer printability and durability as well as UL- and CSA-compliance. Resins Deliver Unique Property Mix Chevron Phillips Chemical Co., Houston, TX; 800/231-1212 ...

What's New in Narrow We

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June 30, 2001, ... provided. Thermal Transfer Ribbon Minimizes Ink Buildup Sony Chemicals Corp. of America, Mt. Pleasant, PA; 724/696-7500 TR4085plus resin/enhanced wax thermal transfer ribbon is guaranteed by co. not ...

Polymers/Laminations/Adhesives/Coatings/Extrusions

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June 30, 2001, ... identify process performance changes in early stages to allow determination of causes before quality suffers. Some LTMD sources are temperature controllers, resin feed systems, ambient conditions, material ...

Converting Industry News

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May 31, 2001, ... for this very popular product.” Supplier Information UCB Films, Wigton, Cumbria, U.K.; +44 (0) 16973-42281 Resin Benefits Fragrance Package MT Packaging, Challes, France, uses Eastman Chemical' ...

Materials

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May 31, 2001, ... produce harsh odors usually associated with volatiles and charred adhesive. Two Low-Gel Resins Offer Benefits AT Plastics, Brampton, Ont., Canada; 905/451-1630 Co. is introducing two grades of extrusion ...

Division Conference Offers Varied Program

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May 31, 2001, ... And Properties,” “An Introduction To Coextrusion Systems,” and “Fundamentals Of Blown Film Systems.” Amy B. Hitchock of Eastman Chemical Co. will chair the session on “Resin Basics.” The speakers will ...

What's New in Narrow We

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April 30, 2001, ... applications. Wax, wax/resin, and resin ribbons are approved for use in all toy labeling applications and are said to be ideal for product safety label instructions, lot codes, and inventory and pricing ...

Materials

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April 30, 2001, ... resin for use in extruding multilayer blown and cast film. The LLDPE component is said to provide heat resistance, clarity, and toughness. When used in PE/barrier film, product reportedly provides higher ...

High Clarity Linear Low Density Polyethylene for Packaging Applications

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April 30, 2001, ... resin used by many extruders is an octene comonomer linear low density resin with a nominal density of 0.920 g/cm3 and a melt index of 1.0 dg/min. This resin offers a combination of reasonable clarity ...

Pellet Transfer: Preventative Measures Employed to Reduce Streamer Formation

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April 30, 2001, Application: Preventive equipment and procedures can eliminate or reduce the generation of streamers at several points in a resin handling process. Email the author(s) at: jepp@chevron.com Following ...

Water-Based Ink Adhesion and Web Temperature

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March 31, 2001, ... alkali-soluble binder and a resin emulsion. The alkali-soluble binder dissolves in alkaline water, which contains ammonium hydroxide. This resin also is used to disperse the pigment. This binder has a ...

A Proposal for Spreading Base Web During Melt Extrusion

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March 31, 2001, Melt extruded resin polymers on cloth and other webs sometimes result in transverse direction (TD) curl of the laminate. And this curl often causes poor roll formation when the base roll is slit into large-diameter, ...

The Amcor Story Continues

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March 31, 2001, ... to Lens, a material for surgical glove packaging utilizes a “unique PET lamination that is peelable, sealable, and able to be gamma treated.” Able to extrude all types of resins, including ethylene ...

Extrusion Coating Technology For The Imaging Industry

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March 31, 2001, ... materials such as polypropylene, polyester, and many copolymers of polyethylene. In the early 1970s, a resin coated base paper became available for photographic paper. Equipment modifications also became ...