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Converted Flexible Packaging: Trends to Watch

(Magazine)

July 31, 2000, ... longer shelf life for produce, meats, and other products; novel resins such as metallocenes that are stronger and more breathable than traditional films; and convenience features such as zippered bags ...

Snack Food Packaging: 100 Years and Counting

(Magazine)

June 30, 2000, ... shelf space. Aluminum foil combinations in packaging increase. Ethylene vinyl alcohol (EVOH) resins and films introduced in Japan; EVOH films offer several features suited for snack food packaging, ...

Outlook 2000 and Beyond: The State of the Trade

(Magazine)

June 30, 2000, ... the forecast for some segments of our industry. Remaining are paper and allied products; and plastics materials and resins. Paper and Allied Products The Outlook begins its discussion of this sector ...

When Employees Become Owners... A Happy Ending

(Magazine)

May 31, 2000, ... He notes the plant runs low-density polyethylene primarily and consumes in the neighborhood of 55 million lb of LDPE resin per year. But, he adds, the plant extrudes other resins and has substantial laminating ...

Coating Operation Cleans Up Its (Trim Removal) Act

(Magazine)

May 31, 2000, ... calls for coating an epoxy-type resin onto a fiberglass woven web," says Sangl, "which has a feathered edge and tends to accumulate resin. As it gets sheeted down into a cut length, we trim away this edge, ...

Decorative Films Served by Multilayer Structure

(Magazine)

May 31, 2000, ... of the advantages of ALUphane is that, unlike other tinted decorative wraps made from PP, the color in ALUphane film does not contaminate the food due to the use of K-Resin styrene-butadiene copolymer ...

Globalization Is Driving Force Behind Fast-Growing NPE

(Magazine)

April 30, 2000, ... companies supply primary processing and auxiliary equipment systems; machine and mold components; resins and compounds; additives, fillers, and reinforcements; and mold-making services. In a recent ...

French Fry Fascination Brings Big Business to Bonar

(Magazine)

March 31, 2000, ... Labor Day that year," Barrett recalls, "and by mid-November we put the first resin and paper through the machine. We were selling commercial products off the line by Christmastime." Both lines run at ...

Converter Plays Key Role in Mercosur Trading Group

(Magazine)

February 29, 2000, ... adhesives. PE resin is purchased from Poliolefinas and Petroquimica Truinfo. Ink suppliers are Belcar and Castiglioni. ISMA is a major supplier to Fleischmann Uruguaya (Nabisco) and Pepsico Snacks with ...

High-Barrier Packaging: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

(Magazine)

January 31, 2000, ... several different layers and various types of resins, which provide advanced properties for such things as extended shelf life and the ability to let in certain gases to change product coloring. The ...

Getting Off to a Smooth Start with a New Coater

(Archive)

December 31, 1999, ... and order production costs. If it's a job that's run before, the operators go to the CMR-2000 and pull up the recipe. Major resin suppliers include Eastman, Equistar, and Huntsman. Specialty additives, ...

Pointing finger places blame but won't solve the proble

(Magazine)

November 30, 1996, ... primers, coatings, extruded resins, metallization, and a variety of substrates both treated and untreated. The number of manufacturers involved in a construction tends to increase as the complexity ...

Getting the most value from your extrusion coater.

(Magazine)

November 30, 1996, ... resins, tie-layer resins, and color concentrates, Quantum runs an extrusion coating line with a wide range of capabilities. During its operation, the line has been updated and retrofitted with the most ...

New possibilities for beer packaging in PEN and LCP

(Magazine)

August 31, 1996, ... (LCPs) as beer bottle resins. Work being done with LCPs at North Carolina State Univ. (Raleigh, NC) is making bottles less permeable than those made by PET. Researchers there successfully developed a detailed ...

Aqueous adhesive systems: giving credit where it is due.

(Magazine)

July 31, 1996, ... solvency than water. They easily dissolved the polymers, resins, plasticizers, and other additives necessary to formulate a high-demand adhesive product. Water dissolves few, if any, of these ingredients ...

A look at the status of UV/EB curing

(Magazine)

June 30, 1996, ... UV/EB-curable market. Water-Reducible Products Water-reducible, UV/EB-curable formulations have been developed for a number of markets. Water dilution of a compatible resin system provides lower ...

PET supplies increasing as markets expand

(Magazine)

May 31, 1996, ... time has come." Dr. Samuel Johnson. Suppliers of polyethylene terephthalate (PET), which was in tight supply last year, expect resin capacity to increase by more than 50% over the next three years. ...

MSC Specialty Films reaches success down to the core

(Magazine)

May 31, 1996, ... and conscious of the environment." One of the environmental issues surrounding cores is that many of them end up in the waste disposal stream, Dickerson explains. Phenolic resin-type cores don't readily ...

Trim system in India to be first to handle sugarcane paper.

(Magazine)

March 31, 1996, ... alternative energies." Resins for Open-Mold DSM Resins BV, the Netherlands, has launched the first in a new generation of polyester resins for open-mold processing techniques. These resins feature ...

Pay attention to flash points, and you won't get burne

(Magazine)

March 31, 1996, ... coating. Diluting with a solvent or further formulating with a plasticizer, resin, or other ingredient may alter the original flash point of the material. Depending on the particular nature of the material ...