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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 ...

Innovation is a winner in FPA competition

(Magazine)

March 31, 1996, ... heat-seals the ends, and cuts the joined packets into individual strips. Polyester prevents bleed-through of the epoxy resin or the curing agent that was used in this product. A shelf life of one year ...

Deciphering the complexities of the core/shaft/unwind relationship.

(Magazine)

January 31, 1996, ... plastic cores, "standard" plastic cores, and metal cores. Composition of reinforced plastic cores can be linen-based phenolic, fiberglass-based epoxy, or polyester resins. Plastic cores can be comprised ...

Brake and clutches improve to meet industry demands.

(Magazine)

December 31, 1995, ... as 80% asbestos, are a proprietary mix of binders and phenolic resins crosslinked with polyamids. According to Wissenback, the air-cooled disc system is the most effective as far as heat dissipation ...

Measurement technique improves metallized PP

(Magazine)

November 30, 1995, ... the original resin formulation, prior to stretching. The second type of pin-window is usually associated with "pits" in the film just below the pin window. Pits seem to occur much less frequently than ...

Converting capabilities grow in Caribbean nations.

(Magazine)

September 30, 1995, ... to be $50 MM and consumes over 35 MM lb. of PE resin annually. Facilities include two coextruders (Fabricos y Servicio and Multiform), three laminators (Tuberias y Materiales, Fabricos y Servicio and Prepak) ...

Bagmaking operation refuses to stand still

(Magazine)

September 30, 1995, ... 50-lb. bags of resin went down an elevator to where the extruders were in the basement, and the film came up a stairwell. When the operation moved into a new building in the early 60s, Shields wanted to ...

Growing popularity of PET drives shortage to crisis level

(Magazine)

August 31, 1995, Widely hailed as the "green" resin of the '90s, polyethylene terephthalate, or PET, is now the wunderkind of the converting/packaging industry. Sometimes Widely hailed as the "green" resin of the '90s, polyethylene ...