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Permanent & Removable Pressure-Sensitive Adhesives

(Magazine)

July 31, 2003, ... can use various polymers such as rubbers, acrylates, etc., to give them different performance characteristics. They might have high tack or low tack. They can provide high cohesive strength with low adhesive ...

Materials

(Materials)

July 31, 2003, ... warping and bowing, co. says. The lower adhesive moisture content reportedly produces flatter sheets, higher tack, and faster set speeds. Said to allow cutters to run at about 3,000 fpm. In addition, since ...

Products

(Magazine)

July 31, 2003, ... unload stacks of material from the machine. Test Water Vapor Barrier Quickly, Reliably PBI-Dansensor America Inc., Glen Rock, NJ; 201/251-6490; pbi-dansensor.com The Lyssy L80-5000 water vapor permeability ...

What's Ahead for Industrial Ink Jet

(Office Products)

July 31, 2003, ... printing equipment with digital systems. That, however, is many, many years away. Ken Stack is president of Jetrion LLC, a digital printing company offering a fusion of digital ink, hardware, software, ...

A New Enhanced Polyethylene for Extrusion Coating and Laminating

(The Place)

July 31, 2003, ...  A new enhanced PE created with metallocene-catalyst technology is now available for extrusion coating and laminating applications. It offers high hot tack strength and low heat seal initiation temperatures ...

Testing Equipment: Does Your Lab Measure Up?

(Magazine)

July 31, 2003, ... the use of custom probes and sample fixtures, one can generate information relating to all of the components. These could include adhesion, tack, and shear behavior for the adhesive layer and stiffness, ...

An Innovative Approach to Coloring Adhesives & Coatings

(Materials)

June 30, 2003, ... color simply overwhelm the adhesive, cohesive, tack, sealing, etc., properties of most materials. What he wrote about is an approach that allows coloring an adhesive or coating using a new technique.  ...

Size Doesn't Always Matte

(Magazine)

June 30, 2003, ... to process at high speeds without damaging material, co. says. Dual-gripper system stacks material without stopping the machine; traveling clamp gripper grabs the front edge of the sheet and gripper performs ...

Retrofitting Older Sheeters

(Archive)

June 30, 2003, ...  To determine if your sheeter is in good condition, be certain the layboy/piler area remaining after the knife retrofit is mechanically sound. To improve stack quality, upgrades can be made to this ...

On the Move...

(Magazine)

June 30, 2003, ... Stack, president: Gary Swager, VP of Integrated Solutions; Paul Edwards, technical director; Sean Skelly, director of product management; Dean Haertel, director of sales and marketing; Jason Oliver, director ...

Materials

(Materials)

June 29, 2003, ... Benefits in Silence Transilwrap Co. Inc., Franklin Pk., IL; 847/678-1800; transilwrap.com Coating for printable plastics and films acts as a silent or secret adhesive. Gives plastics an ultra-low-tack ...

SunSure: Sun Chemical InkSure Partner to Combat Counterfeit/Diversion Losses

(News | New Products)

June 12, 2003, Sun Chemical Group B.V. reports it has formed a strategic marketing alliance with InkSure Technologies "to attack multi-billion dollar counterfeit and diversion losses." NEW YORK, NY, USA—Sun Chemical Group ...

Products

(Magazine)

May 31, 2003, ... to 5,500 mm. Transport and Accumulate Cut Sheet Paper Stacks Shuttleworth Inc., Huntington, IN; 260/356-8500; shuttleworth.com The Star Roller eliminates the “shingling” or “creeping” of the bottom-most ...

Defoamers or Antifoamers? How Best to Combat Foam

(Magazine)

May 31, 2003, ... information on how these two materials differ. A defoamer is a product that attacks foam which forms in an aqueous product during mixing or use due to the introduction of air. This air forms bubbles ...

Materials

(Materials)

May 31, 2003, ... suited for apparel, upholstery, and bedding, as well as for tagging trees and shrubs in the outdoors. UV Inks Cut Silicone Stacking Problems Water Ink Technologies Inc., Lincolnton, NC; 800/426-4657; ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

May 31, 2003, ... or stacked on a shelf. The PET-based laminated structure features deep golds, purples, and browns, with detailed illustrations of wrapped and unwrapped candies on the front of the bags for identification. ...

Catty Corp.: Flex-Pack Converter

(Flexpack)

May 31, 2003, ... of the Bobst “foil” press, the company was limited to four-color printing on seven other 32-in. rotogravure and flexo presses. Those included a four-color Kidder stack flexo press, a four-color Hudson-Sharp ...

Pack Strat Study IDs Alternative Pouches as 'Next Wave

(News | New Products)

May 20, 2003, ... of Packaging Strategies' studies: five detailed comparative cost economics models. These models," says the publisher, "provide an at-a-glance perspective of how select alternative pouch structures stack ...

OMB Seeks Comments on Costs and Benefits of Federal Regulations

(Magazine)

April 30, 2003, ... areas, including food safety. Homeland security regulations raise unique issues. OMB seeks input on how agencies might assess the probability of future terrorist attacks, the likely damages, and the effectiveness ...

What's New in Narrow We

(Magazine)

April 30, 2003, ...  National Adhesives, unit of National Starch and Chemical Co., Bridgewater, NJ, 800/797-4992; nationalstarch.com Nacor 38-463A waterborne, tackified, acrylic PSA has been developed for paper or film labels ...