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Film Converting: Luminit Films Shape Light

(Substrates)

September 30, 2008, ... the customer, delivering maximum brilliance and clarity. “The backlighting has only a certain number of photons,” explains Kao, “so when it comes out, we can control everything to the viewer's eye to get ...

Web Lines: Thinking About New Equipment?

(Web Handling)

January 31, 2008, ... new equipment. If you are lucky enough to be handed a project to buy new converting equipment, take some time not only to think about the “value adding” process involved (coating, printing, etc.) but also ...

Going Thin

(Slit)

June 29, 2007, Thinner gauge materials impact both on operating costs and the environment. The difficulty with going thin is that problems such as wrinkling, air entrapment, and tension control, and various other problems ...

AWA Publishes Vacuum Coated Papers & Films Sourcebook

(Archive)

June 16, 2007, ... coated by direct and transfer processes. The study provides in-depth statistics on regional markets, drawing on an enhanced base of input from within the industry worldwide, and assesses the trends in ...

Specialty Film Demand to Approach $7.3 Billion in 2010

(Archive)

April 11, 2007, PRESS RELEASE CLEVELAND, OH—Demand for specialty films is forecast to advance 4.8% per year to $7.3 billion in 2010. Gains will be driven by increasing performance requirements in a number of markets, ...

Managing the Ink Films

(Process Management)

October 31, 2006, ... split several times, offset inks are highly pigmented. Extremely thin-film, high-viscosity ink, which is printed from an essentially flat surface, leads to high-fidelity print. From run to run, and during ...

Films Face Off

(Magazine)

June 29, 2006, ... per unit of area. Thickness often is measured in terms of gauge (ga). A lower gauge number indicates a thinner film. Downgauging, or reducing the thickness, can help reduce overall costs, but some films ...

Applied Materials to Acquire Applied Films

(Archive)

May 09, 2006, ... be able to serve a larger number of thin film requirements. The acquisition is subject to regulatory and Applied Films shareholder approval and is expected to be completed in Applied Materials’ fourth ...

From Foil to Film

(Magazine)

April 29, 2006, ... at up to 200 W/cm arc length. A removable slide-out cassette houses all lamphead service items; lamp replacement reportedly can be achieved within 5 min. Market Share to Grow The F-Combat will enable ...

Applied Films Receives Innovation Award

(Archive)

March 13, 2006, ICE (Intl. Converting Exhibition) honored Applied Films with its 2005 Innovation Award for Applied Films' Fabry Perot Filter, which produces color shift layers on plastic film by using electron-beam evaporation. ...

Biodegradable Films Today

(Flexpack)

April 29, 2005, ... make a purchase. For many years, the industry touted plastic bags as being more environmentally conscious, because they saved the trees growing in forests. Now the thinking may be changing. Using paper ...

Clean Thinking

(Magazine)

March 30, 2005, What is your definition of clean? What people think of as "clean enough" in their home is staggeringly different. Hopefully, your definition for your converting operation is the same as that of your customers. ...

Film Opens New Markets

(Magazine)

February 27, 2005, ... production speeds but to divert equipment previously used for silicone coating to more profitable applications. Today’s new coextruded PET films are made with a thin coextruded sheet consisting of a ...

Who Likes Film?

(Magazine)

December 30, 2004, Customers like films because they are cool. Films can be clear, thin, shiny, clean, and elastic. Product designers like films because they are functional. Films can improve a product’s break strength, ...

A Universal Film for Flex-Pack?

(Flexpack)

December 30, 2004, ... everything? Some students take longer than others to ascertain that a universal solvent is not possible, because no container could hold it. In a similar vein, new employees in the adhesive industry ...

Dec. 7-9: AMI's Polyethylene Films 2004 Will Focus on North American Industr

(Archive)

November 21, 2004, ... in thin gauge flat film production (Extrusion Dies industries), and adding value with hedging (Natexis Metals). For further details on Polyethylene Films 2004, contact Margit Korsat at AMI, 610/478-0800 ...

Rise & Fall of Printed Film COF

(Flexpack)

June 29, 2004, ... the film itself. The printed film COF will drop over time as the slip agents distribute themselves within the film and the ink layer. If the printed film has retained solvent, this will cause a higher ...

Binary Blends of EVA and Metallocene Catalyzed Ethylene-a-Olefin Copolymers & Their Film Properties

(Magazine)

June 29, 2004, ... Particularly in the case of metallocene catalyzed POPs, this issue has great significance because their low shear thinning characteristics can cause processability problems. MFI increases gradually as ...

Film Wettability Not So Simple

(Magazine)

March 31, 2004, ... faster ink flowout, reducing the amount of energy necessary to dry the thinner ink film. The effectiveness of corona treating depends on the film itself and its composition. Treatment of high slip films ...

Cast Film Lines for Barrier Films

(The Place)

October 31, 2003, ... roll unit Thickness gauge Winder. Gravimetric dosing is an indispensable component of any state-of-the-art cast film line. Depending on the function of the individual extruders within ...