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- What’s In Your Flexible Packaging?
- (Upcoming Conference News)
- March 11, 2024, ... on the use of novel additives to improve the performance of polyethylene resins. Discussions will focus on how additives are being used to improve barrier performance in HDPE and the ongoing search for ...
- FPA: The State of the U.S. Flexible Packaging Industry
- (Print)
- March 10, 2024, ... and resins accounted for the largest spend for converters with the two categories making up over two-thirds of material purchases — films are 47 percent; resins are 23 percent. Within films, polyethylene ...
- At Paris Packaging Week, Hoffmann Neopac AG Introduces Range of LowPro Caps Compatible with EcoDesign Tubes
- (News | New Products)
- January 22, 2024, ... Neopac’s sustainable tube offerings, including: 35-50mm-diameter extruded tubes crafted from sugarcane, recycled resins, and PICEA™ spruce wood materials. 35-50mm-diameter Polyfoil® EcoPro tubes ...
- TekniPlex Healthcare to Expand Cleanroom Film and Bag Production with New Multilayer Blown Film Line
- (News | New Products)
- January 21, 2024, ... bags to those comprised of pharma-grade resins produced in GMP cleanroom conditions. In addition, TekniPlex’ customers have expressed a need for higher barrier solutions requiring multilayer film/bag capabilities. ...
- World’s Largest VCI Film Plant is Increasing Capacity with New State-of-the-Art Extrusion Line
- (News | New Products)
- January 11, 2024, ... + ESD protection). Each of these requires special resins that go in different film layers for better performance and/or cost-effectiveness of the final product. Certain characteristics also make E23 preferred ...
- At IPPE Show, TekniPlex Consumer Products to Showcase Fiber-Based Cartons and Other Sustainable Packaging Solutions for Eggs, Meat & Poultry
- (News | New Products)
- January 03, 2024, ... committed to improving product performance along with eco-friendliness, and are committed to the mantra that progress on both fronts can occur in tandem. Sustainable resins and fiber-based packaging constructions ...
- Toray Applies Market-Leading Letterpress Technology to Develop Printing Industry’s First Fully Water Developable Flexographic Plate
- (News | New Products)
- November 27, 2023, ... use of organic solvents or additives. Development: removing resins from non-image areas to form visible images. Toray dominates the global photosensitive letterpress market with TORELIEF™, reflecting ...
- Materials Lead The Way
- (Web Handling)
- November 26, 2023, ... fibers, resins and all the raw strands that come together to form a web. Web forming processes determine how the items above make a continuous mat that has certain strength (tensile, tear, machine direction, ...
- ARC Announces Winners of Best Paper Awards
- (News | New Products)
- November 18, 2023, ... the US Department of Energy, will enable the circular upcycling of plastic wastes into virgin resins and how STRAP allows recycling of multilayer plastics and mixed plastics. The 2023 edition of the ...
- Sun Chemical Employee Receives NAPIM’s Technical Achievement Award
- (News | New Products)
- October 02, 2023, ... weight resins. He developed solutions to meet the industry’s needs for higher press speeds, introduced new barrier coatings that lightweight packaging and enhance shelf life, designed Mirrortech™ technology ...
- Sabic and Partners Introduce First In-Mold Labeling Solution With Certified Polymers for Food Packaging Containers
- (News | New Products)
- September 28, 2023, ... specialists in the field of in-mold labeling (IML) to demonstrate the use of certified renewable polypropylene (PP) resins in high quality mono-PP thin-wall container packaging without compromising quality, ...
- Rudolf Commissions Baldwin’s TexCoat™ G4 Lab-scale Precision Spray Unit
- (News | New Products)
- September 13, 2023, ... water-based chemicals, such as durable water-repellants including PFAS-free, softeners, anti-microbials, easy care resins, flame retardants and more. Baldwin’s innovative technology utilizes the same chemicals ...
- Advancing Curing/Drying Trends: A Pathway to Sustainable Bio-based Coating Solutions
- (Coating/Laminating)
- August 27, 2023, ... resources such as agriculture waste, cellulose, protein, geopolymers, plant-based oils, natural resins and biopolymers, offering a viable alternative to petroleum-derived raw materials6. Bio-based coatings ...
- How Barrier Properties Impact Your Barbecue and Beyond
- (Flexpack)
- August 06, 2023, ... for those delicious charcuterie boards. All of which share a product-specific type of sealant film engineered from complex additives, resins and extrusion technologies to provide the food safety and performance ...
- Learning Center: Sustainable Wipes Packaging 101
- (News | New Products)
- August 02, 2023, ... shelf life and packaging equipment requirements. Post-consumer recycled resins for wipes packaging can be sourced from plastic items such as PET water bottles Wipes packaging made from post-consumer ...
- What’s Special About Films and Synthetics?
- (Converting Perspectives)
- July 09, 2023, ... of strength. When this can be achieved without adding to weight or thickness, it’s a winner. A change of fibers, resins, or blends may do well; Higher absorbency, or alternatively, better hold out to ...
- Two Sun Chemical Employees Honored with NAPIM Awards
- (News | New Products)
- March 31, 2023, ... as high production volume resins for flexible packaging that enables quality graphics and high-performance lamination. Under his management, Sun Chemical is in the process of rolling out the next generation ...
- Toyo Ink Group Signs Share Purchase Agreement to Wholly Acquire Thai Eurocoat
- (News | New Products)
- March 13, 2023, ... with the establishment of Toyo Ink Thailand. Over the years, we’ve expanded our business by taking advantage of our ability to develop advanced resins, mainly for can coatings that require high functionality. ...
- Achieving Sustainability: Q&A with Sun Chemical’s Dr. Nikola Juhasz
- (Coating/Laminating)
- March 12, 2023, ... market offerings. One example, the SunSpectro® SolvaGreen flexographic and gravure solvent-based ink family, features naturally derived resins and additives for surface printing on biodegradable films. ...
- How a Full Lineup of Coatings Can Transform Packaging
- (Coating/Laminating)
- February 07, 2023, ... The performance of these nanocomposite barriers is much improved over typical PVdC and EVOH barrier resins typically used in packaging films. While most commercial activity today is in the area of dry ...