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Extrusion Coating Technology For The Imaging Industry

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March 31, 2001, ... achieve only a portion of the total ink jet market. Ink jet ink Receptive coating sometimes with opacifier Face side low density polyethylene (LDPE) typically with pigment Raw base paper Back side ...

Materials

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March 30, 2001, ... Performance Equistar Chemicals LP, Houston, TX; 713/652-7300 Plexar PX3236 is described as a low-cost, high-performance, anhydride-modified, LLDPE tie-layer resin for use in extruding multilayer blown ...

Products

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February 28, 2001, ... Accessories, Services Hole Cutter Is Suited to LDPE Park Air Corp., Brockton, MA; 508/584-3440 Ejecto Plus round-hole cutting tool features a patent-applied-for design that uses the latest geometric ...

Specially Designed Metallocene Copolymers for Extrusion Coating

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February 28, 2001, ... acid copolymers and ionomers. This work compared POP with low density polyethylene (LDPE), linear low density polyethylene (LLDPE), ethylene acrylic acid (EAA) copolymer, ethylene vinyl acetate (EVA) ...

Converting Industry News

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December 31, 2000, ... polymer market. This sector has seen an average annual demand increase of 4%/yr over the period 1995-1999. The use of conventional LDPE accounts for 55% of the demand, but the use of other grades, especially ...

Materials

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November 30, 2000, ... TX; 713/652-4518; equistar.com Petrothene NA214 LDPE resin offers high-speed, lightweight extrusion lamination and coating of flexible packaging, mfr. says. Reportedly can be drawn down to coating weights ...

The Case Against Oxidation as a Primary Factor for Bonding Acid Copolymers to Foil

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November 30, 2000, ... is probably the predominate mechanism for bonding low density polyethylene (LDPE) to foil. A disadvantage of this method is the oxidation of low molecular weight species that impart off-taste and odor ...

Converting Industry News

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November 29, 2000, ... film and inner layers of PE/foil/PE/LLDPE. Solutia's Andres Soto says, "We needed something to prevent the migration of moisture onto the roll of film, which is very moisture-sensitive, so we encapsulated ...

Conference Features New Networking Opportunity

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October 31, 2000, ...  m-LLDPE for Extrusion Coating Applications." Nicole F. Whiteman of Cargill Dow discussed a new family of thermoplastics derived from processed corn. Her paper on "New Packaging Thermoplastic, Polyactide ...

Converting Industry News

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September 30, 2000, ... 1999, and production showed a 6.8% increase over 1998's figures. This group of resins makes up 70% of the total volume of plastic resins sold to and exported from the US each year. LLDPE and PP were ...

Synthetic Paper from Plastics

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September 30, 2000, ... low density polyethylene (LLDPE) with high density polyethylene (HDPE), waste plastic bags, polystyrene (PS), and high impact polystyrene (HIPS) with dolomite (D) and talc (T) fillers. Results All ...

Assessing Real-Life Sealant Performance in Flexible Packaging

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September 30, 2000, ... pouches on a vertical form/fill/seal machine, and tested to determine leaker rates. The paper examines four comparisons. In the comparison of a POP material to a linear low density polyethylene (LLDPE), ...

Eastern European Converter Continues Pioneering Ways

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August 31, 2000, ... rapidly expanded to low-density polyethylene (LDPE), OPP, and multilayer barrier film manufacture (1992). Today, Chemosvit is a privately owned holding company with 18 individual subsidiaries ranging ...

Converting Industry News

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August 31, 2000, ... the plant's capacity to manufacture Exceed metallocene-catalyzed LLDPE. This project provides the plant with a second reactor and increases the company's Exceed capacity in the US to approximately 2 billion ...

More New Products for the Converting Industry

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August 31, 2000, ... edges aligned. Enhanced LLDPE Resins for Films Chevron Chemical, Houston, TX; 800/231-7575 Vytek and Dynex LLDPE resins are said to feature improved physical properties and provide an alternative, ...

When Employees Become Owners... A Happy Ending

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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 ...

Bagmaking Operation Is There When Customers Call

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April 30, 2000, ...  The company has yet another Battenfeld Gloucester film line being set up as this article goes to press. It is a 94-in. line, strictly for LLDPE, that includes many of the same features as the 64-in. ...

Dixie Toga Continues to Make Its Mark as a Leader

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December 31, 1999, ... constructions made at Cambe include PET/ink/adhesive/coextruded polyamide and surlyn/Bynel/PA+EVOH/LDPE/surlyn. A fully equipped, state-of-the-art laboratory in Londrina serves the entire operation ...

Coextrusion: making the equipment fit the need

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June 30, 1996, ... LLDPE [linear low-density polyethylene]." "The strength and clarity properties of metallocenes will enable manufacturers to make products thinner, stronger, and with better optical properties than was ...

International Converting Industry News

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May 31, 1996, ... Petrochemical Co. Ltd. for the provision of engineering design and procurement services for a plant to produce 80,000 tpa of LDPE and ethylene vinyl acetate. The facility will use the technology of ...