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The Global Metallizing Market

(Magazine)

January 31, 2004, ... film coatings have promised much for many years but still fail to take off outside niche areas, such as uses in Japan for clear barrier flexible packaging and in Europe for microwavable pouches. “Metallized ...

Darwin Would Approve

(Unprinted Rolls)

January 30, 2004, ... to achieve improved barrier properties and better metal adhesion.” The new metallizers will be integrated with two new Galileo slitter/rewinders and related automatic roll handling equipment. “Rolls ...

Products and Materials

(Magazine)

December 30, 2003, ... copolyester extruded film for wound dressing and surgical drape and gown fabrication. Said to provide good barrier properties and can be laminated to a variety of substrates. Product, which is available ...

European Report Covers Flex-Pack Industry in Depth

(Flexpack)

November 30, 2003, ... (US), the industry is characterized by a strong market for sophisticated barrier multilayer laminations and coextrusions. “Like the Turkish flexible packaging industry, some Israeli converters are supplying ...

Totally Rockin' Metal

(Magazine)

November 30, 2003, ... polyethylene (PE) film in terms of barrier properties and outer appearance. They succeeded in meeting the specifications first by reverse printing the outer iented polypropylene (OPP) film, then laminating ...

International Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

November 30, 2003, ... Engineering. The line, installed in the 140,000-sq-ft Flexa Div. plant (located in Cali), runs high-barrier film for flexible laminations, 3.5-5.0 mil thick and 35-72 in. wide. Flexa's project engineer ...

Film Supplier Klockner Pentaplast Acquires Greenway Plastics, Slated to Open Brazil PVC Plant

(News | New Products)

October 21, 2003, ... it will relocate the manufacturing assets to its Beaver, WV, facility. "The purchase of Greenway Plastics is a logical product portfolio enchancement for our specialty barrier film product lines," adds ...

Furthering Substrate Functionality

(Magazine)

September 30, 2003, ... says Broomfield, to the polymer film. “It's also used to improve barrier. The barrier property improvement, in most cases, comes from the adhesion improvement,” he adds. But some companies are taking ...

Converter Panel Attracts Interest at Conference

(The Place)

September 30, 2003, ... healthcare industry, flexible packaging laminations, barrier products, films, adhesives, etc. Other sessions involving panels that addressed topics of current interest to the audience at the conference ...

Meeting the Need

(Materials)

September 30, 2003, ... is called ideal for food, dairy, lidding, coffee, personal care, pharmaceutical, board lamination, and electronic applications. The films reportedly provide excellent oxygen barrier properties as well ...

Division Issues Call for Papers

(The Place)

September 30, 2003, ... be part of the program. Packaging subjects will include barrier, medical, and microwaveable packaging and recycling and environmentally friendly packaging. The meeting will also include topics relating ...

Products

(Magazine)

September 29, 2003, ... metallizers in the field as well as its own. Said to provide significant improvement in both oxygen and water barriers, system also reportedly allows some previously unmetallizable films to be metallized. ...

Adhesion of Coatings to Aluminum Foil

(The Place)

August 31, 2003, ... in the case of adhesion failure. This is not a hopeless case because such specific migration problems can be overcome by choosing the most appropriate coating resin. Improvements to the fat barrier ...

International Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

August 31, 2003, ...  Supplier News Unique Cast Film Line Operating in China Macro Engineering reports it shipped, in June 2003, a “one-of-a-kind” seven-layer, 2.4-m-wide cast barrier film line to a Chinese manufacturer ...

Europe: Label's Leade

(Tapes)

August 31, 2003, ... barrier-coated PET beer bottles. European Trends in Label Printing P-s label production is increasingly narrow web ultraviolet (UV) flexo oriented in Europe. The glue-applied label market in Europe ...

Materials

(Materials)

August 31, 2003, ...  Barrier Films Offered in Five, Seven Layers Pliant Corp., Schaumburg, IL; 330/896-6732; pliantcorp.com Five- and seven-layer coextrusions of EVOH and nylon barrier films are available. A combined ...

Considering China

(Magazine)

August 31, 2003, ... Converters (AICC). “I think most of our members [are] not in favor of trade barriers. They're in favor of a free market. We can't put a wall up around the country. But, by the same token, what's wrong with ...

Pack Expo: Winning Packaging Materials Pavilion Spotlighted in Vegas

(News | New Products)

August 10, 2003, ... that help enhance branding efforts without sacrificing barrier properties, machine capability, or versatility." He adds, "Included in the exhibits will be advancements in plastics, resins, films, glass, ...

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 ...

Active Packaging

(Flexpack)

July 31, 2003, ... food preservation providing anti-microbial properties in addition to basic barrier packaging properties. Incorporating microbicidal or microbistatic agents achieves the same functionality in the packaging ...