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Green Trends Prevail

(Flexpack)

February 28, 2011, ... cups (see Figure 2). Dart Container Corp. had the lion's share of foam cup production (see Figure 3). Sustainability Issues for Paper Cups Newer, more consistent, heat barrier multilayer substrates ...

Market Update: Coating & Laminating Special Report: Still Growing

(Flexpack)

January 31, 2011, In the world of packaging, vacuum-coated products offer converters and brand owners three key properties: barrier, aesthetics, and sustainability. Barrier In the world of packaging, vacuum-coated products ...

Mocon Installs Permeation Units at High-Altitude Tibetan Lab

(Controls News)

January 10, 2011, ... such as vials, pouches, bottles, blister cavities and syringes. However, in Lhasa, the units primarily will be used for high barrier testing of packaging structures with either aluminum foil or metallized ...

Packaging Paper: Better Days Ahead?

(Flexpack)

September 30, 2010, ... segment involves the addition of a functional coating or barrier treatment of some type and includes applications mostly in the release paper, one-ply packaging, foodservice paper, and multiwall bag categories ...

Flexo Printing: Smart Press, Even Smarter Buy

(Flexpack)

August 31, 2010, ... preservation. Although EB 1 looks like a laminated bag and boasts similar grease barrier and strength properties, it is 100% recyclable as a polyethylene product. Richard Pileski, sales manager at Hood' ...

Flex Americas To Double BOPET Production

(Flexpack)

August 15, 2010, ... another 8.7-m-wide Dornier BOPET line along with a plasma-enhanced high-barrier vacuum metallizer, another US $50 million will be invested to turn out 36,000 MT (80 million lb). With the new line in Mexico, ...

Bill Smith

(Trends/Management)

July 31, 2010, ... for high-barrier materials. What do you do for customers that makes them come back? We provide our customers with solutions that have gone unaccomplished by others (i.e., enveloping an entire aircraft ...

You Get what You Pay For, or Caveat Emptor.

(Tom’s Poly Ploys)

July 15, 2010, ...  Quality comes in two flavors: Quality of Design and Quality of Manufacturing. End users of barrier films for example expect to receive the product that was designed and made to exacting specifications, ...

Gaining Speed

(Flexpack)

July 08, 2010, ... gain versus solvent-based lamination. Technology can be applied to typical barrier laminations such as metallized PET, aluminum foil, and clear films. Visit www.ampaconline.com. Did you produce a cool ...

HP Explores Flexpack, Certifies Media Partners

(Yo's Yarns)

June 22, 2010, ... Guy of Michelman, global business manager Flexible Packaging, commented on water-based barrier and functional coatings for flexible film packaging, paperboard, corrugated and folding cartons; and Kirit ...

Flexpack: DuPont Honors Innovation

(Flexpack)

May 31, 2010, ... outer bag, along with a compostable adhesive and inner barrier coating. The result is a bag that uses renewable materials and allows for new disposal options such as composting, which diverts packaging ...

Frito-Lay names Toray its Supplier of the Year

(News | New Products)

May 02, 2010, ... compostable barrier-sealant PLA film that delivers the performance of conventional films." Toray Plastics (America) is a leader in the development and manufacture of high-performance sustainable films, ...

A time to celebrate

(Special Reports)

April 30, 2010, ... Vacuum Deposit Barrier Coatings; and Troubleshooting-Process/Adhesion/Vacuum. A 2009 Sustainability Series offered five sessions on what is probably the hottest topic in the industry. Sheppard says webinar ...

A future for photovoltaics

(Metallizing)

April 30, 2010, Some areas of vacuum web coating have progressed in the past decade, others have lagged behind. A hot topic 20 years ago was transparent barrier coatings. Some areas of vacuum web coating have progressed ...

Plants for Pretzels

(First Glance)

April 30, 2010, ... a year of R&D, Clear Lam replaced conventional petroleum-based plastics with material derived primarily from renewable Ingeo PLA from NatureWorks. To create the appropriate oxygen- and moisture-barrier ...

Mocon-Certified Mumbai Testing Lab Earns Independent Certification

(News | New Products)

April 26, 2010, ... under the ISO/IEC 17025:2005 standard for oxygen and water vapor permeation testing of plastic barrier materials. The government of India has authorized NABL as the accreditation body for testing and ...

Narrow Web's Leverag

(Label/Tape)

March 31, 2010, ... in today's marketplace, the internal barrier materials prevent foreign substances, gases, odors, or chemicals from entering or exiting the package. And, in some cases, manufacturers are putting more effort ...

Multipack Juices It Up

(Metallizing)

March 31, 2010, ... and coating passes, but in addition a metallized film's barrier properties also can be increased, as topcoating immediately after metallizing protects the metallized surface from microscratches and defects ...

AIMCAL Awards

(Coating/Laminating)

March 21, 2010, ... barrier properties. A PLA replacement of PP reduces consumption of petrochemical-based film by about 1 million lb/yr, and the Ingeo resin consumes about 50% less fossil fuel than production of PP.  ...

Flexible Packaging: Narrow Web's Leverag

(Flexpack)

March 21, 2010, ... the internal barrier materials prevent foreign substances, gases, odors or chemicals from entering or exiting the package. And, in some cases, manufacturers are putting more effort into simply repackaging ...