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- Electrically Heated Rollers Are Top Technology Choice
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- March 31, 2000, ... rubber, and high-release formulations. The Thermalon RI200 roller is well suited for high-pressure laminating, adhesive or web melting, web preheating (upstream of another process such as laminating), ...
- FPA Winners Prove Again How to Do More with Less
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- February 29, 2000, The Flexible Packaging Association (FPA), Washington, DC, presented its 1999 Top Packaging Awards to seven companies for flexible packages that broke The Flexible Packaging Association (FPA), Washington, ...
- High-Barrier Packaging: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
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- January 31, 2000, ... says his company has been involved in the market since the mid-70s. "In barrier packaging, we use tie-layer adhesives [polyolefins that bond dissimilar polymers together in a multilayer structure], and ...
- Narrow web adapts to multiple applications
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- November 30, 1998, ... materials such as shrink sleeves, adhesives and ultraviolet inks in the proper temperature range for trouble-free converting. With the proliferation of exotic substrates and water-based inks, surface ...
- Oxide-coated films are still finding their market niche
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- November 30, 1996, ... soups and stews are on the German market with PET/SiOx/Adhesive/PET/seal from Lawson Mardon. The firm also supplies Bell of Base, the Swiss firm, with pasteurized, refrigerated "Quick Meats" in stand-up ...
- Pointing finger places blame but won't solve the proble
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- November 30, 1996, ... packaging industry does not work properly. The construction might be as simple as one flexible substrate laminated to another with an adhesive. It can also be considerably more complex, with inks, adhesives, ...
- EPA and printers join forces to evaluate inks.
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- October 31, 1996, ... rub resistance * tape adhesiveness * blocking * mottle/lay * ice water crinkle resistance * heat resistance/heat seal * coefficient of friction * print density * coat weight ...
- Flexible packaging converter treats its customers right.
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- October 31, 1996, ... The surface of the printed substrate and the metallized inner film are laminated with adhesive. However, metallized film presents a problem, because it requires a relatively high dyne level to adhere ...
- Taking the "magic" and the mystery out of treatin
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- August 31, 1996, ... are chemically inert because of their nonpolar nature. This inertness makes it impossible for inks, coatings, and adhesives to adhere. Surface treatment - spark gap treating, metal electrode treating, ...
- Partnering launches future growth in laminations
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- August 31, 1996, ... Chase & Sons, Webster, MA, a div. of Chase Corp., is introducing innovative process technology into their niche with the use of 100% solids adhesives from Morton Chemical while employing a new coater/laminator ...
- Laminator adds metallizing to the mix
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- August 31, 1996, ... to customer-specified humidity levels, it is hermetically sealed in shrinkwrap before shipment or storage. Alubec uses water-based lacquers and adhesives. "It's more than ecology; we have to give the ...
- Taking the measure of surface treatment is a learning process
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- August 31, 1996, ... of laminated films - particularly with the growing popularity of water-based inks, coatings, and adhesives. The surface energy of a solid polymer cannot be measured directly because solids typically ...
- MSC Specialty Films reaches success down to the core
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- May 31, 1996, ... impression can result in hundreds of feet of defective film." He adds that the unique surface characteristics of the StarTech core also permits repeated removal and positioning of adhesive tapes. "If there ...
- Green Bay gears up for specialty labels
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- May 31, 1996, ... for curing. The second coating station applies a water-based, pressure-sensitive adhesive, using the reverse gravure method. Both coating stations use a fountainless/enclosed applicator featuring an internal ...
- Paper characteristics: starting the job right
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- April 30, 1996, ... and ultimate impact of a finished printed product, the base stock often plays the most critical role. The choice of such variables as adhesives, inks, and coatings depends in large part of the type of ...
- AIMCAL Selects Seven for Annual Honors
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- March 31, 1996, ... graphics, a 2-mil brushed polyester, a pressure-sensitive adhesive, and release liner. It uses a "revolutionary" manufacturing process to contrast the black print and semi-transparent blue logo against ...
- Hot melt applications continue to grow
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- June 30, 1995, ... state of flux, how well and how quickly organizations adapt to change is more than a choice; it is a matter of survival. Manufacturers of hot melt adhesives and application equipment have quietly been ...
- Film offers food packagers green marketing opportunity
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- April 30, 1995, ... Standard Melinex 813 is a pretreated PET film offering improved surface adhesion for inks and adhesive laminations. It's favored by many food packagers and converters over other films both PET and non-PET, ...
- Conserving weight, space earns praise for flexible
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- March 31, 1995, ... to the landfills in one year. The package was switched from a paper wrapper and folding box to 48-gauge polyester, flexo-reverse printed and adhesive laminated to a 1.5-mil white low-density polyethylene ...
- Printing system offers quality performance
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- February 28, 1995, A solventborne rotogravure printing-ink system that provides ultralow retained solvents when adhesive or extrusion-laminating treated and on polyvinylidene-chloride A solventborne rotogravure printing-ink ...