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- 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 ...
- Flexible Packaging: Capital Commitments
- (Flexpack)
- February 28, 2010, ... that requires barrier from oxygen, odor, moisture, or oil…we can now enter those markets.” Eco-Efficient Laminations The purchase of a Nordmeccanica Super Simplex SL laminator, made in November 2009, ...
- Click To Pick
- (New Products)
- February 28, 2010, ... overall thickness or raw materials content. Microlayer technology is said to allow extrusion processors and converters to achieve increases in impact strength, elongation, oxygen and moisture barrier, ...
- Multiplying Key Coex Layers Improves Properties
- (New Products)
- February 28, 2010, ... is said to allow extrusion processors and converters to achieve increases in impact strength, elongation, oxygen and moisture barrier, and other properties. Potential applications range from industrial ...
- US Packaging Inks, Coatings & Additives Demand to Reach $3 billion in 2013
- (News | New Products)
- February 17, 2010, ... such as paper and paperboard, metal, and glass. Coatings and additives will benefit from increasing barrier requirements as plastic packaging is developed for a widening array of applications. The growing ...
- Bagmaking: Cleaning Up on F/F/S
- (Substrates)
- January 31, 2010, ... oxygen-barrier substrates. The substrates produced are both durable and 100% recyclable. Plastixx operates 72-in. Varex blown film lines from Windmoeller & Hoelscher (W&H) and also has eight-color printing ...
- Nonwovens Converting: H1N1 Antidote
- (Substrates)
- January 31, 2010, ... this unique film is said to provide an exceptional combination of barrier properties and breathability. The film is easily laminated with a wide variety of substrates using several methods. At Kappler, ...
- Hot Melt Needs No Primary Coat
- (Narrow Web)
- December 31, 2009, ... the performance of products for “semi-freezer” applications. Reportedly demonstrates an exceptionally low penetration behavior on basic paper without a primary coat, a barrier, or top coating. This results ...
- AIMCAL Announces Matteucci Technical Excellence Awards
- (News | New Products)
- October 21, 2009, ... ALD [Atomic Layer Deposition] of Al2O 3 [Aluminum Oxide] Barrier layers on PET,” and David Levy of Eastman Kodak Co., for “Spatial Atomic Layer Deposition: High-Quality Films on Continuous Substrates,” ...
- New Roles for Converters
- (Archive)
- September 30, 2009, ... effective, high quality, low-cost manufacturing process. One of the major barriers to commercialization of some of these products (solar cells and fuel cells) is that the first-generation products were ...
- WHAT'S NEW PRODUCT
- (New Products)
- September 30, 2009, ... company says, and provides sustainability advantages in cereal, snack, baking mix, and other high-barrier applications. Also said to use less plastic resin, energy, and landfill space. Offers savings in ...