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Collaboration with OEMs Advances Mono-material Packaging Solutions

(Bag Pouch)

March 15, 2025, ... enabling mono-material all-polyethylene (PE) structures that are designed for easier sorting and recycling. In a survey of CPG brands, packaging original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), and material ...

Nobelus Launches Thermal Sealants for Digital Converters

(News | New Products)

March 5, 2025, ... for flexible packaging, prime labels, and commercial print, is stepping into flexible packaging structures with EcoElement™ PE Thermal Sealants. This line of polyethylene sealants enables thermal converters ...

Paper — Still The Foundation of Substrates

(Print)

February 22, 2025, ... or barrier properties. Some plastics like polyethylene seal well to paper, such as dental bibs with absorbent tissue on the front side and poly backside. The range of properties of papers are sought ...

Challenges, Solutions and Future Paperboard Packaging Trends

(Coating/Laminating)

February 15, 2025, Thermoplastics such as polyethylene (LDPE and HDPE) and less commonly, polyethylene terephthalate (PET) By lan Benore, Quality and Product Development Manager, Greif Thermoplastics such as polyethylene ...

Delivering Packaging Sustainability Through Pigment, Ink, Coating and Adhesive Technologies

(Coating/Laminating)

January 16, 2025, ... coatings can replace polyethylene (PE) films in paper applications, for example, which makes the recycle-friendly transition from plastic to paper, or "paperization," more attainable. They can also allow ...

A Leader in Bag Converting Solutions

(Bag Pouch)

January 15, 2025, ... along with a dedicated worldwide support staff ready to meet your needs. ARES 400-SUP The Hudson-Sharp brand has long been a leader in polybag machinery and polyethylene (PE) pouches, now redefining ...

Path to Sustainability According to Nordmeccanica

(Coating/Laminating)

December 4, 2024, ... is in fact the solution. Through the extrusion process, the PE-based film achieves new properties that help a structure made exclusively by polyethylene better address product protection targets. That ...

ARC Honors Award Winners at R2R Conference USA

(News | New Products)

November 12, 2024, ... multilayer materials based on metallized polyethylene terephthalate substrates. The mono-material, paper-based flexible packaging offers an oxygen transmission rate of < 1 cm³/(m² d) and a water vapor ...

NBi Technologies Receives Child Resistant Certification for PCR Stand Up Pouch Test Results Meet Requirements for Poison Prevention Packaging MUKWONAGO

(News | New Products)

November 5, 2024, ... comes to life. The green sustainable packaging is constructed of a 114-micron film of post-consumer recycled polyethylene (PCR PE); the zipper is polyethylene (PE). The CR PCR Stand Up Pouch submitted ...

Shurtape® Expands Line of Sustainable Packaging Tapes with Launch of rPET Recycled Packaging Tapes

(News | New Products)

August 5, 2024, ... in Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) bottles and rigid containers, and are designed to significantly reduce the use of virgin plastic in end-of-line packaging while continuing to provide the durability ...

Innovating Safety Child-Resistant Stand-Up Pouches that Meet Sustainability Goals

(Bag Pouch)

July 7, 2024, ... the polyethylene slide closure, which incorporates PCR material for sustainability and necessitates a precise sequence of actions to un- lock. Sliders combined with attractive film properties can provide ...

NOVA Chemicals Receives FDA LNO for Plastic Films Mechanical Recycling Process at Indiana Facility

(News | New Products)

June 17, 2024, ... the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) confirming the capability of its mechanical recycling process in Connersville, Ind., to produce post-consumer recycled linear, low-density polyethylene (rLLDPE) ...

Flexible Packaging — In a Constant Cycle of Evolution

(Flexpack)

June 16, 2024, ... (PET), Metallized Polypropylene (MPP) Ethylene Vinyl Alcohol (EVOH), Polypropylene (PP), Polyethylene (PE) and Nylon (PA) are the most common materials creating many of the laminate structures used in ...

Demand Increasing for PCR Plastics: How Recycled PE supports Sustainable Packaging Solutions

(Flexpack)

June 13, 2024, ... for PCR plastic will triple by 2030 to about 90 million tons.2 As one of the most common and versatile plastics in packaging, polyethylene (PE) represents a significant opportunity for building recycling ...

Obtaining Barriers When Coating and Printing Flexible Materials

(Bag Pouch)

June 9, 2024, ... easier to decide upon. Film manufacturers and formulators produce modified structures from polymers such as polyethylene, polyester and poly-propylene. Polyethylene for example, when modified and in ...

FPA Announces 2024 Board of Directors

(News | New Products)

April 30, 2024, ... Corporation; Mark Lewis, CEO, Wikoff Color Corporation; Sarah Marshall, Vice President of Polyethylene Marketing, NOVA Chemicals, Inc.; Apurva Shah, Vice President of Strategy & Customer Development, Charter ...

Creating a Circular Packaging Value Chain: How collaboration with suppliers helps converters meet brand owner demands

(News | New Products)

April 28, 2024, ... between resin suppliers, converters, and brand owners, we can learn from our trials and work together to create tangible changes for a better world. ABOUT THE AUTHOR John Avolio is the polyethylene ...

Principles of Narrow Web Slitting

(Web Handling)

April 10, 2024, ... tissue to dual-sided rolls; films ranging from stiffer polyester to thin-stretchy polyethylene; and stability presented by machine-direction (MD) and cross-direction (CD) strength issues. When I worked ...

Principles of Narrow Web Slitting

(Converting Perspectives)

April 8, 2024, ... dual-sided rolls; films ranging from stiffer polyester to thin-stretchy polyethylene; and stability presented by machine-direction (MD) and cross-direction(CD) strength issues. When I worked at a nonwovens ...

UFlex Begins Commercial Production of Poly-Condensed Polyester Chips in Panipat, India, and a CPP Packaging Film production in Russia

(News | New Products)

April 1, 2024, ... the existing capacity of one 8.7-meter-wide Biaxially Oriented Polyethylene Terephthalate (BOPET) Film Line with a capacity of 30,000 TPA and one 2.85-meter-wide plasma enhanced avant-garde metallizer ...