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- 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, ...
- Appleton Papers Sells Performance Packaging Division
- (Trends/Management)
- August 03, 2010, ... The company designs and produces a complete line of mono, co-extrusion and up to nine-layer barrier films. Appleton Performance Packaging’s operations consist of three strategically placed manufacturing ...
- 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 ...
- Protecting Milk From Light
- (Carton Box)
- July 31, 2010, ... a barrier is used, the products are exposed to sufficient light to cause quality changes.” The study compared Elopak's classic carton with bleached board and its carton with duplex clay-coated unbleached ...
- 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 ...
- Nordmeccanica, Dow Hold Earth Day Demos
- (Coating/Laminating)
- June 30, 2010, ... of Portco Packaging, Vancouver, WA. The afternoon session consisted of demonstrating a lamination of a high-barrier structure with no outgassing-related defects, despite the high lamination speed. Adhesive ...
- 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 ...
- Grip & Grin
- (Bag Pouch)
- May 31, 2010, Grip & Grin Cryovac Grip & Tear non-barrier bags from Sealed Air, Duncan, SC, provide an easy-open vacuum package for poultry with superior shrink and Grip & Grin Cryovac Grip & Tear non-barrier bags ...
- Converting Industry News Clips
- (News Clips Archive)
- May 31, 2010, ... to develop an environmentally friendly compostable barrier-sealant PLA packaging film that delivers the performance of conventional films. Toyo Ink Mfg. Co., Tokyo, Japan, establishes São Paulo-based ...
- Metallized BOPP Plant Producing
- (Flexpack)
- May 31, 2010, NORTH KINGSTOWN, RI | Toray Plastics (America) reports Toray Films Europe has achieved its first commercial volumes of BOPP high-barrier metallized film NORTH KINGSTOWN, RI | Toray Plastics (America) reports ...
- Drives Retrofit: More Space, Less Power
- (Slit)
- May 31, 2010, ... as well as barrier films and heat-sealable films used to protect snacks, cheeses, meats, fresh produce, fruit, and candy bars. Rapid expansion of its business, including several strategic acquisitions, ...
- Flexpack: Slider Bags
- (Flexpack)
- May 20, 2010, ... bag with expensive peel-seal film to provide a fill barrier on one side and an easy-peel seal on the other. To help drive costs out of the bag and improve performance for both packagers and consumers, ...
- Toray Plastics Announces Commercialization of European Plant
- (News | New Products)
- May 12, 2010, ... that Toray Films Europe has achieved its first commercial volumes of bi-axially oriented polypropylene (BOPP) high-barrier metallized film for packaging applications. In September 2008, Toray Films ...
- 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 ...
- Techniques to Prevent/Minimize Die Lines
- (Tom’s Poly Ploys)
- April 28, 2010, ... anywhere near zero. Let me give a detailed example that I have direct experience with to illustrate my point. Let’s assume the following: A converter has a 5-layer flexible packaging barrier blown film ...