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- UV Protection of Hot Melt Adhesives for Packaging Applications
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- October 31, 2000, ... backing can consist of paper, polymer films, paper laminates, foil, or fabrics. The adhesive layer can be a pressure sensitive adhesive selected from many different types at coating weights of 2-12 mils. ...
- Materials
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- September 30, 2000, New materials from: API Foils, Chris Craft Industrial Products, Ciba Specialty Chemicals, Cognis Coatings & Inks, Eastman Chemical, Klockner Capital Corp., Kraton Polymers, and Menges Roller Co. Substrates, ...
- Nitrocellulose, Solvents, Recycling, and Safety
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- September 30, 2000, ... are used and cleaned with a variety of solvents with a wide range of boiling points. Low- boiling flammable solvents such as alcohols, ethyl acetate, and methyl ethyl ketone (MEK) commonly are used. These ...
- Bringing Together the Many Benefits of Film and Paper
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- September 30, 2000, ... and converts like paper but has the advantages of a moisture barrier and resistance to oils and fats. Based at Peterborough, Harrier Packaging was set up in August 1998 with a œ3 million investment ...
- Reporter Clips
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- August 31, 2000, ... Blvd., Charlotte, NC 28273; ph: 704/504-5008; fax: 704/504-5011; e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. HoloPRISM Labels Provide Out-of-This-World Results When Pennzoil launched the Synthetic line of automotive products, ...
- What's New in Narrow We
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- August 31, 2000, ... Green Bay Packaging, Hutchison Miller, KTI, Labelmate, Litzler, MacDermid Graphic Arts, National Starch, NDC Infrared Engineering, Newfoil Machines, Nilpeter Inc., Pillar, Prime UV, and Web Techniques. ...
- What Is the Role of Additives in Water-Based Inks?
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- August 31, 2000, ... Plasticizers are used to improve the flexibility of an ink film. Many are high boiling solvent esters and, as such, remain in the ink film layer even after drying. Their concentrations have to be minimized ...
- More New Products for the Converting Industry
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- August 31, 2000, ... is reported to promote drying, good blanket and roller stability, and low misting. Inks feature subsequent processing compatibility with UV and aqueous coatings, foils, and stamping/imprinting applications. ...
- Converted Flexible Packaging: Trends to Watch
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- July 31, 2000, ... most rapid growth based on their high-barrier properties. Cellophane demand will continue to decline because of cost and performance disadvantages compared to other resins, notably PP. Paper and Foil ...
- Experts Scan the Future for Technologies with Impact
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- May 31, 2000, ... technology will likely impact the converting world, Paper, Film & Foil CONVERTER talked to our experts: contributing editors David J. Bentley Jr., William E. Hawkins, and Richard M. Podhajny; and technical ...
- Latest Gravure Technology Launches Converter into Fray
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- April 30, 2000, ... greatest technological advancement in rotogravure printing in the past 50 years." Boil-in-Bag Beginnings Kapak began converting in 1961. "My father, Harry Bell, and Benjamin Kaplan started the company," ...
- Electrically Heated Rollers Are Top Technology Choice
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- March 31, 2000, ... uniformity across the roller face within +/-1 deg C, an impressive feat, according to the judges. Designed to replace complex hot oil, water, and steam-heated rollers, the Thermalon line reportedly can ...
- Label converter controls quality from the inside out
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- August 31, 1996, ... Walle makes its own oil- and vegetable-based inks and varnishes in-house and tests them in its own in-plant labs. "We can't go to an outside supplier who makes ink for hundreds if printers that use a wide ...
- Aqueous adhesive systems: giving credit where it is due.
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- July 31, 1996, ... the adhesive provides the heat, chemical, and water resistance needed for boil-in-bag and retortable applications. It is a polyurethane dispersion cured with an isocyanate. Aqueous systems for flexible ...
- In-mold labels: film is today's hot development
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- June 30, 1996, ... led to this novel way to label and decorate containers for detergent and other cleaning and laundry products, liquid and solid foods, health and beauty aids, and miscellaneous articles such as motor oil. ...
- Coextrusion: making the equipment fit the need
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- June 30, 1996, ... flow splitters (foil spacers) that eliminate stagnation and flow bushings that reduce back pressure and die shear. Free ports on the Filmaster coextrusion dies are constructed at a flow angle that minimizes ...
- PET supplies increasing as markets expand
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- May 31, 1996, ... boil-in-bag pouches constructed from "Mylar/polyethylene" Coated with a thin layer of reflective aluminum (MET/PET), Mylar film reached outer space as the inflatable Echo I satellite. Between 1959 and ...
- Paper characteristics: starting the job right
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- April 30, 1996, ... rate of the paper is fast enough to pull the thin oils from the film before the leveling is completed, the ink film retains the patterncausing a roughness within the ink film that scatters the fight and ...
- AIMCAL Selects Seven for Annual Honors
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- March 31, 1996, ... Downes, Michigan State Univ. Peter Rigney, publisher of Paper, Film & Foil CONVERTER, served as competition moderator. The Package of the Year, Nabsico's Ritz Snack Mix stand-up pouch, was touted by ...
- Water-based adhesives meet just-in-time demands.
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- March 31, 1996, ... packaging) to medium performance (meat and cheese packaging) to high end (boil-in-bag packaging) to the many industrial and miscellaneous applications. Typical two-part, solvent-based adhesive systems ...