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(Magazine)

December 30, 2003, ... a North America is a thin polyester film double coated with a permanent acrylic adhesive on one side and a removable acrylic adhesive on the other, reportedly making it ideal for the construction of medic ...

Products and Materials

(Magazine)

December 30, 2003, ... stic copolyester extruded film for wound dressing and surgical drape and gown fabrication. Said to provide good barrier properties and can be laminated to a variety of substrates. Product, which is avai ...

What's New in Narrow Web

(Tapes)

November 30, 2003, ... and silver-based polyester plates, as well as letterpress. Available in 1.5- and 7-lb cans, inks are laser-safe to 400 deg F and may be used with all popular fountain solutions, co. adds. PFFC-ASAP 321 ...

Totally Rockin' Metal

(Magazine)

November 30, 2003, ... oride. Metallized Product of the Year Metallized Product of the Year is awarded to Lever Pond's OMO Progress carton. The carton's outer polyester (PET) film was seven-color reverse-printed on the in ...

Materials

(Materials)

November 29, 2003, ... polyester film for use with silicone p-s adhesives. Typical applications include high-temperature or medical tapes and other specialty tapes and labels. Add Value to Laminated Products Transilwrap ...

Alcoa Sells South American PET Biz

(News | New Products)

October 07, 2003, Late last week, Alcoa reported it had completed the sale of its polyethylene terephthalate (PET)—better known as polyester—packaging business in South America to Amcor PET Packaging for $75 million (USD) ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

September 30, 2003, ... n coated to polyester and sealed to uncoated Tyvek. The pouch is said to provide a particulate- and fiber-free peel. According to Rexam, the contamination may exist from particulates generated by a coatin ...

Coating Success

(Unprinted Rolls)

September 30, 2003, ... n films, coating process development and scale-up, polyester base development, film defect mechanisms, and defect characterization techniques. He has more than 40 years of experience in coating resear ...

BOPP Film: How Real Is the China Threat?

(Flexpack)

September 30, 2003, ... 3.” PCI also produces dedicated Quarterly Business Reports and Regional Supply/Demand Reports for the polyester and polypropylene film and flexible packaging markets. For more information contact info@pcifilms. ...

Foil Converter Changes Course

(Magazine)

September 30, 2003, ... ne of “Esterpeel” heat sealable lidding films. This was a construction based either on a heat seal or specialty lamination on polyester (PET) film. This soon led the firm into the emerging area of high-tempe ...

Spotlight on the North American Market

(Disposables)

September 30, 2003, ... . Across all applications, polyethylene accounts for the largest usage at 53%, followed by polyester — for critical applications — at 30%, and polypropylene at 15%. However, today it is film liners th ...

Adhesion of Coatings to Aluminum Foil

(The Place)

August 31, 2003, ... hydrogen bonds. The true reason in this case is unknown. Stand-up pouches usually use a two-component polyester-polyurethane laminating adhesive. During retorting of filled pouches, water vapor can ...

The Long & the Short of Web Bending

(Magazine)

August 31, 2003, ... nd on the beam dimensions (thickness, width, and length) and the modulus of elasticity. The deflection for a given load will be directly proportional to modulus. The modulus of aluminum is 20x higher than pol ...

Europe: Label's Leader

(Tapes)

August 31, 2003, ... he decoration of medium to large polyester (PET) bottles. Shrink-sleeve labels continue to enjoy annualized growth rates in excess of 15%, but materials are changing from the hitherto dominant polyvi ...

Materials

(Materials)

August 31, 2003, ... torayfilms.com UV-blocking polyester Lumirror films are said to provide advanced protection against light, rain, ozone, and pollution in many applications. U6V and U6V1 films are color-neutral, don't degrad ...

TLMI Membership List

(Magazine)

August 28, 2003, ...  Label Technology Inc. The Kennedy Group Inc. Label Div. Advanced Web Technologies Inc. Matthias Paper Corp. 1993 Air Products Polymers LP Label Art, California Mitsubishi Polyester Film LLC  ...

Let's Talk Trends

(Tapes)

August 28, 2003, ... ion projected to continue to lose market share as environmental issues limit material usability. Others, including polyethylene (PE) (9%-10%), polypropylene (PP)(7%-8%), polyester (5%-6%), and polyolefin (5%- ...

Permanent & Removable Pressure-Sensitive Adhesives

(Magazine)

July 31, 2003, ... polyester film and made into labels. After application of these labels onto something, a person probably could remove them because of the high internal strength of the polyester film. The so-called permanent ...

Products

(Magazine)

July 31, 2003, ... to the printing plate in letterpress printing. Plates are equipped with a black mask layer into which the information is transferred by means of a laser beam. Plates are available on a polyester or st ...

Green Stands for Go

(Flexpack)

July 31, 2003, ... ed to compostable starch/copolyester bags (Novamount) in 1990 and, at the same time, introduced window bread bags using microperforated oriented polypropylene (OPP) as the transparent window. (Coated celloph ...