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Tapes & More Tapes

(Magazine)

May 31, 2002, ... y. Recently, the company launched a number of double-sided, polyester-backed acrylic adhesive tapes, bringing the number of available PET-backed tapes to more than 15. Tesa offers a robust liner assortment  ...

Hawaii Passes Container Deposit Legislation What's Next?

(Magazine)

May 31, 2002, Of interest to converters, Hawaii has become the first US state since 1982 to pass container deposit legislation. Of interest to converters, Hawaii has become the first US state since 1982 to pass container ...

Medical Packaging and Its Special Needs

(Magazine)

May 31, 2002, ...  may contain snack foods, meat and cheese products, fresh vegetables, etc. The PE, PP, polyester, foil, paper, and other substrates used in all these packages undergo combination with typical adhesives ...

Reporter Clips

(Magazine)

May 31, 2002, ... e added value to the finished package.” Manufactured by Label Graphics, CouPak's back panel houses a hangtag constructed of a polyester substrate die-cut to form the hangtag orifice. Label Graphics repo ...

Materials

(Magazine)

May 31, 2002, ...  Eastman Chemical Co., Kingsport, TN; 413/224-0578; eastman.com EASTAR BIO Ultra copolyester biodegradable resin features a higher melt viscosity than its sister product, GP copolyester. Film made from ...

Digital Flexo Plates: From Pioneers to End-Users

(Magazine)

May 31, 2002, ... vid offers some recent examples of projects he sent through digitally. Seville produces the wrappers for baseball and football cards, which are reverse printed on polyester laminated to a metallized orie ...

P-S Labels Every Which Way

(Magazine)

April 30, 2002, ... ely 45 fpm and is designed to custom-print as little as a single label. The web-fed press handles a variety of substrates, such as p-s materials, polypropylene, or polyester, all coated and uncoated st ...

Flex-Pack Faces Up to Global Competition

(Magazine)

April 30, 2002, ... cted access, enabling purchasers to conduct subsequent queries and searches independently. PCI also produces dedicated quarterly business reports and regional supply/demand reports for the polyeste ...

Ashland Specialty Chemical Company Ups Resin Prices

(News | New Products)

April 23, 2002, The Composite Polymers Div. of Ashland Specialty Chemical Co. is increasing the price of its polyester and vinyl ester resins, low-profile additives and gel coats by 4 cents (USD) per lb, the co. reports ...

DuPont & EarthShell to Accelerate Environmentally Preferred Packages

(News | New Products)

April 11, 2002, ... s. The companies report they intend to collaborate closely to identify opportunities that combine EarthShell packaging with DuPont's Biomax® hydro/biodegradable polyester coatings/films technology. Accor ...

Annual AIMCAL: Ethics with Success

(News | New Products)

April 07, 2002, ... ecialty Films, another Bekaert co., becomes past president. Also at the meeting, converter member Bob Korowicki of Vacumet addressed a concern over what he describes as a PET dumping issue by Indian p ...

Every Trick in the Book

(Magazine)

March 31, 2002, ... , as did end-user Park Corp., which provided the graphic design. Food Category — Marketing Award Vacumet, Wayne, NJ, won the Marketing Award in the Food Category for metallized polyester (MPET) us ...

Diverse Products Meet Many High-End Needs

(Magazine)

February 28, 2002, ... m 12-375 microns from suppliers such as DuPont Teijin Films, Mitsubishi Polyester Films, and Toray Films. The three thermal evaporation vacuum metallizers operating in Martinsville use high-purity alum ...

Metallizer Makes a Winning Wager

(Unprinted Rolls)

February 28, 2002, ... me. “This is due to the differentiation in vacuum between the pumping zones. We altered their original design to put additional pumping where we thought it would benefit us. Although polyester people ar ...

Coating and Laminating Special Report

(Archive)

February 28, 2002, ...  liners: polyester polystyrene high-density polyethylene low-density polyethylene polypropylene   In addition, multilayer films based on the preceding polymers and various copolymers ar ...

Through Thick and Thin, Gauging Controls Perform for You

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February 28, 2002, Whether you're in the market for high-end thickness and gauging controls or you want a value-based system, developments have been made at both ends of Whether you're in the market for high-end thickness ...

The Future of Foil

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January 31, 2002, ... conditions. The high cost of oxide-coated film (such as oxides of aluminum and silicon on polyester film) has limited its use in the US. Outlook and Business Opportunities While Omega projects overall ...

High & Dry

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January 31, 2002, ... number of industries from its 40,000-sq-ft plant, and in one typical application, gang-slits 278 ends of polyester film simultaneously to 0.0078 in. wide and winds each end on a separate traversed spool. ...

Shaft Collar Decisions Can Be Momentous

(Magazine)

January 31, 2002, ...  or winding procedures with frequent sudden stops and starts, it is necessary to transfer braking moments of force precisely from the rotating shaft to the core or roll. A roll of polyester film, for example ...

What's New in Narrow Web

(Magazine)

November 30, 2001, ... operation with a wide variety of materials, including polyesters and vinyl. Users can switch easily from one type of media to another without having to realign or change machine setup. Gravure Press ...