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Tape Converter Stands Up to Goliath with New Press

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March 30, 2000, ... product is polyester identification marking tape, may be small, but it's wiry. But then so are its customers. Filmex Corp., Warren, RI, is a family-owned converter with just ten employees that produces ...

System Keeps Static Buildup Problems Under Control

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February 29, 2000, ... casting liner, and release liner products. The facility runs a wide variety of substrates, including biaxially oriented polypropylene, polyethylene, polyester, polyvinyl chloride, polystyrene, and poly-coated ...

FPA Winners Prove Again How to Do More with Less

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February 29, 2000, The Flexible Packaging Association (FPA), Washington, DC, presented its 1999 Top Packaging Awards to seven companies for flexible packages that broke The Flexible Packaging Association (FPA), Washington, ...

Converter Plays Key Role in Mercosur Trading Group

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February 29, 2000, ... quality control department. Representative packaging material structures presently produced at ISMA include BOPP (biaxially oriented polypropylene)/PE (pasta); BOPP/BOPP (cookies); PET (polyester)/polyvinylidene ...

Specialty Products Are Custom Made in the U.K.

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January 31, 2000, ... and is attached to a thermal oxidizer made by Thermax. As a contract converter, Draper reports Ferrisgate works with a variety of films, papers, and even fabrics. "We can run materials from thin polyester ...

High-Barrier Packaging: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

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January 31, 2000, ... polyester commonly are utilized for the base substrate in high-barrier packaging films. "Those three film bases are used to build multilayer structures, and then there are various processes and techniques ...

Vision-Based System Wins the Battle Against Defects

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December 31, 1999, ... has been in business for 25 years. It runs polypropylene, polyethylene, and polyester substrates on six- and eight-color presses. A complete prepress department handles inception, design, process color ...

Oxide-coated films are still finding their market niche

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November 30, 1996, ... barrier films, one would think that applications could be found almost anywhere in the supermarket. But in a course given this past October during International Polyester Week '96 (IPW '96) by the Packaging ...

Need and innovation are driving digital printing.

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November 30, 1996, ... color page printers, recently introduced the Impressa, a digital label and decal press. The unit is engineered to put a variety of full- and spot-color output on paper, polyester, and vinyl substrates ...

NOVA and Union Carbide to build ethylene plant

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October 31, 1996, ... facility will add an estimated 20,000 tons/yr of Melinex polyester film and should be completed by the end of 1997. David MacLeod, Melinex European managing director, says, "This major new investment ...

Popcorn packaging leads converter down new paths.

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October 31, 1996, ... experience, explains VP and general manager Eric Jackson. The Phoenix product is a printed, laminated sandwich of susceptor film between two paper layers. Himac supplies the metallized polyester susceptor ...

Partnering launches future growth in laminations

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August 31, 1996, ... usually incorporate a range of thicknesses and materials but generally include and start at .5- through 2-mil polyester/.35- through 2-mil aluminum foil. A five-roll transfer system accomplishes metering ...

Taking the measure of surface treatment is a learning process

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August 31, 1996, ... water-based ink systems normally require a substrate surface tension of 42 to 45 dynes/cm in order to provide acceptable adhesion and wetout. Therefore, all plastic films, including nylon and polyester, ...

Gauging system lights the way

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August 31, 1996, ... process of the lamp begins with two thermoplastics polyester film substrates. One is supplied with an indium tin oxide (ITO) coating already applied by the film vendor; the other is metallized by a sputtering ...

Aqueous adhesive systems: giving credit where it is due.

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July 31, 1996, ... mainly in snack food packaging or similar applications. The introduction of two-component PU systems and the isocyanate cured polyester materials allowed extension to more demanding boil-in-bag and condiment ...

Modified Atmosphere Packaging shows potential for growth

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June 30, 1996, ... from four basic polymers, namely polyvinyl chloride, polyester, polypropylene, and polyethylene. There are three main types of retail MP formats: * the semi-rigid tray, mainly used for packaging meats; ...

Coextrusion: making the equipment fit the need

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June 30, 1996, ... polymers, such as nylon, HDPE, LLDPE, ethylene vinyl alcohol (EVOH), polypropylene (PP), and PETG (a form of polyester), that require minimal residence time. The die also protects sensitive polymers with ...

PET supplies increasing as markets expand

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May 31, 1996, ...  Because of the widespread interest in polyesters, The Packaging Group is sponsoring "International Polyester Week" Oct. 7-10, 1996, and will discuss all the polyesters in a variety of tutorials and seminars. ...

MSC Specialty Films reaches success down to the core

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May 31, 1996, ... includes metallizing, coating, and laminating, as well as slitting and finishing processes. The company runs polyester, polypropylene, polyimide, and metal foils for window films as well as for industrial ...

Advances in prepress are making heads spin.

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May 31, 1996, ... and registration marks for most four-up presses. Resolutions include 1270, 2540, and 3175 dpi. The Maverick can run paper or polyester and can be fitted with either a Bacher or Stoesser punch. The Proof ...