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Technical Considerations to Ensure Optimal UV LED Curing

(UV)

November 2, 2025, ... the polymerization process where photoinitiators cross-link acrylate monomers and oligomers in UV curable adhesives, coatings and inks. UV curing difficult colors or high deposit inks at a higher speed ...

The Role of Dual-Cure Inks in the Transition to UV LED

(News | New Products)

September 28, 2025, ... the ink to initiate polymerization from the point where it contacts the substrate, transforming the liquid ink into a solid film within milliseconds. This results in high resistance films with improved ...

How Vacuum Web Coating Ensures Precision, Quality Coatings

(Coating/Laminating)

August 27, 2025, ... in numerous industries. For barrier film for packaging, the vacuum coating creates a moisture and oxygen barriers on polymer films, ensuring product longevity. Flexible electronics and displays are enabled ...

Surface Treatment for the Extrusion Market

(Surface Prep)

August 24, 2025, ... to be modified, and it needs to be done immediately after the cooling phase of the melt before the polymer is completely post-crystallized. By applying the Corona charge at this point to the top layer ...

Clarity and Vision in Flexibles

(Coating/Laminating)

August 9, 2025, ... to mono-materials for reasons of efficiency, recyclability, sustainability and the environment is not insignificant and requires partnering up and often of experimentation. Advancement in polymer science ...

Sun Chemical to Showcase Latest Innovations at European Coatings Show 2025

(News | New Products)

February 24, 2025, ... Germany, Sun Chemical will launch two new effect pigments alongside its full range of high performing color stylings and showcase new innovative polymers, resins and packaging film treatments for the coatings ...

Mis-Steps to Avoid When Performing a Dyne Test

(Surface Prep)

February 2, 2025, ... a quick, inexpensive way to determine the wettability of polymers, foils, coated paper, composites and other materials. Developed in the early 1960s, it has been widely employed ever since the original ...

Applying Barriers to Flexible

(Bag Pouch)

January 29, 2025, ... polymers that in certain circumstances is being considered as being an alternative to non-degradable materials. PLA is derived from renewable sources and can be enzymatically broken down, which makes for ...

Toray Creates Stretchable Film with High Dielectric Constant and Resilience

(News | New Products)

December 10, 2024, ... sensors that can measure on 3D curved surfaces and accommodate large deformations. Toray will keep leveraging its core technologies of synthetic organic and polymer chemistry, biotechnology, and nanotechnology ...

Minimizing Waste in Extrusion Coating

(Coating/Laminating)

December 8, 2024, ... seamlessly integrating extrusion and lamination to produce high-performance composite materials. This technique involves applying a molten polymer onto a continuously moving substrate. Products of extrusion ...

Charter Next Generation Showcases Advanced Materials at Pack Expo 2024, Driving Sustainability and Operational Excellence

(News | New Products)

October 29, 2024, ... Biomaterial Another standout feature at Pack Expo will be CNG’s integration of  technology, which transforms seaweed into a biodegradable and compostable polymer. This innovative approach leverages seaweed’s ...

Mondi and traceless Develop Ground-breaking Coating Solution

(Sustainability Forum)

June 20, 2024, ... solutions, and traceless’ expertise for material solutions based on natural polymers. The coating granulates are produced in traceless' pilot plant and are applied to Mondi's kraft paper in Mondi's R&D centre ...

Demand Increasing for PCR Plastics: How Recycled PE supports Sustainable Packaging Solutions

(Flexpack)

June 13, 2024, ... converters and purchasers should ask potential rPE suppliers about the source of the recycled material, what types of foreign materials could be present, such as labels or other polymers and the processes ...

Obtaining Barriers When Coating and Printing Flexible Materials

(Bag Pouch)

June 9, 2024, ... easier to decide upon. Film manufacturers and formulators produce modified structures from polymers such as polyethylene, polyester and poly-propylene. Polyethylene for example, when modified and in ...

A New Era in Sustainable Packaging

(News | New Products)

March 26, 2024, ... wrap packaging material is usually made from polymer plastic film. When heated, it shrinks tightly over the item it is covering. Shrink wrap and shrink film are very versatile materials and can be used ...

Addressing Bio-film/Compostables and Plastic Film Processing Challenges

(Bag Pouch)

March 17, 2024, ... Coatings can be synthetic or bio based. Biopolymers can be obtained directly from natural substances that include polysaccharides and proteins or by the polymerisation of monomers derived from a biomass. ...

IPCO Double Belt Presses and Precision Scattering Systems highlighted at JEC

(News | New Products)

January 31, 2024, ... 1600 sq.m. Productivity Center near Stuttgart, Germany. The modular design of ThermoPress systems enables multiple stages of production – including polymerization, curing and cooling – to be incorporated ...

Materials Lead The Way

(Web Handling)

November 26, 2023, ... polymer resins are transformed into fine microfibers and converted into a nonwoven web in one step via a conventional Meltblown system or their proprietary and patented Spun-blown® system technology. Combinations ...

Tosaf Fusion Expansion Course with Customized Solutions for Compounding, Packaging Industry

(News | New Products)

July 17, 2023, ... both masterbatches and grafted polymers. Due to steadily increasing demand, Tosaf Fusion is currently relocating its production to a larger facility in Israel's Alon Tavor industrial area. As a specialist ...

Coating Futures in Medical and Wound Management

(Coating/Laminating)

March 19, 2023, ...  Coating requirements can be demanding; advances both in equipment, adhesives and support technology have bought us transparent dressings, film dressings consisting of a polymer membrane of varying thicknesses ...