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- The Back Page: Taking it back 54 years
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- April 23, 2020, ... FOR PP FILMS Slip problems are common ills in many flexible packaging applications. Most uncoated oriented polypropylene film applications – especially the PP / K cello combinations that are now gaining ...
- European Recycling Markets Reel From Coronavirus
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- March 22, 2020, ... over plastic. A similar trend of reduced collection rates is expected in other key recycled polymer sectors such as recycled polyethylene (R-PE) and recycled polypropylene (R-PP). “We plan that we ...
- Toray Plastics (America), Inc., Opens New PEF Division Innovation Center
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- March 16, 2020, ... advanced, precision-engineered, irradiation-crosslinked, polypropylene and polyethylene foam for automotive, flooring, and industrial applications, including gasket, tape, and composites. Toray’s foams ...
- Is it the End for Non-Recyclable Plastic Packaging?
- (Flexpack)
- March 02, 2020, ... on show – machine direction-oriented (MDO) polyethylene, biaxially oriented polyethylene (BOPE), biaxially oriented polypropylene (BOPP) and cast polypropylene (CPP) – were the outcome of considerable ...
- Primera Announces LX610 Color Label Printer with Built-In Digital Die Cutting™
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- February 04, 2020, ... polyester and polypropylene. Included Software An innovative printer like LX610 is only as good as its software. That is why with every printer purchased a copy of PTCreate™ Standard is available for ...
- Hey Buddy Can You Spare a Dyne?
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- January 19, 2020, ... recognized as an industry standard. It is highly recommended that you invest in the test document ASTM D2578 – 17, Standard Test Method for Wetting Tension of Polyethylene and Polypropylene Films to properly ...
- Flexible Packaging, a Converting Dynamo
- (Converting Perspectives)
- December 01, 2019, ... versus some other choices. Polypropylene packaging includes bulk containment and other industrial bags, cling film, grocery bags and sandwich bags, among the uses. It’s strong, flexible and temperature ...
- Are We on the Road to Achieving Truly Sustainable Packaging?
- (Flexpack)
- November 11, 2019, ... polypropylene, polyethylene). Multi polymer materials used in flexible packaging are sophisticated formulas, adept at protecting food (for example) from oxygen, water and so on. But mixing polymers makes ...
- Substrates Create Challenges & Opportunities
- (Converting Perspectives)
- November 05, 2019, ... melting point, and supplied in light to heavyweights. PE offers converters strength, stretch, high abrasion resistance, moisture vapor barrier and more. PE has a lower melting point compared to polypropylene ...
- Innovia and Wildcorn Develop a Fully Recyclable and Sustainable Pack
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- October 21, 2019, ... to be ‘recycle ready’, or recyclable in countries which have the infrastructure to recycle polypropylene.” “Our products are wholesome natural organic snacks, providing a heathier alternative to consumers,” ...
- Combining Exceed XP and ExxonMobil PP Delivers Polyolefin Films with Extreme Performance and High Temperature Resistance
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- October 16, 2019, ... converters are averse to blending polypropylene and polyethylene for a number of reasons,” said David Hergenrether, ExxonMobil vice president, polyethylene. “Our technology innovations have proven that ...
- Toray Plastics (America), Inc. Launches a New Website
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- September 11, 2019, ... Toray’s comprehensive, positive role in the manufacture of sustainable, technologically advanced polyester and polypropylene films and electron-beam crosslinked foams, and it underscores the company’s ...
- Innovia’s Strata Film Awarded “Made for Recycling” Quality Seal
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- August 05, 2019, Innovia Films has worked with Interseroh to have its newly launched high barrier BOPP Propafilm™ Strata SL film evaluated. Innovia Films has worked with Interseroh, an Independent German recycling ...
- FPA Announces Speaker Lineup for Upcoming Fall Executive Conference
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- July 23, 2019, ... Thursday, October 10, at the InterContinental Chicago. This one-day conference will focus on industry-specific topics including an update on state government affairs; an update on the polypropylene market; ...
- Mike Brandmeier, President and CEO of Toray Plastics (America), Inc., Receives Strategic Leadership Award
- (Flexpack)
- April 03, 2019, ... the sixth annual Manufacturing Awards dinner in Providence, R.I. Brandmeier joined Toray in 1995 as the director of sales for the Torayfan® Polypropylene Division. He was named president in June 2014. ...
- Toray Plastics (America) Announces Plans to Expand OPP Film Manufacturing
- (Flexpack)
- February 10, 2019, Toray Plastics (America), Inc. recently announced that it is investing in a new, state-of-the-art 8.7 meter polypropylene film line. Toray Plastics (America), located in North Kingstown, R.I., is ...
- Growth Opportunities in the Global BOPP Films Market
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- February 04, 2019, ... Polypropylene Films 2018 to 2022 study includes additional market insights and lists OPP film producers by region and their overall capacity changes from 2010 through 2017. The study provides further ...
- MAXSON Offers a Sheeter for Magnetized Laminates
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- December 11, 2018, Specialty converters of magnetized polypropylene or PVC laminates can accurately sheet to finished sizes with the new MAXSON SDFK Sheeter. WESTERLY, RI | Specialty converters of magnetized polypropylene ...
- Will it Process?
- (Extrusion Coating)
- December 11, 2018, ... polyester and polypropylene. It is the method of manufacture or conversion of these polymers that enables a substrate to meet many aesthetic or functional requirements. Polyethylene for example: when modified ...
- Static Beat | Static Control for Nip Rollers
- (Static-Beat)
- December 03, 2018, ... (1), kWEB is the dielectric constant of the web material; polypropylene. I find that value to be 2.2 when I search “polypropylene dielectric constant.” And, dWEB is the web thickness in microns. For example, ...