Film Manufacturing

How Do You Measure Ink Film Thickness? Count the Ways

(Magazine)

January 31, 2002, ... of ink. Lithography is estimated to deposit an ink film of approximately 1-2 microns, whereas flexography's deposit is estimated at 2-3 microns. Rotogravure can have a wide range from 1-20 microns, depending ...

NEX Films to Be Available via Internet Ordering

(News | New Products)

January 29, 2002, New England Extrusion (NEX) will soon accept blown film online orders, reports the film manufacturer. Upgrades to the Nex Web site, which will enable users to order materials over the Internet, currently ...

Avery Dennison Launches Engineered Films Web Site

(News | New Products)

January 29, 2002, The Engineered Films Division of Avery Dennison has launched a web site dedicated to servicing new and current customers and to providing valuable product, market, and personnel information. CONCORD, OH, ...

Dealing with Ink Adhesion on High-Slip Films

(Magazine)

December 31, 2001, One of the most common problems with printing high-slip films is poor ink adhesion. Such films have low surface energies, and the levels of slip additives One of the most common problems with printing ...

Will We Soon be Eating the Film Along with the Food?

(Magazine)

November 30, 2001, The May issue of TECHNOLOGY REVIEW had a brief article with the heading Edible Wraps. It described a new edible film made at the Agricultural Research The May issue of TECHNOLOGY REVIEW had a brief article ...

Bekaert Buys MSC Specialty Films and ISF

(Magazine)

September 30, 2001, KORTRIJK, BELGIUM The Bekaert Group has acquired the Specialty Films business of Material Sciences Corp. (MSC) for USD $122 million. The acquisition includes KORTRIJK, BELGIUM The Bekaert Group has acquired ...

Slitting Adhesive-Coated, Low-Strength Films

(Magazine)

September 30, 2001, Low-strength films, such PE or cast PP, sometimes are coated with an adhesive and slit into customer-sized rolls. Low-strength films do not have sharply Low-strength films, such PE or cast PP, sometimes ...

UCB Films Invests in Valmet Atlas Slitter and Millions for Belgium BOPP Plant

(News | New Products)

August 28, 2001, UCB films is taking slitting to another level with its new state-of-the-art slitting facility and a Valmet slitter, says the companyl; it's invested €2.6 million ($2.37 million US) into its BOPP production ...

SUBSTRATES REPORT: From Resins to Finished Product - Oil, Gas, Resin, Film

(Magazine)

June 30, 2001, The recent round of price hikes in energy coupled with a weak US economy has many people in the film and packaging industry scratching their heads looking The recent round of price hikes in energy coupled ...

How One Converter Mastered Sheet-Fed Films

(Magazine)

March 31, 2001, ... is still making history. Four years ago, the Rochester, NY-based company saw the opportunity to form a strategic alliance with The Films Business of ExxonMobil Chemical Co. to help create and convert ...

Cast Film Dies and Auxiliary Equipment

(Magazine)

February 28, 2001, Application: Quality of an extrudate in a cast film system depends on the entire die system because of the synergistic effect of the components. Email the author at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. More information about ...

The Effects o Comonomer Type on the Blown Film Performance of LLDPE Resins Made Using a Metallocene Single-Site Catalyst

(Magazine)

January 31, 2001, Application: Using 1-butene, 1-hexene, and 1-octene as a comonomer gives blown film performance that increases with increasing length of the a-olefin used. by Ashish M. Sukhadia, M. Bruce Welch, & Rajendra ...

Atmospheric Plasma: The New Functional Treatment for Films

(Magazine)

January 31, 2001, Application: Specialty films that require stringent surface morphology specifications, specific surface modification, precise surface coating, or tightly controlled electrical characteristics will benefit ...

Film Extrusion Committee News

(Magazine)

November 30, 2000, Audrey Myers of Black Clawson Converting Machinery, vice chairperson of the Film Extrusion Committee, reports that "the group is busy with four goals. We are working on the technical program for the next ...

Polyester Film Sourcing: Tips to Improve the Bottom Line

(Magazine)

November 30, 2000, Sourcing polyester film for the specific combination of properties you need in the finished product can put your mind at ease and raise profitability. Sourcing polyester film should not be an exercise ...

Polyester Film Supplier Helps Converter Grow

(Magazine)

September 30, 2000, Needing better service and more attention from its polyester supplier (along with good quality, of course), Custom Tapes turned to Filmquest and found its wish list fulfilled. Size does matter. At least ...

Bringing Together the Many Benefits of Film and Paper

(Magazine)

September 30, 2000, Harrier Packaging is targeting the food industry as it converts PaperFeel, a coex PE film that reportedly combines the best of paper and film. Flour and sugar, conventionally packed in block-bottom paper ...

Press Adds Flexibility of Film to Paper Operation

(Magazine)

June 30, 2000, ... central impression, flexographic press marks its first foray into converting film, and it offers the Saugerties, NY-based company its greatest potential for growth since it was founded in 1979 as a converter ...

It's Definitely a Bull Market for High-Performance Film

(Magazine)

May 31, 2000, ... can't go in the oven?" Well today, although you still can't put that plate in the oven, there are high-performance plastic films that can not only survive in the oven but also go straight from your freezer ...

Decorative Films Served by Multilayer Structure

(Magazine)

May 31, 2000, ... sq ft, is the growing popularity of Allied's proprietary ALUphane decorative film. The five-layer film, which Allied says has the same affinity for crinkle and deadfold as colored cellophane produced ...

Oxide-coated films are still finding their market niche

(Magazine)

November 30, 1996, With all the hype in recent years about transparent barrier films, one would think that applications could be found almost anywhere in the supermarket. With all the hype in recent years about transparent ...

In-mold labels: film is today's hot development

(Magazine)

June 30, 1996, ... protection. Today, such paper labels comprise approximately half the in-mold label market. Labels made with a plastic film form the other portion of the market. In-mold labels made from film offer better ...

MSC Specialty Films reaches success down to the core

(Magazine)

May 31, 1996, In order to provide customers with just what its name promises, MSC Specialty Films needed the right core supplier. Star Paper Tube's new StarTech Div. In order to provide customers with just what its name ...

Consider film cores when analyzing costs.

(Magazine)

July 31, 1995, Film cores are rarely considered key components in a total system cost analysis, but using the wrong ones may cost you more than you realize.As film markets Film cores are rarely considered key components ...

Gains in productivity call for look at manufacturing process.

(Magazine)

June 30, 1995, How should a manager proceed to improve productivity in his plant?How does one recognize whether productivity is at, above or below par? And after one How should a manager proceed to improve productivity ...

Film offers food packagers green marketing opportunity

(Magazine)

April 30, 1995, When ICI Films decided to develop the first polyester foodpackaging film using post-consumer recycled (PCR) content nearly a year ago, we did so believing When ICI Films decided to develop the first polyester ...

Vinyl film eliminates layer of polyethylene

(Magazine)

February 28, 1995, An Aclar-laminated rigid-vinyl film eliminating the middle layer of polyethylene is available for high-barrier pharmaceutical applications from Klockner An Aclar-laminated rigid-vinyl film eliminating ...

Packaging films edible, water soluble

(Magazine)

February 28, 1995, Completely edible water-soluble packaging films are available from Chris Craft Industrial Products, South Holland, IL.The Monosol LXP-1832 films are cold-water Completely edible water-soluble packaging ...

Films utilize capacity of cast polyethylene

(Magazine)

February 28, 1995, Laminated films designed for packaging of toner cartridges have been introduced by Web Technologies, Oakville, CT.Copy-Pat films are a custom-engineered Laminated films designed for packaging of toner ...

Metallizer, orienter to increase films capacity

(Magazine)

February 28, 1995, New equipment installations will boost the worldwide capacity of the Films Division of Mobil Chemical Co., Pittsford, NY, during 1995.The addition of New equipment installations will boost the worldwide ...