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Polinas Adds Nuroll

Published: August 01, 2011
MANISA, TURKEY | Film manufacturer Polinas has acquired 100% of the shares of Nuroll, a manufacturer of BOPET located in Pignataro Maggiore, Italy. The

Web Lines: Wrinkling of Foils

Published: August 01, 2011

In our everyday lives, our main experience with foil likely comes from wrapping a potato in kitchen-grade aluminum foil. Wrinkling thin aluminum foil

Overlaminating Films Resist Heat

Published: August 01, 2011
XL-1600 and XL-1601 high-temperature, clear overlaminating films reportedly offer high heat resistance, dimensional stability, and excellent resistance

Flexographic Printing: A Push for Growth

Published: August 01, 2011
Myron Geiser, general manager of Capri Packaging, modestly suggests that everyone's got presses and laminators. So, we've got a new W&H pressanybody can

Get Stainless Look in Film

Published: August 01, 2011
Company now offers cross-hatch and Tru-Stainless patterns for what is said to be a rich, stainless steel look in a film. Patterns are available with any

FlexSol Packaging Grows with W&H Blown Film Line

Published: July 29, 2011
The Nashville, TN, facility of FlexSol Packaging, a wholly-owned div. of Lyndhurst, NJ-based Sigma Plastics Group, will accommodate growth with the installation of a high-output, five-layer VAREX line from Windmoeller & Hoelscher Corp

Report Examines Development of China's Paper Industries

Published: July 27, 2011
Asia Pulp & Paper (APP), among the leading manufacturers of paper in China, has invested in new technology as China's government forces inefficient, high-polluting paper mills to close

Awash in Chocolate

Published: July 14, 2011
The Wonka Wondrously Whirled Waterfall Bar, converted by Printpack, Atlanta, GA, is printed in nine colors with cold seal on 48-ga PET and laminated in-line to holographic film. It uses lavenders and purples with gold accents to create a store shelf standout

ALOX Coater & CPP Film Line Debuting in Egypt

Published: July 14, 2011
FLEX Group, and India-based manfuacturer of flexible packaging materials, will commision an aluminum oxide coater, dubbed ALOX, on Oct. 6, 2011

Blown Stretch Film Line To Boost Growth for Sigma

Published: July 11, 2011
Sigma Stretch Film has purchased a three-layer Davis-Standard blown film line for its Shelbyville, KY, facility to support business growth. Planned for a mid-2011 installation

Update on World BOPET Market Trends

Published: July 08, 2011
PCI Films Consulting, a leading specialist in oriented plastic film market intelligence, publishes its "World BOPET Film Market Trends Statistical Update 2011"

R&D Center Adds Coating Line

Published: July 01, 2011
PAWCATUCK, CT | Davis-Standard has installed a seven-layer cast coextrusion film and sheet pilot line at the Pasadena, TX, Research and Technical Center

New BOPP Plant Starts Up in Egypt

Published: July 01, 2011
NOIDA, INDIA | The UFLEX Group has commissioned its new greenfield BOPP film plant in Egypt, about 40 km from Cairo. The 8.7-m-wide, 500-mpm coextruded

Film Barrier Aids Shelf Life

Published: July 01, 2011
NanoShield high-barrier technology can be applied to PET, OPP, BON, and PLA films used for food packaging to resist moisture and oxygen from penetrating

Exopack Recapitalizes Transactions

Published: June 21, 2011
With the guidance and advice as co-manager and co-documentation agent of Mesirow Financial, Exopack Holding Corp., an affiliate of Sun Capital Partners, is recapitalizing its transactions

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