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Roundtable Q&A: Static Control

(Static Elimination)

August 08, 2021, ... to how fast the process can be run, how safely the line is operated and the quality of the delivered product. Static control eliminates one of the greatest barriers to achieving high quality - contamination. ...

Polysack and Flessofab Launch Novel Recyclable Packaging Available In British Market

(News | New Products)

June 14, 2021, ... properties: mechanical, optical, gas transmission (barrier) and thermal resistance, all while maintaining a particularly low film thickness of less than 25 microns. Already commercialized for dried fruits, ...

Sappi Rockwell Solutions Launches a Sustainable, Coated Lidding Film Ahead of the Proposed UK Plastic Packaging Tax

(News | New Products)

June 06, 2021, ... good oxygen and moisture vapour transmission rate barriers to increase product shelf-life. Moreover, the Starlid GPE-CL seals to all types of food packaging trays, including PP, paperboard and all PET ...

Value-Added Processes: Coating, Laminating and Metallizing

(Coating)

June 06, 2021, ... coating machinery is built for versatility for adding different polymers to the primary web as a moisture barrier, vapor barrier, or has a strengthening agent. Davis-Standard’s coating platforms are known ...

Web Considerations for Today’s Flexible Packaging

(News | New Products)

May 16, 2021, ...  Technical advancements in flexible packaging materials have enabled thinner webs to be processed with the same or greater strength and barrier properties. Physics states that the resistance of webs to ...

Mondi Packages Potatoes in Award-Winning Paper Bag with Sustainex Bio-Based Coating

(News | New Products)

May 04, 2021, ... kraft paper to ensure strength in handling while providing barrier properties to keep the produce fresh. The bag has multiple sustainability features: a corn starch-based netting for a small cut-out ...

Mondi Celebrates Eight Wins at the 2021 WorldStar Packaging Awards

(News | New Products)

January 11, 2021, ... efficient and now 100% recyclable design, it offers safer and more reliable shipping, easier handling and better economics. PerFORMing PerFORMing is a thermoformable paper-based packaging with a barrier ...

The Myriad Benefits of Metallized Packaging

(Flexpack)

December 28, 2020, ... barrier metallized polyester films. The migration trend from aluminum laminate to metallized films continues globally, following a strong trend of substituting rigid packages for flexible packaging, especially ...

TOPAS Advanced Polymers’ Cyclic Olefin Copolymer (COC) Earns Certification as Recyclable Material in Europe

(News | New Products)

November 01, 2020, ... labels for decoration and other applications such as polyolefin-based high-barrier films and recyclable pouches.”  The findings by Institut cyclos-HTP reportedly conclude that COC can be considered as ...

AIMCAL Hall of Honor Inducts First Five Members

(News | New Products)

October 19, 2020, ... NY), offers consulting and technical training in film orientation, barrier technologies, coextrusion, and extrusion and also measures polymer melt viscosity with a capillary rheometer. A leading developer ...

Major Global Automaker Launches Pilot Trial of Cortec’s Eco-Corr Film

(News | New Products)

September 23, 2020, ... VpCI® Technology and reportedly provides excellent contact, barrier, and vapor-phase corrosion protection for ferrous and non-ferrous metals. Eco-Corr Film will reportedly disintegrate within months ...

Mondi Partners With SalzburgMilch and SPAR to Reduce Plastic Waste From Food Packaging

(News | New Products)

September 20, 2020, ... SalzburgMilch Premium and the premium own-brand SPAR Natur*pur organic cheese slices. The shallow paper tray reportedly combines the recyclability of paper with the essential barrier properties of a thin ...

Exploring New Options in More Sustainable Packaging Formulations

(News | New Products)

August 30, 2020, ... Development Manager Barrier Coatings - Pulp and Paper Technologies Solenis More and more consumers, brand owners and other stakeholders are now looking beyond the traditional three-arrow triangle “seal ...

AIMCAL ACTIVITIES

(AIMCAL)

July 12, 2020, ... manufacturers present best practices and technology advances related to coating processes, oriented films, barrier, R2R vacuum processes, system developments, battery, flexible and printed electronics, ...

Plastics, Packaging and the Environment

(Flexpack)

June 29, 2020, ... can make viable candidates for compostable packaging; advanced developments in these substrates have even made barrier and metallized versions available.  These films are available in a diverse array of ...

Gutfried Organic Chicken Meat Sausage in Innovative Packaging

(News | New Products)

June 17, 2020, ... barrier fails, the packaged product would no longer be optimally protected and in the worst case could spoil early," says Carolin Grimbacher, managing partner and head of research and development at SÜDPACK. ...

Rising to the Challenge

(News | New Products)

June 14, 2020, ... It is a light-weight, full-coverage shield made from optically clear polycarbonate for maximum visibility, with a soft polyether foam forehead barrier and adjustable elastic headband. A removable protective ...

Toray Plastics (America), Inc., Launches Lumirror STM Soft-Touch Matte PET Film

(News | New Products)

May 24, 2020, ... barrier durability. The STM film is typically reverse printed with the matte side out and then laminated to a sealant web, or it is extrusion coated for the thermal lamination market. It is available in ...

How Flexo Printers Can Help Brands With Green Initiatives

(News | New Products)

May 21, 2020, ... for printing on unique substrates such as polyethylene, which is recyclable and requires less plastic to produce. Previously, polyethylene and low gauge films could be barriers to quality printing, as ...

Plastics, Packaging and the Environment

(Flexography)

April 22, 2020, ... can make viable candidates for compostable packaging; advanced developments in these substrates have even made barrier and metallized versions available.  These films are available in a diverse array of ...