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Green Converting: Landfill Diversion

(Green Converting)

August 16, 2011, ... of EcoSelect Pan Liners offers food service applications a product that provides needed grease- and oil-barrier properties with fewer chemicals. Additionally, Wausau Paper has the ability to produce products ...

UFLEX Expands in Egypt & Poland

(Coating/Laminating)

July 31, 2011, ... on packaging films to attain moisture and gas barrier properties that rival those of aluminium foils and metallized films. The levels of barrier available from ALOX-coated films are claimed far superior ...

ALOX Coater & CPP Film Line Debuting in Egypt

(Flexpack News)

July 13, 2011, ... oxide on packaging films to attain extremely high moisture and gas barrier properties that rival those of aluminium foils and metallized films. The levels of barrier available from ALOX-coated films are ...

One Sweet Delivery Option

(Flexpack)

June 15, 2011, ... and acts as much as a cushion as a temperature control. The finished film uses metallizing technology to provide a thin, reflective barrier that refracts heat or cold back into the package. One truckload ...

AIMCAL Awards: Canisters Blow Away Competition

(Metallizing)

March 31, 2011, ... and communicate the smooth chocolatey nature of the rich éclair brownie product. Uflex provides the substrate, rotogravure printing, plasma metallization (for improved barrier properties), laminating, ...

DuPont Packaging & Industrial Polymers Announces Price Increase

(Flexpack News)

March 22, 2011, DuPont Packaging & Industrial Polymers announced an Americas region price increase of $0.10/lb ($0.22/kg) on all grades of DuPont Elvax, Elvaloy AC WILMINGTON, DE | DuPont Packaging & Industrial Polymers ...

AIMCAL Awards: Canisters Blow Away Competition

(Coating/Laminating)

March 17, 2011, ... nature of the interior rich éclair brownie product. Uflex provides the substrate, rotogravure printing, plasma metallization (for improved barrier properties), laminating, and slitting. A die-punched ...

Surface Treating: Promoting Adhesion

(Surface Prep)

February 28, 2011, ... barrier discharge (DBD). A DBD is a non-thermal radio frequency (RF) fourth-state-of-matter plasma with a gas discharge maintained between electrodes separated by at least one dielectric barrier. Atmospheric ...

Market Update: Coating & Laminating Special Report: Still Growing

(Flexpack)

January 31, 2011, In the world of packaging, vacuum-coated products offer converters and brand owners three key properties: barrier, aesthetics, and sustainability. Barrier In the world of packaging, vacuum-coated products ...

Laminating Adhesive Suited for Many Uses

(Adhesives)

January 31, 2011, ... in excess of 1,000 fpm. Designed for confectionery, energy bars, ice cream, and other snack food applications, adhesive is said to adhere well to many substrates, including barrier films and surface-treated ...

DuPont Packaging & Industrial Polymers Increases Price in Europe for Ethylene Copolymer

(Flexpack News)

December 28, 2010, ... It's best known ethylene copolymer products include DuPont Surlyn resins for packaging and industrial applications, Bynel coextrudable adhesives, Selar PA amorphous polyamide barrier resins, Nucrel acid ...

Compostable & Quiet

(Flexpack)

November 30, 2010, ... to Bill Reilly, Genpak development manager, “The film performs well technically and has excellent moisture, gas, and light barrier properties that enhance shelf life and protect the product.” Visit www.innoviafilms.com. ...

ISO Poly Adds W&H Film Line

(Flexpack)

November 30, 2010, ... of the installation of a seven-layer barrier, five-layer barrier, and another three-layer coex line — all from W&H. Jon McClure, president of ISO Poly Films, says, “With Sigma Plastics Group support, ...

Materials Substrates: Building Blocks

(Flexpack)

November 30, 2010, ... | www.enhanceyourbrand.com Circle 317 or visit www.freeproductinfo.net/pff Overture One is called the first transparent, non-aluminum foil, barrier film line for stick pack and flow wrapped applications. ...

Coating Aids Shelf Life

(Coatings)

October 31, 2010, R-2462 water-based coating allows converters to achieve oxygen barrier properties on films and papers that extend the shelf life of products. When applied R-2462 water-based coating allows converters to ...

Response to PET Shortage

(Yo's Yarns)

September 12, 2010, ... are some alternatives, says Toray Plastics (America). The company says its Torayfan PC3 metallized OPP delivers barrier durability suitable for metallized PET and foil applications. Says Franco Chicarella, ...

BOPET Capacity To Double

(Flexpack)

August 31, 2010, ... in Altamira in state of Tamaulipas. The company started operations in March 2009. A new state-of-the-art 8.7-m-wide Dornier BOPET film line and a plasma-enhanced, high-barrier vacuum metallizer will ...

Flex Americas To Double BOPET Production

(Flexpack)

August 15, 2010, ... another 8.7-m-wide Dornier BOPET line along with a plasma-enhanced high-barrier vacuum metallizer, another US $50 million will be invested to turn out 36,000 MT (80 million lb). With the new line in Mexico, ...

Appleton Papers Sells Performance Packaging Division

(Trends/Management)

August 03, 2010, ... The company designs and produces a complete line of mono, co-extrusion and up to nine-layer barrier films. Appleton Performance Packaging’s operations consist of three strategically placed manufacturing ...

You Get what You Pay For, or Caveat Emptor.

(Tom’s Poly Ploys)

July 15, 2010, ...  Quality comes in two flavors: Quality of Design and Quality of Manufacturing. End users of barrier films for example expect to receive the product that was designed and made to exacting specifications, ...