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AIMCAL Awards: Canisters Blow Away Competition

(Coating/Laminating)

March 17, 2011, ... maintains an oxygen transmission rate (OTR) of 4.0 cm3/100 in.2/day and a water vapor transmission rate (WVTR) of 0.08 g/100 in.2/day. The O2 Barrier sealant replaces metallized PET to convert a three-ply ...

Surface Treating: Promoting Adhesion

(Surface Prep)

February 28, 2011, ...  With polymer-based packaging substrates, corona treatment excels at activating these surfaces by disassociating the oxygen molecules within the air ionizing discharge to free atomic oxygen (O) to bond ...

Mocon Installs Permeation Units at High-Altitude Tibetan Lab

(Controls News)

January 10, 2011, Mocon, Inc. recently installed oxygen and water vapor permeation units in a Lhasa, Tibet, pharmaceutical testing laboratory. Located at 11,450 ft, the 2-mile+, above sea-level location, represents Mocon’s ...

Materials Substrates: Building Blocks

(Flexpack)

November 30, 2010, ... Based on Clearfoil barrier-coated PET, plus an aggressive sealant, structure enables high-speed sealing. Oxygen barriers available to 0.0008 cc/100 in.2/24 hr, and moisture barrier properties to 0.0008 ...

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, ... product manager, Torayfan Div., ““CPGs and converters are discovering that PC3 film is fit for use in metallized PET and foil applications owing to its superior moisture barrier and improved oxygen barrier, ...

You Get what You Pay For, or Caveat Emptor.

(Tom’s Poly Ploys)

July 15, 2010, ... that happen when the EVOH layer is reduced by 60%. The obvious is that oxygen transmission increases (gets worse) due to a thinner layer. This means that extruder screw speed is 60% less, which means that ...

Flexpack: DuPont Honors Innovation

(Flexpack)

May 31, 2010, ... & Tear bag, which combines the superior shrink, toughness, and oxygen barrier properties of a traditional vacuum shrink bag with the addition of an easy-open feature. A user simply grabs the package and ...

Toray Plastics Announces Commercialization of European Plant

(News | New Products)

May 12, 2010, ... Plastics (America), Inc., assumed a leadership role in TFE’s expansion into packaging film, driving the development and commercialization of Torayfan metallized heat-sealable and nonsealable high-oxygen-barrier ...

Plants for Pretzels

(First Glance)

April 30, 2010, ... a year of R&D, Clear Lam replaced conventional petroleum-based plastics with material derived primarily from renewable Ingeo PLA from NatureWorks. To create the appropriate oxygen- and moisture-barrier ...

Mocon-Certified Mumbai Testing Lab Earns Independent Certification

(News | New Products)

April 26, 2010, ... under the ISO/IEC 17025:2005 standard for oxygen and water vapor permeation testing of plastic barrier materials. The government of India has authorized NABL as the accreditation body for testing and ...

Davis-Standard Chinaplas Exhibit To Offer Expert Advise

(News | New Products)

April 08, 2010, ... extrusion capacity without sacrificing output. Other film equipment includes machinery for hygienic, oxygen barrier, optical, medical and CPP films.  Wide fabric coating/laminating machines are engineered ...

Amcor Flexibles Expands Blown Film Capabilities

(News | New Products)

April 06, 2010, ... to develop and manufacture next generation peelable films, oxygen and moisture barrier films, and high-performance forming films,” comments Michael Barr, product manager Americas, Coex & Converted. “In ...

Narrow Web's Leverag

(Label/Tape)

March 31, 2010, ... packaging of snacks, baked goods, and ice cream novelties Multi-Ply Snack Webs | Nuts and other oxygen-sensitive salted snacks Stickpacks | Designed for high-speed, tubular formed, powdered drink mix ...

Flexible Packaging: Narrow Web's Leverag

(Flexpack)

March 21, 2010, ... Webs | Nuts and other oxygen-sensitive salted snacks • Stickpack | Designed for high-speed, tubular formed, powdered drink mix packets • Coffee Web: Coffee, including single-serve and ground coffee packages, ...

Flexible Packaging: Capital Commitments

(Flexpack)

February 28, 2010, ... that requires barrier from oxygen, odor, moisture, or oil…we can now enter those markets.” Eco-Efficient Laminations The purchase of a Nordmeccanica Super Simplex SL laminator, made in November 2009, ...

Click To Pick

(New Products)

February 28, 2010, ... overall thickness or raw materials content. Microlayer technology is said to allow extrusion processors and converters to achieve increases in impact strength, elongation, oxygen and moisture barrier, ...

Tube Film for Many Products

(New Products)

February 28, 2010, Apex 7862 barrier tube film can be formed into an easy-to-seal, easy-to-open, single or sample-use tube package for a wide variety of healthcare, personal Apex 7862 barrier tube film can be formed into ...

Multiplying Key Coex Layers Improves Properties

(New Products)

February 28, 2010, ... is said to allow extrusion processors and converters to achieve increases in impact strength, elongation, oxygen and moisture barrier, and other properties. Potential applications range from industrial ...

Bagmaking: Cleaning Up on F/F/S

(Substrates)

January 31, 2010, ... oxygen-barrier substrates. The substrates produced are both durable and 100% recyclable. Plastixx operates 72-in. Varex blown film lines from Windmoeller & Hoelscher (W&H) and also has eight-color printing ...