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Shrink Bags Are Chlorine-Free

(News Eclips)

December 15, 2008, Curwood now offers Eco-Tite shrink bags for meats and cheeses OSHKOSH, WI | Curwood now offers Eco-Tite shrink bags for meats and cheeses. Bags are said to contain no polyvinylidene chloride and use 25%–33% ...

What's New Product

(New Products)

November 30, 2008, ... skin yet remove cleanly with no residue. Adhesives offer good oxygen and moisture vapor exchange to keep a chronic wound moist and accelerate healing. Said to be impermeable to liquids, bacteria, and viruses. ...

Compostable and Biodegradeable Packaging

(News Eclips)

October 09, 2008, ... serves as a barrier to light, oxygen, and moisture. The outside cellulose layer is printed so that the eco-friendly water-based inks are trapped between the layers and ink can’t scratch off. The foil side ...

UV/EB Inks Are Suitable for Laminated Structures

(Inks/Coatings/Primers)

September 30, 2008, ... also acts as a functional barrier between the ink layers and the packaged goods. The functional barrier can prevent migration of species, especially organic materials, water, oxygen, and nitrogen. In ...

Sustainable Packaging for Specialty Meat

(Archive)

June 30, 2008, ... oxygen is immediately removed to preserve freshness, a critical step in the packaging process. At the same time, a layer of film locks in the container's controlled atmosphere. The container also features ...

Materials/Substrates: Custom Fit

(Substrates)

May 31, 2008, ... board has a shiny, metallic look achieved by applying a metallized BOPP on top of the board. Aluminum foil on the reverse side, the company reports, provides excellent barrier against humidity, oxygen, ...

Toray Plastics to Lead Toray Industries' Expansion in Europe

(Archive)

March 02, 2008, ... continue to bring new value-added high oxygen barrier and high moisture barrier film advancements to TFE as it develops them. Toray Industries expects to invest approximately $100 million in the project. ...

Melamine Revisited

(Coating/Laminating)

January 31, 2008, ... coatings, has self-healing properties, and retains its oxygen barrier properties in very high temperatures and humidities. Its oxygen barrier values compare with, and sometimes exceed, those achieved with ...

Functional Coatings Innovation from DSM

(Flexpack)

November 08, 2007, Stamicarbon BV (DSM Licensing Center) has launched Symphase Technology, an patented process for the creation of transparent oxygen barrier layers based on the vapor depostion of melamine. This technology ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

September 30, 2007, ... Sells OS Business DUNCAN, SC | Sealed Air Corp. has acquired Chevron Phillips Chemical Co.’s oxygen scavenging (OS) business, including production assets, patents, and other intellectual properties for ...

the PLACE

(Magazine)

July 31, 2007, ... as softening or toughening of a food product. Softening can frequently result from the activity of various endogenous enzymes found in certain food products. The oxygen barrier properties of the packaging ...

A Communication from the PLACE Div. of TAPPI

(Magazine)

June 30, 2007, ... barrier lidding materials have good oxygen barrier properties, die cutting, print and seal peel properties. Since foil based lidding materials have poor abuse resistance and are hampered by metal detection ...

the PLACE

(Magazine)

May 31, 2007, ... in use for many years. Reductions in oxygen transmission rates of approximately 70-75% for both latex materials and resins have been achieved. These allow flexible packaging converters the ability to offer ...

Leader of the Six-Pack

(Magazine)

March 31, 2007, ... structure, while the metallization (performed by Celplast) and the EVOH in the sealant layer provide the required oxygen barrier. Strength Under Water A technical award in the label, retail category, ...

What's Ne

(Magazine)

March 31, 2007, ... (America), North Kingstown, RI; 401/294-4511; www.torayfilms.com Torayfan PC5 and PWX5 ultra-high-barrier, metallized PP films offer 10x the oxygen barrier of metallized films from previous generations, ...

the PLACE

(Magazine)

March 31, 2007, ... Other additives to include oxygen scavengers may sometimes improve the barrier. The leading “old” high barrier resins are still preferrable in packaging applications. Recent improvements in EVOH — thermal ...

Product Protection

(Technical Reports)

February 28, 2007, ... are more sensitive to moisture and oxygen than the fats they replace. This means if the packaging for the reformulated product does not have better moisture vapor- and oxygen-barrier properties than the ...

Leader of the Six-Pack

(Magazine)

February 27, 2007, ... the metallization (performed by Celplast) and the EVOH in the sealant layer provide the required oxygen barrier. Moisture Hangup Vacumet won a second technical award, this time in the nonfood category, ...

the PLACE

(Magazine)

January 31, 2007, ... vapor, oxygen, carbon dioxide, and ethylene. The likelihood of development of a single PLA film that could provide a flawless package for all forms of produce while providing a perfect barrier for respiration, ...

the PLACE

(Magazine)

December 31, 2006, ... or dissimilar substrates used in flexible packaging. Having an adhesive layer that can also provide oxygen barrierproperties is very desirable in flexible packaging applications. The potential to combine ...