Foil Packs Offer Multiple Solutions
DSSELDORF, GERMANY The European Aluminum Foil Assn. handed out Alufoil Trophies for four Foil Packs of the Year. Winning top honors were the following:...
The Mettle of Metallizers
Published back in 1997, The Wiley Encyclopedia of Packaging Technology, 2nd ed., stated: The field of vacuum metallizing serving the packaging industry...
Novel Method for Testing the Grease Resistance of Plastic-Based Dry Pet Food Packaging
Dry pet food packaging needing high resistance to staining from or migration of fat content requires rapid and reliable standardized tests for development and quality control purposes. New tests show high reproducibility and good correlation with field performance....
A Secure Alternative
Micro-optic films have been developed to respond to the ever-diminshing security provided by holograms and DOVIDs....
Migration of Fluorescent Whitening Agents from Food Packaging Made from Recycled Paper
Application: A polyethylene coating can prevent migration of fluorescent whitening agents from food packaging made from recycled fibers....
Synthetic Paper: The Real Deal
From labels for food packaging to children's books, synthetic paper applications are finding a niche within the converting industry and beyond....
The PLACE Division of TAPPI Announces Film and Extrusion Coating Short Course
The PLACE Division of TAPPI has announced a short course entitled: 2004 PLACE Film and Extrusion Coating Short Course. It will be April 19-21, 2004, at the Millennium Hotel in St. Louis, Missouri....
G Prime A Rheological Indicator to Predict the Extrusion Coating Performance of LDPE
Application: A new rheological test method can predict the processing performance of LDPE for extrusion coating....
TAPPI Offers New Product
Beginning in March 2004, TAPPI will offer a new product for companies and individuals who use the TAPPI Test Methods and Technical Information Papers (TIPS)....
UV & Jet Inks: An Exciting Combo
Jet ink printers dominate the growth of digital printing. One of the most promising applications of jet ink technologies is radiation-curable jet inks used in package and label printing....
Sniffing Out the Sources of Packaging Odors
Packaging products consist of substrates, and they can contain adhesives, primers, coatings, or inks. Converting processes involved in package manufacturing...
Security Inks Raise Our Level of Protection
Dramatic advances in digital photographic and reprographic technology were made during the 1990s. These advances have had an undesirable side effect in that such technology provides counterfeiters greater capability to create counterfeits....
Freedonia Group Nonwovens Report Forecasts Demand Hikes thru 2007
According to a recently published study by the Freedonia Group, demand for nonwoven roll goods in the United States is expected to increase 3.9 percent per year, to nearly $5 billion [USD] in 2007....
BOPP Film: How Real Is the China Threat?
Plans to increase BOPP capacity in China have industry players worried....
Foil Converter Changes Course
Heat sealable lidding films make U.K.-based FFP Packaging Solutions Ltd. a leader in innovation....
Furthering Substrate Functionality
Like to fool around with the functionality of your films? Want to print that hard-to-adhere-to substrate with water-based inks to reduce VOCs? If you...
Producing Coextruded High Barrier Heat-Shrinkable Packaging Films
Application: Examining and comparing high barrier polymers and structures provides guidelines for matching film performance with application....
100 Recycled Paperboard Makes 'Great' Strides
The 100% Recycled Paperboard Alliance says 2003 has been a good year for the 100% recycled paperboard industry....
Adhesion of Coatings to Aluminum Foil
Application: The composition and chemistry of an aluminum foil surface are important to achieve good wettability, bond formation, and durable adhesion on this substrate....
What Can Conductive Organic Polymers Do?
One difference between metals and organic materials is that metals conduct electricity. We know biological systems work in a complex matrix of electrical responses to control various activities, yet most organic materials are considered nonconductors compared to metals, such as aluminum, copper, and silver....
Winning with Covers
The critical question for converters is: "Just how do you work with heavyweights?"...
Cyclic-Olefinic Copolymers as Non-Migrating, Polymeric Slip Additives in LDPE Cast Films
Application: Cyclic-olefinic copolymers (COC) have use in flexible packaging as a blend component or as a discreet layer in multi-layer polyolefin films. They typically enhance stiffness and heat resistance in food packaging. As a core layer in laminated or coextruded multilayer films, they provide high moisture barrier and exceptional clarity and stiffness....
PCI World BOPP Study Reveals China Impact Maybe Not as Dramatic as Some Fear
A new study on the 3.2 million tonne world BOPP film market by UK-based market intelligence firm PCI Consulting Ltd. concludes the effect on the world supply/demand balance of planned capacity increases in China may not be as dramatic as some fear....
Avery Dennison Adds SynCarta BOPP to Fasson Rapid-Roll Line
Avery Dennison Corp. reports it's enhanced its Fasson Rapid-Roll product line with SynCarta synthetic media. According to the manufacturer of pressure-sensitive technology and self-adhesive solutions for label materials and consumer products, these BOPP films are highly engineered synthetic media available in C1S matte and ultra-high-gloss finishes....
Measure Pressure with Thin Film
Tactile pressure-sensor films offer converters an easy pressure-measuring tool....
