W.F. Taylor announces a new adhesive. MS Plus Resilient Acous-Tec MBA Multifunctional Adhesive for resilient flooring now offers 3rd party certified sound deadening ratings of 59 IIC & 61 STC, meeting or exceeding major building code sound ...
Tags: Construction, flooring, Adhesive
Bolivia will be exporting petrochemicals and petrochem products to its neighboring countries such as Argentina, Brazil and Peru. Bolivia’s state owned petro-chemical company Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales Bolivianos (YPFB) ...
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German adhesives supplier Jowat is all set to introduce its new adhesive developments for the labeling and carton closing industries at the Drinktec 2013 in Munich. The company will exhibit its Jowat-Toptherm for labeling of beverage ...
Tags: Adhesive Developments, Packaging
Adhesive systems do not work in isolation. For a correct adhesive bond of the required strength and the right physical, chemical properties it's important to factor in the physical and chemical factors at play. At a glance the factors ...
NSF Sustainability, a division of global independent public health organization NSF International, has verified an Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) for a broad variety of nylon carpet styles and colors manufactured by Mannington ...
Tags: NSF Sustainability, Carpet Tiles, EDP
Perfecseal, a division of Bemis company, has launched a new high barrier PVC-FREE blister forming web, PerfecForm SkyBlue, which uses polyolefin chemistry instead of chlorine chemistry. Manufactured by a co-extrusion process as a ...
Tags: PVC-Free Blister, Medicine
EATP (the European Association for Textile Polyolefins), in close collaboration with CIRFS, the European Man-made Fibres Association, held its annual Executive Seminar in Brussels on May 28. Textile polyolefins are a major sector of ...
Perfecseal, a division of Bemis, has unveiled a new polyvinyl chloride (PVC)-Free blister forming web, PerfecForm SkyBlue. According to the company, manufactured through a co-extrusion process as a symmetrical structure, the high barrier ...
Tags: PVC-Free Film, Packaging
The VS1620 Combo Unit is a new solution for manually sealing and shrinking a variety of products. It combines an L-sealer and shrink tunnel on a common frame with one power source, allowing for quick setup, exact alignment and consistent ...
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Investment firm Cove Point’s affiliate has purchased Bemis’ Clysar division, which manufactures polyolefin shrink films that are used to wrap food and consumer goods. The sale allows packaging and pressure sensitive materials ...
Tags: Cove Point, Films, Packaging
Nyco, a Clondalkin Group company, has announced the launch of a new recyclable polyolefin sleeve, which enables to separate shrink sleeves from PET bottles or cups by automated recycling processes. The new low density material is said to ...
Tags: Nyco, Polyolefin Sleeve
Mattex — a Saudi Arabia-owned, Dubai-based producer of carpet backings, artificial grass backings, and woven and nonwoven geotextiles — will invest $60 million to establish a U.S. headquarters and manufacturing operation in ...
China, the largest textile producing country, is planning to develop textile raw materials, such as olefin and polyester, using coal in order to reduce its dependence on imported petroleum, according to South Korea- based recent report by ...
European naphtha prices have come under pressure from run cuts in the polyolefin chain as well as falling crude prices, with ICE Brent futures sinking to an eight-month low Friday, sources said. CIF NWE naphtha was assessed at $846.50/mt ...
Tags: polyethylene market, polyethylene
Australian developer and manufacturer of sustainable resins Cardia Bioplastics has joined forces with Highland Plastics to provide sustainable packaging systems for consumer and institutional applications. As part of this, Highland ...
Tags: packaging systems, packaging