U.S. demand for specialty films is forecast to advance 5.2 percent per year to $8.0 billion in 2017. Gains will be driven by the increasing need for high-performance plastic films which offer barrier properties, mechanical strength, and ...
Tags: Specialty Films, US, Packaging
Medical protective clothing strength testing is of great importance. Medical protective clothing strength testing includes index testing like material tensile strength testing, peeling strength testing of laminated films, hot seal strength ...
Australia's $9 billion polymers industry will be boosted by a national cooperative research initiative. The launch featured a novel degradable plastic film that Greening Australia and the Birchip Cropping Group have shown can dramatically ...
Tags: Chemicals, plastic film, Packaging, Printing
Global supplier of packaging equipment and services Bobst is all set to present its range of equipment for converters in the folding carton, corrugated board and flexible materials printing and converting industries, at Converflex ...
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Company Evonik Industries is now bringing on to the market the successful TAICROS crosslinking booster in yet another promising application: As an additive in UV-curable clear coatings, TAICROS ensures chemical resistance and improved ...
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Epigem’s Epimesh film will used for flexible OLED development Redcar-based firm Epigem has secured €444,000 (GBP 379,355) from the EU to help deliver flexible organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) to market. The company is a ...
The firm claims that it is the largest producer of paper-based tubes and cores in North America which are used to serve the paper, textiles, plastic films and tape and specialty industries. “This price increase is necessary to ...
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Austrian flexible packaging group Constantia Flexibles has completed the acquisition of 100% of Globalpack in Mexico. The parties have not disclosed the purchase price of the transaction. Constantia Flexibles CEO Thomas Unger said, "With ...
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US-based Berry Plastics together with Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear announced that the company will reopen its Madisonville, Kentucky, manufacturing facility to increase its production capacity. Berry Plastics chairman and CEO Jon Rich ...
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A new oxodegradable polymer, a kind of plastic that can decompose in a couple of months when exposed to sunlight, has been developed by the scientists from the Institute of Chemical Technology, Matunga in Mumbai, India. The polymer was ...
Tags: Bio-Degradable Plastic, oxodegradable polymer, Oxodegradable plastics
Australia-based Novasys Group has unveiled the new Hanatek FST, a range of film shrink testers that allow the shrink film percentage to be determined. According to the company, the testers have been designed to measure the effect of ...
Tags: Film Shrink Testers, linear thermal shrink, free shrink
Global packaging company Sonoco has announced the commercial availability of its radial crush tester, which simulates the pressures applied during the winding processes of rolled products such as plastic films and measures the radial ...
South African paper and packaging company Mondi Group has secured European Union (EU) regulatory approval for its $782m acquisition of packaging company Nordenia in Germany from private equity firm Oaktree Capital. According to Mondi, the ...
Tags: paper and packaging, flexible packaging, consumer products
Finland-based biodegradable films producer, Plastiroll has unveiled a new bio-film, claimed to extend the life of fresh food products such as fruits and vegetables. According to the company, its transparent packaging film was made from ...
Tags: packaging film, bio-film, prolong, fresh food
The EU-funded team of researchers, a consortium consisting of experts from Germany, Spain, Ireland, Italy, Hungary and Slovenia and led by the Spain-based Patronal de la Petita i Mitjana Empresa de Catalunya (PIMEC) has developed a new ...