UPM Raflatac, a self-adhesive label materials supplier, has announced cooperation with Aliplast’s French subsidiary for recovery of release liner in France. The partnership is expected to expand recycling services of Italian company ...
Tags: UPM, Aliplast, Release Liner Recovery
UK-based Fuel For Adventure has selected compostable flexible material NatureFlex of Innovia Films to pack its range of natural energy bars. Fuel For Adventure founder Jimmy Docherty said, 'Compostable NatureFlex films can help us to ...
Toray Industries has announced a JPY3bn ($32m) investment in Asia to strengthen its vapor deposition capabilities for food packaging films. As part of the expansion plan, Toray Advanced Film (TAF) will introduce state-of-the-art vapor ...
Tags: Toray, food, food industry
Global life sciences and materials sciences company Royal DSM’s development partner MF-Folien in Southern Germany has introduced a new polyamide film based on DSM’s bio-based EcoPaXX polyamide 410. EcoPaXX polyamide 410 films ...
Tags: MF-Folien, Polyamide Film, Packaging
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
Teijin Limited announced that it will establish a specialized department to accelerate materials business incubation through technology acquisitions and alliances from April 1. The new Technology Alliance Development Department, ...
Tags: Textile, Industrial Equipment
Toray Industries has announced a series of investments totaling about JPY3bn ($32m) to expand the production of food packaging films in Asia through some of its regional supervisory divisions. The core company of the group's film business ...
Tags: Toray, Food Packaging, Packaging
Quantum dots will cascade into the marketplace. They offer lower cost, longer life, and brighter lighting, according to WinterGreen Research’s new study Quantum Dot and Quantum Dot Display (QLED) Market Shares, Strategy, and ...
Tags: QLED market, Dot LED, LED lighting
Researchers in South Korea have developed a new gold-doping process for graphene transparent conducting layers (TCLs) that improves its adhesion and electrical contact with near-ultraviolet light-emitting diodes (NUV-LEDs) [Chu-Young Cho et ...
Tags: NUV-LEDs GaN Graphene, Electrical, Electronics, LED
Kuraray America Inc. aims to highlight the TROSIFOL brand in the North American market by joining the Glass Association of North America (GANA). The manufacturer of PVB films for laminated safety glass expects to learn more about their ...
Tags: Glass Association, Glass
Calcium Carbonate is a chemical compound especially found in the shells of marine animals, pearls, snails, egg shells and rocks. It is used medicinally as a supplement for calcium or antacid. It causes hard water and is an essential ...
Bioscience company Metabolix has announced a distribution agreement with the Tianjin GreenBio Materials in China. According to the agreement terms, GreenBio's SoGreen heat shrink film will be distributed by Metabolix in Europe, which will ...
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has gotten involved in a patent infringement with Boston University in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. Boston University alleges that Samsung “regularly and deliberately” ...
Tags: LED devices, LED, Samsung
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 ...
Tags: exhibit packaging, packaging, printing
US-based Label Technology has installed a Martin butt splicer on a new MPS EXL660 flexible packaging press. According to Martin Automatic, the splicer equals the productivity specifications of the 10-unit, 26-inch digital servo drive ...