Entries for tag: moisture
Here David Eger of Obrist, a Swiss manufacturer of aluminium tubes, explains something of the advantages of packaging in aluminium tubes at Interpack in Dusseldorf on 28 April 2008 as well as noting a client's promotion for the Euro 2008 football tournament.
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NOVA Chemicals has introduced SURPASS® HPs167-AB resin for use in barrier-film structures. This resin offers high-moisture-barrier performance -- up to 50 percent improvement over existing resins -- and the ability for packaging designers to down gauge without sacrificing performance while helping them to meet their sustainability objectives.
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Protective Packaging Limited, manufacturers of barrier bags and liners made from aluminium foil laminates, will be exhibiting new concepts in Barrier Foil packaging at Emballage.
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Honeywell (NYSE: HON) announced today that it will expand production of Aclar® film to meet growing demand for the clear, moisture-barrier material, which is used extensively in pharmaceutical packaging.
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Analyzing the moisture content of raw materials is one of the most common tasks in product development and in the manufacturing process. Regardless of whether food, chemical or pharmaceutical products, animal feed or other materials, the moisture or water content frequently determines the price, the processability and the material quality of raw materials and final products.
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Toray Industries, has announced that it made a decision to embark on local production in Europe of Torayfan* (bi-axially oriented polypropylene (OPP) film) high-barrier metalized film. Toray will establish Toray Films Europe S.A.S., or TFE, in France in February 2008 and newly construct a film production facility (annual capacity of 20,000 tons) and metalizing facility (annual capacity of 22,000 tons). Toray plans to invest approximately 10 billion yen in this project and the facilities are expected to start operations from April 2010.
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Rhodia Acetow, based in Freiburg, Germany, was awarded a WorldStar 2007 in November by the World Packaging Organisation for its product TOWCUBE®. This is an innovative vacuum film developed specially for packing bales of cellulose acetate, which is used in the manufacture of cigarette filters. Before receiving this accolade, TOWCUBE® had already won the German Packing Award (“Deutscher Verpackungspreis) – see www.verpackung.org – during the FachPack 2007 trade fair. This is also a cause for celebration for Kobusch-Sengewald, the packaging specialist that makes the new film exclusively for Rhodia.
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Multisorb Technologies, the global leader in active packaging solutions, today announced it has won an important patent infringement case against Süd-Chemie, Inc., a company headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky. Süd-Chemie had alleged infringement of the U.S. Patent No. 5793942 by Multisorb’s TranSorb® sorbent packs. On September 7, 2007, the United States District Court in the Western District of Kentucky ruled Süd-Chemie’s patent invalid, and dismissed Sud Chemie’s patent infringement case against Multisorb.
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