Packaging

Film Extrusion

Processors Align to Offer FFS Solutions

A maker of forming films for packaging and a maker of lidstock films join forces.

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Packaging

Make Bottles by Vertical Thermoforming

Sheet is formed into a tube and then into bottles.

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Packaging

Developing Tomorrow’s Containers: Inside Amcor’s R&D Center

How award-winning package design, full-service laboratory facilities, and game-changing process development support a world-class injection and blow molder.

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Commodity Resins

Specialty Olefinic TPE For High-End Cast Power Pre-Stretch Films

ExxonMobil's new Vistamaxx 6000 making a debut at NPE is designed for use in the functional layer of cast power pre-stretch films.

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Materials

Carbon Fiber Filament For New 3D Printing Capabilities

  Just last year, Eastman Chemical and Helian Polymers of The Netherlands, a leader in filament 3D manufacturing, teamed up to launch a 3D printing filament under Helian’s ColorFabb brand based on Eastman’s Amphora 3D XT-copolyester.

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Construction

ExxonMobil To Host Seminars On Packaging & Stretch Film

Another major material supplier, ExxonMobil Chemicals, to host seminars on market trends and product innovations.

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Packaging

PE Prices Bottom Out? PP Prices Move Up!

Not a surprise: The volatility of PE and PP prices is on a roll.

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Biopolymers

DuPont To Address Recycling, Lightweighting, Material Selection

At NPE2015, DuPont scientists and other industry experts will host seminars on recycling and material innovation & selection for automotive, packaging, and medical devices.

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INJECTION MOLDING AT NPE: Molding Exhibits Show Off Cell Integration with Multiple Processes & Operations

If you’re interested in lightweight composites, IML, LSR, multi-shot, inmold assembly, barrier coinjection, micromolding, variotherm molding, foams, energy-saving presses, robots, hot runners, and tooling—they’re all here in force.

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BLOW MOLDING AT NPE: Energy Savings, Lightweighting & Flexibility

New machines are mostly all-electric, hybrid, or servo-hydraulic.

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