Packaging
Packaging: New System Produces Wide Variety of ‘Tethered’ Bottle Caps.
A wide variety of tethered caps, designed to meet EU regulations for 2024, can be produced on a new compact, high-speed line from SACMI.
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Honeywell Debuts Aclar Edge Barrier Bottles for Pharmaceuticals
Honeywell has expanded beyond Aclar barrier films into Aclar Edge barrier bottles for pharmaceuticals and other moisture- and oxygen-sensitive products.
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New to Using Color Concentrates? Follow These Tips to Improve Results
With a focus on highly loaded color concentrates, here is a guide for processors of rigid packaging and building products on how to specify the appropriate colorant for these applications.
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Barnes Group Announces Restructuring
The company, whose portfolio companies include Synventive, Thermoplay, männer, Foboha, Priamus and Gammaflux, will cut approximately 400 jobs globally.
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Pandemic’s Impact on U.S. Plastics Appears Weaker Than Originally Forecast
A second quarter economic report from the Plastics Industry Association (PLASTICS) reveals the possibility of a less severe coronavirus slowdown in the plastics industry than previously expected.
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BOPE Takes Aim at BOPP & BOPET Films
Nova’s new biaxially oriented HDPE is seen as a more easily recyclable monomaterial contender versus multilayer BOPP or BOPET films.
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Braskem Completes Construction of World-Scale PP Facility in LaPorte, Texas
Braskem’s facility is the first new PP production facility built in North America since 2003 and has global export capacity.
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R&D/Leverage in Stretch-Blow Tooling Alliance with Aoki
A domestic source for tool design, build and repair for Aoki injection stretch-blow molding machines.
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PE Film Market Snapshot 2020: Consumer/Industrial Product Liners
Monolayer structures still dominate this market.
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Additives: Processing Aid for PET and rPET Preforms
PolyOne’s ColorMatrix AAzure processing aid for PET and rPET preforms boasts added acetaldehyde (AA) control capabilities.
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