Cortec’s MilCorr VpCI shrink film helps to greatly preserve surfaces against the most powerful elements of nature by providing non-toxic, environmentally friendly protection with corrosion inhibitors
Reifenhäuser Kiefel Extrusion of Troisdorf/Germany and DuPont Packaging & Industrial Polymers have developed a peelable, surface-printable, multi-layer, high-barrier lidding film, which seals directly and effectively to mono-APET trays, even through fat and meat juices
Nordson Extrusion Dies Industries has developed enhancements to extrusion coating dies and internal deckles that make it possible for converters to reduce edge bead with low melt strength polymers while maintaining coat weight uniformity
Haver Filling Systems Inc., provider of automated bagging- and liquid-filling machines, has added fully automated bag-palletizing machines manufactured by Newtec Bag Palletizing to its line of bulk material packaging equipment.
Apurva Shah, North America market manager for food and specialty packaging at Dow Performance Packaging, offers his knowledge of the latest developments in raw materials, feedstock and resins.
While some may say a flexible package will always be “just a package,” flexible packaging converters can look at the digital evolution that took place in commercial printing and label converting to see how digital printing technology will transform their industry in the coming years.