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Sustainability

Simplifying approval for food-contact packaging

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) apparently has agreed to a long-sought request to simplify approval for substances used in food-contact packaging by doing away with the time consuming pre-market approval process that requires explicit FDA consent.

September 30, 1996

Converting equipment

Squeeze and spread functions boost bottle

Mentor, OH-based Darworth Co. took advantage of August's National Hardware Show in Chicago to feature FI:X® wood patch in a bottle that literally stands on its head to be noticed.

September 30, 1996

Flexibles

EVA copolymer

Quantum Chemical (Cincinnati, OH) has introduced Ultrathene® UE 672-006, an EVA copolymer resin designed for high-impact, high-clarity blown film.

September 30, 1996

Additives, coatings & inks

PET resins

Luminar(TM) (5122C) is a new PET resin used in custom-produced PET rigid containers to provide high clarity, low haze and good strength. It's available from ICI Chemicals & Polymers (Wilmington, DE).

September 30, 1996

Controls & Machine Components

Polyethylene film

Delta Plastics (Newark, NJ) is introducing the new DeltuffTM 9500 series of PE film. It employs a new generation of linear resins that increase film strength up to five times that of conventional LDPE.

September 30, 1996

Additives, coatings & inks

Recycled HDPE pellets

Recycle (S. Plainfield, NJ) has developed a system which can turn HDPE chips accumulated from destroyed drums into clean, high-quality recycled resin pellets.

August 31, 1996

Flexibles

LDPE resin for bags

Quantum (Cincinnati, OH) has designed a new LDPE resin for high-clarity blown and cast films used to make extruded bags that are easy to open for bakery products or produce.

August 31, 1996

Flexibles

Nylon resins brochure

AlliedSignal Plastics (Morristown, NJ) introduces its B Series Capron HPN® High Productivity Nylon Resins for food and packaging film applications in a new brochure that includes a resin sample.

August 31, 1996

Secondary Packaging

Two-in-one bottle an interesting solution

For years, Glaxo Wellcome had used generic 30-cc high-density polyethylene pharmaceutical bottles to hold 60 tablets of its prescription-only Zantac® medication.

August 31, 1996

Sustainability

Packagers gain price cuts for recycled materials

Buyers of recycled plastics are seeing easing of prices, except for HDPE. Recycled paper prices have precipitously dropped as European economies stagnate.

August 31, 1996

Flexibles

Resin marketers announce metallocene ventures

The Dow Chemical Co. (Midland, MI) and BP Chemicals (Cleveland, OH) last month announced an alliance to develop and make available for licensing a combination of BP's Innovene+ gas-phase polyethylene process and Dow's Insite(TM) catalyst technology.

August 31, 1996

Additives, coatings & inks

Supplier news: Achievements

ISO 9001 registration: ReedSpectrum's (Holden, MA) Albion, MI, and Minneapolis, MN, design and R&D facilities for making plastic color and additive concentrates; Watlow Controls (Winona, MN); Great Plains Packaging's (Hastings, NE) folding carton plant; Fletcher Corp.'s (Alpena, MI) paper plant; Alvey (St.

August 31, 1996