Additives, coatings & inks

Patently controversial

Big business is losing the fight to make patent applications public. But it's gaining on its goal of creating a better funded, better operated U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

July 31, 1997

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Flexibles

Cryogenic cooling of heat-set PET awaits patents

The technology's not commercial yet, and it certainly has its skeptics. Test results show that thermal and barrier properties are enhanced significantly by blowing PET into heated molds and cooling with LN2 delivered by a unique new system.

July 31, 1997

Consumer packaged goods

Supplier news: Relocations, expansions

Millennium Petrochemicals Inc. (Cincinnati, OH) plans to shut down its HDPE production plant in La Porte, TX, by the end of 1998. The company will add 200 million lb/yr of LDPE and LLDPE capacities by the end of 2001 by debottlenecking existing reactors in Clinton, IA, Port Arthur and La Porte, TX.

July 31, 1997

Flexibles

Minute Maid offers Hi-C drinks in shaped, marsupial pouches

The Coca-Cola Co., Atlanta, GA, is packaging drinks in bottle-contoured pouches. We suggested they might do this (see Packaging World, September '95, p.

July 31, 1997

Additives, coatings & inks

Supplier news: Domestic acquisitions, agreements

Millennium Petrochemicals (Cincinnati, OH) entered into an alliance with MSI Technology (Arlington Heights, IL) for the sale of Millennium's Plexar® tie-layer resins.

July 31, 1997

Additives, coatings & inks

Supplier news: Domestic acquisitions, agreements

Shell Chemical Co. (Houston, TX) entered a distribution agreement with M.A. Hanna Resin Distribution (Lemont, IL) for Shell's Carilon® polymers.

July 31, 1997

Secondary Packaging

Eastman announces new LLDPEs

The debate over metallocene technology continued at the National Plastics Exposition '97 when Eastman Chemical (Kingsport, TN) announced two new linear-low-density polyethylenes.

June 30, 1997

Consumer packaged goods

Supplier news:

National Starch and Chemical Co. (Bridgewater, NJ): Ole Eriksen, sales development mgr., Food and Consumer Pkg. Dept., Adhesives Div.; James Owens, business director, p-s and laminating adhesives.

June 30, 1997

Consumer packaged goods

Supplier news: Klockner Packaging Machinery

Klockner Packaging Machinery (Sarasota, FL): Michael Sapyta, Midwest regional sales mgr. for food, chemical and general consumer products applications.

June 30, 1997

Controls & Machine Components

Stainless-steel containers

A complete line of stainless-steel containers from Spartanburg Stainless Products (Spartanburg, SC) is available for storing and transporting chemicals such as pesticides, industrial substances or nuclear waste.

June 30, 1997

Coding, Printing & Labeling

The 'slimy' side of FQPA

EPA and FDA are mucking up the approval process for slimicides and additives-at least temporarily. In addition, label changes for germicides are also at issue.

June 30, 1997

Confection/Candy

Supplier news:

by 330ꯠ tons/yr. Amoco Polymers will increase its PP capacity by 250ꯠ tons/yr at its Chocolate Bayou chemical plant near Alvin, TX.

June 30, 1997

Protective/transport packaging

Box boosts sales

An attractive dark green chipboard box topped with a clear lid of thermoformed polyvinyl chloride has already boosted orders this year for the Copper Mermaid line of Americana brass ornaments from Pen & Inc., Concord, NH.

June 30, 1997