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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

Additives, coatings & inks

Reason finally overtakes Delaney

With great political fanfare, President Bill Clinton signed pesticide reform legislation in late July establishing a single health-based standard for both raw and processed foods.

August 31, 1996

Flexibles

Resins OK'd for fatty food packaging

In June the Food and Drug Administration approved Exxon Chemical's (Houston, TX) Oppera® modified polypropylene film resins for use in direct contact with fatty foods such as salty snacks, processed meats and cheeses, and confectionery items.

August 31, 1996

Closures

Pearlescent coating finishes

Tech Industries (Woonsocket, RI) has introduced one-coat pearlescent finishes for closures. They consist of specialty pigments mixed with tin-free rutile titanium dioxide- and/or iron oxide-coated mica particles to provide color gradation and texture.

July 31, 1996

Additives, coatings & inks

Octagonal bulk container

Easy8(TM) is a patented new heavy-duty bulk corrugated container that sets up in about four seconds, says manufacturer Georgia-Pacific (Atlanta, GA).

July 31, 1996

Flexibles

Heat-resistant resin

Capron® PA 6 and PA 6.6 homopolymer resins from AlliedSignal Plastics (Morristown, NJ) are heat-resistant and have a high barrier against oxygen, flavor and aroma permeation.

July 31, 1996

Flexibles

Photodegradable additive

Willow Ridge Plastics (Erlanger, KY) has developed UV-H(TM), a photodegradable masterbatch additive for plastics requiring degradation by sunlight.

July 31, 1996

Conveying & accumulation

Premier Plastics grows PET bottle business

California blow molder is among the first in the U.S. to use a 24-cavity injection/stretch blow-molding machine that increases 1/2-liter PET bottle output by at least 40 million per year.

July 31, 1996

Additives, coatings & inks

Supplier news: Appointments, promotions

Chevron Chemical (Houston, TX): Ed J. Ueckert, national sales mgr., PE Molding Resins.

July 31, 1996

Additives, coatings & inks

Supplier news: Domestic acquisitions, agreements

NOVA Corp. (Calgary, Alberta, Canada) plans to purchase ARCO Chemical's (Newtown Square, PA) plastics business, including DYLITE® EPS and DYLARK® engineering resins product lines.

July 31, 1996

Converting equipment

Modular molds add flexibility to bottle molding

Unique system makes it easier for packagers to have custom bottles injection/ blow molded even when the number of bottles needed is relatively low.

July 31, 1996