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Flexible film use wraps up awards

A bag for grease lubricant and a label for bottled juice are just two examples of innovative film uses that earned Golden Mummy and Pyramid awards.

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Each year the Films Division of Mobil Chemical Co. (Pittsford, NY) presents awards to converters and packagers for innovative flexible packaging and label applications that incorporate Mobil film. This year the Golden Mummy and Pyramid Awards were presented Nov. 10 in Chicago during Pack Expo.

Keystone Business Services, Ogden, UT, used Mobil Bicor® AXT oriented polypropylene for a pouch that holds 2 oz of lubricant for tractor-trailers. The 110-ga flexographically printed two-color pouch has an acrylic coating on the outside and a polyvinylidene chloride coating on the inside to provide barrier and seal integrity required to prevent the lubricant from leaking. The film is printed by Zimmer Customer-Made Packaging (Sacramento, CA).

Dennis Spiers, president of Keystone, a manufacturer of lubricant, says he's happy with the package. "What gained everyone's attention is that we used a food-grade film in an industrial application," he says.

While Keystone garnered a Golden Mummy Award, Wisconsin Rapids, WI-based Northland Cranberries earned a Pyramid Award. The company makes Northland 100% Juice Cranberry Blends (far right). The four-color, offset-printed labels use Mobil Label-Lyte® LS 447 biaxially oriented PP film, and are glue-applied to polyethylene terephthalate bottles that hold 16 oz of juice. The 3-mil film resists moisture and abrasion, important attributes in the distribution and retailing of this product. The labels are printed by Hammer Lithograph Corp. (Rochester, NY).

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