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Ummm ... tasty. Film melts in your mouth.(News)(a new product category has developed -- breath-freshening film)
Plastics News, September, 2003 by Pryweller, Joseph
Byline: Joseph Pryweller There are breath mints and there is plastic film. And now, there is an entirely new product category that meshes the formerly unrelated entities: Call it breath-freshening film. That market, a cottage industry built over the past 22 months, includes players both large and small.
Breath-product behemoths Pfizer Inc., which makes Listerine, and Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co. now run in-house film-casting lines to make the melt-in-your-mouth products from exotic copolymers. And small film extruder Aquafilm LLC of Tampa, Fla., now serves a lion's share of the private-label brands for that market, after pioneering new uses for edible film. The company set up its first flavored-film lines in Tampa almost three years ago. Now it is expanding and...
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