Manufacturing Industry
Pliant readies line of produce films.(News)(Pliant Corp)(Brief article)
Plastics News, October, 2006 by Esposito, Frank
Byline: Frank Esposito Pliant Corp. is using its expertise in polymer blending and multilayer structures to launch a new line of produce films in early 2007. The Breathe-Fresh product line can take a couple of different forms, technical director Doug Lilac said at Flexpo 2006, held Sept.
20-22 in Galveston. The first film is a coextrusion of K-Resin styrenic block copolymer or polypropylene with low density polyethylene, ethylene vinyl acetate or ultralow density PE. The second is reverse-printed oriented PP with EVA, LDPE, ULDPE or linear LDPE. "The market wants a clear, nonporous film for institutional products, and the customer wants a film that crinkles so that they think [the produce] is fresh,'' Lilac said. "Suppliers also want to extend the...
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