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A comprehensive and highly practical survey of the materials, hardware, processes and applications of flexible plastic films. Aimed at a wide audience of engineers, technicia… Read more
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A comprehensive and highly practical survey of the materials, hardware, processes and applications of flexible plastic films.
Aimed at a wide audience of engineers, technicians, managers, purchasing agents and users, Multilayer Flexible Packaging provides a thorough introduction to the manufacturing and applications of flexible plastic films, covering:
Materials
Hardware and Processes
Multilayer film designs and applications
The materials coverage includes detailed sections on polyethylene, polypropylene and additives. The dies used to produce multilayer films are explored in the hardware section, and the process engineering of film manufacture explained, with a particular focus on meeting specifications and targets. The section includes unique coverage of the problematic area of bending technology, providing a unique explanation of the issues involved in the blending of viscoelastic non-Newtonian polymeric materials.
About the author
John R. Wagner, Jr. is President of Crescent Associates, Inc., a consulting firm that specializes in plastic films and flexible packaging. He graduated from the University of Notre Dame with a BS and MS in Chemical Engineering.
Part I: Introduction Part II: Resins 2. PE Processes3. Polypropylene4. Additives to design and improve the performance of multilayer flexible packaging5. Rheology of molten polymers
Part III: Technologies 6. Coextrusion equipment for multilayer flat films and sheets7. Multilayer blown (tubular) film dies8. Process engineering9. Blown film, cast film and lamination processes10. Machine direction oriented film technology11. Oriented film technology12. Polymer blending for packaging applications13. Water- and solvent-based coating technology14. Vacuum metallizing for flexible packagingPart IV: Multilayer Films - Descriptions, Performance Characteristics, Uses, Considerations, Properties15. PE based multilayer film structure16. Multilayer oriented films
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