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Multilayer Flexible Packaging

Technology and Applications for the Food, Personal Care, and Over-the-Counter Pharmaceutical Industries

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

Description

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.

Readership

Plastics engineers, process engineers, quality assurance and reliability engineers and manufacturing engineers who manufacture, convert and use flexible plastic films.

Table of contents

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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About the editor

JW

John R. Wagner Jr.

John Wagner is a Director of Crescent Associates, Inc., which specializes in plastic films and flexible packaging. He holds numerous patents on flexible packaging films and coating technology, has contributed to and co-edited The SPE Guide on Extrusion Technology and Troubleshooting and The Plastics Technician’s Toolbox-Extrusion, and is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Plastic Film and Sheeting. He is on the SPE Extrusion Division Board of Directors.

About the author

JW

John R. Wagner Jr.

John Wagner is a Director of Crescent Associates, Inc., which specializes in plastic films and flexible packaging. He holds numerous patents on flexible packaging films and coating technology, has contributed to and co-edited The SPE Guide on Extrusion Technology and Troubleshooting and The Plastics Technician’s Toolbox-Extrusion, and is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Plastic Film and Sheeting. He is on the SPE Extrusion Division Board of Directors.

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