Replacing Foil: Practical Solutions for Today’s Packaging Challenges
The growth of e-commerce has been driving initiatives to create high barrier packaging that retains its barrier and shelf-appearance even after the package has travelled through the supply chain. To serve the varied needs of the flexible packaging market, Celplast Metallized Products offers several metallized films with tailored barrier properties.
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Commitment to Innovation pays off as Celplast Metallized Products New Top-coating Metallizer Begins Production
Celplast Metallized Products Limited installed the first of its kind in-line top-coater metallizer in the world earlier this year to produce protected high-barrier materials for the flexible packaging and converting industry. Initial commercial line barrier results of DURAMET® 48 g polyester have surpassed pilot line barrier values with oxygen of 0.033 cc/m2/day. and water vapor barrier of 0.062 g/m2/day.
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EU and Canada agree to set a date for the provisional application of the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement
The Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement marks a new chapter in the relationship between the EU and Canada. Both at EU level and in Canada, the necessary steps were taken to ratify the agreement. The agreement will now be provisionally applied and will enter definitively into force once the Parliaments in all Member States of the EU ratify the text according to their respective domestic constitutional requirements.
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In-Vacuum Flexo Top-Coating on Metallized Film: An Update on the State of the Art
More data has been generated to show the efficacy of Celplast’s patented single pass in-line metallizing and flexo top-coating technology. In-line metallizing and top-coating in the most stringent high barrier flexible packaging applications have the potential in retort and other high barrier structures for food contact.
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Revolutionary Top-coated Metallized Film
Celplast Metallized Products brings a lower cost, lower carbon footprint alternative to foil to the high barrier flexible packaging market with its revolutionary DURAMET® top-coated metallized PET film.
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Celplast Installs Large Scale Production of low-E facer for the Building Insulation Industry
REFLECT-MET is a low-E (0.05 emissivity), corrosion resistant, metallized polyester facer for use in reflective and radiant barrier building insulation, VIPs (vacuum insulation panels), clothing and protective packaging. Web widths available up to 98”.
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In-line Metallizing and Flexo Top-Coating
By applying a flexo coating immediately after the metallizing zone in a vacuum chamber, and then E-beam curing that coating all in one pass, the inherent barrier of that metallized layer is locked in, with a minimal number of coating defects.
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Celplast Announces Next-Generation Inline Top-coating Metallizer with Metacoat® Technology
Metacoated metallized films from Celplast’s pilot line have shown barrier values up to 10x greater than those of traditional metallized films, to be used in layer elimination, foil replacement and other high barrier applications.
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Novel Technology of Electron Beam Curing in Vacuum
Flexographic printing/coating method inside of the vacuum metallization chamber and optimizing coating chemistry for enhanced stability in vacuum.
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