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Orientation and Oxygen Barrier for Oriented Polypropylene

Eldridge M Mount
Posted by Eldridge M Mount on March 9, 2010

A few posts ago I had some information on the impact of orientation on moisture barrier and I thought I would fill out the information by looking at the impact on oxygen barrier as well.  In my files I have a paper on the subject and the reference is: A. K. Taraiya, G. A. J. Orchard and I. M. Ward, “Diffusion of Oxygen through Uniaxially and Biaxially Drawn Polypropylene”, J. Ap ...... Read More

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Can 7- & 5-layer CPP be replaced by cavitated OPP?

Eldridge M Mount
Posted by Eldridge M Mount on February 28, 2010

Q: What are the applications of seven- and five-layer CPP, and can it be replaced by opaque BOPP or double-bubble PP or white TQPP? A: Well the applications can be many so it is hard to answer that directly.  I have a client who uses white films for heat sealing into a pouch.  The white layer is for light barrier and it has two clear outer layers, one sealant and one for printing.  ...... Read More

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Industries: Flexible Packaging

Is it possible to metallize PE or PS film?

Eldridge M Mount
Posted by Eldridge M Mount on February 27, 2010

The short answer is yes, and there’s a great deal of metallized PE used in packaging and for mulch.  While I have not seen a great deal of metallized-polystyrene films, it should be easy to do, as long as the metallizer can handle the film without damage.  In general, oriented-PS films tend to be thick as they are used for thermoforming so the cost would be relatively high as the ...... Read More

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Industries: Flexible Packaging

Polymer orientation processing resource

Eldridge M Mount
Posted by Eldridge M Mount on February 25, 2010

A few posts back we were discussing how to find a book focused on film orientation.  While searching for sources it was determined that the book is out of print, and I confirmed with one of the editors that there were no more copies that he was aware of. In the mean time there is a new book in the same “Progress in Polymer Processing Series” published by Hanser.  I have pur ...... Read More

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Industries: Flexible Packaging

Plasma pretreatment

Eldridge M Mount
Posted by Eldridge M Mount on February 25, 2010

Plasma pretreatment is an existing technology that is experiencing an emergence into a new metallizing market segment defined by packaging films. It’s apparent from the suppliers of metallizing equipment and plasma-treater manufacturers that the technology has been in use for a long time but in markets focused on sputtered films where the added equipment expense was not much of an issue due ...... Read More

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Vacuum technology & coating article on PET films

Eldridge M Mount
Posted by Eldridge M Mount on February 24, 2010

There is an interesting article on polyester films you might be interested in reading. It’s titled “Optimizing polyester films for flexible electronic applications” and can be found in the February edition of Vacuum Technology and Coating.  If you do not subscribe to the magazine, you can find the article on the Website: www.vactechmag.com Go there and click on the digita ...... Read More

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Follow up to a response to "Impact of orientation on moisture barrier"

Eldridge M Mount
Posted by Eldridge M Mount on February 16, 2010

Ryan Breese has commented on his work with orientation and moisture barrier and I would like to thank him for his additional information and thoughtful comment. He comments: In my experiments, the orientation function obtained from birefringence correlated well with WVTR data for oriented PE. I saw little/no correlation with orientation functions calculated with other techniques, such as SAXS, XRD ...... Read More

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Seven-layer CPP problem

Eldridge M Mount
Posted by Eldridge M Mount on February 15, 2010

I received the following problem statement by e-mail and thought you might review my answer and make suggestions as well. Problem:  We have a seven-layer CPP line, but in the case of white film we used only five extruders instead of seven, the seven layers are produced by the plug which is inserted in the feed block just before the die.  So in this case the layer (cor ...... Read More

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Industries: Flexible Packaging

Aroma barrier of metallized films

Eldridge M Mount
Posted by Eldridge M Mount on February 13, 2010

In an earlier post, I stated that the addition of a vacuum-deposited layer of aluminum onto an OPP film does not guarantee an improvement in flavor and aroma (chemical) barrier.  I first discussed this in an SME barrier conference in 1997 and later the expanded work was published in Mount III, Eldridge, M., Wagner, John R., “Aroma, Oxygen and Moisture Barrier Behavior of Coated and Vac ...... Read More

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Industries: Flexible Packaging

Impact of the adhesive (type) used and its affect on OTR, WVTR and chemical barrier

Eldridge M Mount
Posted by Eldridge M Mount on February 12, 2010

Cloud has also asked a question about the impact of the adhesive (type) used and does it also affect OTR, WVTR and chemical barrier? I assume this is in relation to a metallized lamination to be used in packaging.  In general the answer to the question is yes; when you add a material to a lamination you are adding its base property to the lamination, and if it is superior in some barrier aspe ...... Read More

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Finding "Film Processing" by Kanai and Campbell

Eldridge M Mount
Posted by Eldridge M Mount on February 11, 2010

Rakatin wants to know where can he buy the book, Film Processing. A quick search of the Hanser/Gardner site (https://www.hanserpublications.com/index.php) does not show the book, so it may be out of print.  I did find a copy for sale on Google Books, so you can check the link at: http://books.google.com/books?id=cFOaQgAACAAJ&dq=film+processing&cd=1 Good hunting but move fast… ...... Read More

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Industries: Flexible Packaging

Source of barrier properties of a vacuum-deposited aluminum layer

Eldridge M Mount
Posted by Eldridge M Mount on February 11, 2010

Cloud comments that he was surprised aluminum does not guarantee addition of chemical barrier. As from what he knows, aluminum is the “best barrier.” However, his understanding may be the difference between a foil and a vacuum-deposited aluminum layer. This perception about the addition of aluminum is a little bit how the metallization of OPP films was first considered. Metallized po ...... Read More

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