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FLEXPO - Houston 2012

FLEXPO-Houston 2012
March 29-30
Four Seasons Hotel
Houston, Texas USA

Date: 
March 29, 2012 - 8:00am - March 30, 2012 - 5:00pm

Packaging

Packaging is the science, art and technology of enclosing or protecting products for distribution, storage, sale, and use. Packaging also refers to the process of design, evaluation, and production of packages. Packaging can be described as a coordinated system of preparing goods for transport, warehousing, logistics, sale, and end use. Packaging contains, protects, preserves, transports, informs, and sells.  In many countries it is fully integrated into government, business, institutional, industrial, and personal use.

Recent US Patents

2/15/2011
7,886,665
Method of manufacturing of low-odor packaging materials
Biro and Rooney of Sun Chemical, New Jersey,  produced a low-odor, printed packaging material.  In this process, the printed ink is activated by exposure to actinic radiation, such as UV light, before an actinic-radiation curable coating is applied thereto.  The exposure of the printed ink to UV light reduces residual solvent content and odor of the packaging material and improves the friction resistance and gloss of the printed images. Furthermore, the exposure of the printed packaging material to UV light provides an additional benefit of reducing microbial count, thereby extending a shelf-life of the packaged substance, such as food and drugs.  (RDC 8/23/2011)

Review Articles

Nanotechnology in plastic food-contact materials
(3719–3738) Journal of Applied Polymer  Science 122 #6 (2011)
Hatzigrigoriou and Papaspyrides of the National Technical University of Athens, Greece review the application of nanotechnology in the polymer food-packaging. Emphasis is placed on the benefits of polymer nanocomposite materials in terms of their improved mechanical and processability properties but also in terms of more packaging-oriented attributes, such as enhanced barrier properties.  In addition, nanotechnology is expected to introduce some novel and beneficial characteristics to plastic packaging materials. These characteristics include the induction of antimicrobial properties, oxygen scavenging, enzyme immobilization, and sensing of food conditions. Besides these novel properties, the need to explore the potential health impact of nanoparticles is also discussed, with a focus on the possibility of nanocomponent migration into the packaged foodstuff.  (RDC 9/7/2011)

 

Styrene Isoprene Styrene (SIS) Nanofibers

Styrene Isoprene Styrene (SIS) Nanofibers can be formed by electrospinning. (RDC 10/1/2009)

Recent US Patents

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Recent Journal Articles

To get to the abstract or article, copy the citation and paste it into favorite search engine (ex. Google). The date is the date the entry was found. 8/14/2009 Studies on the electrospun submicron fibers of SIS and its mechanical properties (p 1580-1586) Journal of Applied Polymer Science 114 #3 (2009)

Review Articles

To get to the abstract and the article, open up your internet search engine and copy the title to the search box. Once on the Journal's website, find the year and issue. Then scroll to the article. The date is the date of the entry made on this page.

Editor's Notes

As the literature is reviewed, and items of interest concerning this topic are found. These may be added in an abbreviated form with the reference. Readers and contributors are invited to add their own notes. Contributors may add them directly and other readers can simply send their notes to the editor, Roger Corneliussen at rcorneliussen@4spe.org. He may edit and add them to this page at his discretion.

 

Applications

Application or design is putting polymers to work. These applications are the payoff for the science and technology behind polymers. An application is the use of polymers for a practical purpose other than discovery and learning. (RDC 3/25/2009)

 

Flexible Packaging

Flexible Packaging

Divisions are technical groups that are organized around a specific process or application in the plastics industry. Division participants can attend technical conferences, network with colleagues, publish and present technical information and research, and stay current with news and information through Division newsletters and conference proceedings.


 

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