Manufacturing flexible packaging : materials, machinery, and techniques

✍ Scribed by Thomas Dunn

• Publisher: William Andrew Publishing, , Elsevier Inc
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 275
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Efficiently and profitably delivering quality flexible packaging to the marketplace requires designing and manufacturing products that are both "fit-to-use" and "fit-to-make". The engineering function in a flexible packaging enterprise must attend to these dual design challenges.

Flexible Packaging discusses the basic processes used to manufacture flexible packaging products, including rotogravure printing, flexographic printing, adhesive lamination, extrusion lamination/coating; and finishing/slitting. These processes are then related to the machines used to practice them, emphasising the basics of machines’ control systems , and options to minimize wasted time and materials between production jobs.

Raw materials are also considered, including the three basic forms: Rollstock (paper, foil, plastic films); Resin; and Wets (inks, varnishes, primers). Guidance is provided on both material selection, and on adding value through enhancement or modification of the materials’ physical features.

A ‘measures’ section covers both primary material features - such as tensile, elongation, modulus and elastic and plastic regions - and secondary quality characteristics such as seal and bond strengths, coefficient of friction, oxygen barrier and moisture vapour barrier.

• Helps engineers improve existing raw material selection and manufacturing processes for manufacturing functional flexible packaging materials.
• Covers all aspects of delivering high value packaging to the customer – from the raw materials, to the methods of processing them, the machines used to do it, and the measures required to gauge the characteristics of the product.
• Helps engineers to minimize waste and unproductive time in production.

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Front-matter, Pages i,iii
Copyright, Page iv
Introduction, Pages xiii-xvi
1 - Basics of Web Processes, Pages 1-12
2 - Rotogravure Printing, Pages 13-25
3 - Flexographic Printing, Pages 27-37
4 - Adhesive Lamination, Pages 39-47
5 - Extrusion Lamination and Coating, Pages 49-59
6 - Finishing and Slitting, Pages 61-69
7 - In-Line Processes, Pages 71-75
8 - OEE Effectiveness, Pages 77-85
9 - Efficiency and Cost Accounting, Pages 87-101
10 - Basics of Control Systems, Pages 103-110
11 - Rotogravure Presses, Pages 111-116
12 - Flexographic Presses, Pages 117-122
13 - Adhesive Laminators, Pages 123-126
14 - Flexible Packaging Extrusion Coating/Laminating Line, Pages 127-131
15 - Slitters, Pages 133-135
16 - Preventative Maintenance versus Available Production Time, Pages 137-141
17 - Setup/Cleanup versus Scheduled Production Time, Pages 143-147
18 - Saleable Product versus Product Produced, Pages 149-154
19 - Paper, Pages 155-160
20 - Foil, Pages 161-165
21 - Unoriented Plastic Films, Pages 167-175
22 - Oriented Plastic Films, Pages 177-185
23 - Bulk Polyolefin Resins, Pages 187-196
24 - Specialty Sealant and Adhesive Resins and Additives, Pages 197-205
25 - Barrier Resins, Pages 207-217
26 - Inks, Pages 219-225
27 - Overprint Varnishes and Coatings, Pages 227-232
28 - Adhesives, Pages 233-238
29 - Primers, Pages 239-243
30 - Conditioning, Pages 245-249
31 - Intrinsic Material Properties, Pages 251-258
32 - Secondary Quality Characteristics, Pages 259-276
Index, Pages 277-288