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.
| ISBN: | 9780323264365 |
| Publication date: | 5th September 2014 |
| Author: | Thomas Flexpacknology LLC Dunn |
| Publisher: | William Andrew Publishing |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 304 pages |
| Series: | Plastics Design Library |
| Genres: |
Other manufacturing technologies Plastics and polymers Materials science Insurance and actuarial studies Risk assessment Manufacturing industries Production and quality control management |