An overview about Biaxially Oriented Polypropylene (BOPP)

According to Wikipedia, “When polypropylene film is extruded and stretched in both the machine direction and across machine direction it is called biaxially oriented polypropylene. Biaxial orientation increases strength and clarity. BOPP is widely used as a packaging material for packaging products such as snack foods, fresh produce and confectionery. It is easy to coat, print and laminate to give the required appearance and properties for use as a packaging material. This process is normally called converting. It is normally produced in large rolls which are split on slitting machines into smaller rolls for use on packaging machines.”

These BOPP films are very beneficial for a number of reasons, but to enjoy the benefits you need to ensure that you buy the products from one of the best BOPP film manufacturers. To help you understand better and know about these films, here we’ve a few benefits that you can derive from them.

The benefits:

• •    Using these Bopp films won’t affect your environment as they are environment friendly.
• •    They can be handled easily and are light in weight.
• •    These films are effective in protecting the products from damage to great extent and therefore are easily accepted all across the world.
• •    No de-lamination is required as they keep the product dry.
• •    They are ultra-violet resistant and have good clarity, provided you buy them from well-known BOPP film manufacturers.

Thus, these films are widely used in different industries for sealing and packaging of products. Also, they are used as adhesive tapes too.

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What are the primary benefits of lamination?

Lamination, a process that encloses a printed piece in between two pieces of clear plastic films is important to keep your documents safe and give them a professional look too. This transparent film adds rigidity and strength to the pieces and protects them from getting damaged. The process has become easier with the coming of HP Indigo Pack Ready lamination technology.

Let’s go through some primary benefits that you can derive from lamination.

• The appearance of the printing is enhanced as lamination brightens and deepens the ink colours.
• It increases the durability of the print materials and thus they’re able to withstand frequent uses without any damage.
• It adds protection against stains and pills, fingerprints, marks and smudges, dirt, grease, oil and other contaminants.
• It gives your printed pieces a better and more professional look by brightening the ink colours. This helps in holding people’s attention for longer.
• It provides an impression of better quality and importance by adding stiffness and strength.
• Since lamination is transparent, it never blemishes or impairs the printing in anyway
• It increases the longevity of print materials and thereby saves your money on reprinting. Also, the cost of lamination is very reasonable.

Thus, lamination offers a number of benefits and this is the reason that the plastic films are so much in demand. Moreover, the HP Indigo Pack Ready has made the whole process easier and it can be completed within limited time frame.

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Reduced Time to Market with Fast Curing Laminates

The time taken to reach the market with your products is a key deciding factor in how successful you are going to be in getting over the competition. If you are fast enough with putting your products out in the market for consumers to try their hands on then you get what is called ‘the first to market’ advantage. Sometimes that is very important in selling more than the rest. It is not that hard to understand. If your products are the only ones in the market then buyers have no option but to buy your products. But doing that is easier said than done. Indigo Pack Ready is a technology that will allow manufacturers to package their products fast and push them forward into the sales network. 

How does Indigo Pack Ready help product manufacturers?
 

As a manufacturer, you come across many hurdles in reaching the market fast and consistently. When you have the right tools, you have a much better chance at beating others at the game. Here are three special edges that Indigo Pack Ready gives product manufacturers.

Find New Ways To Create Unique Labels
 

Indigo Presses is a part of HP’s new technology which frees the creative ones from limitations of what earlier label printers had. This technology sells itself with the promise of giving you the power to create things that are unique in the industry. That way you can come up with new creative ideas for your labels, and if the ideas don’t work out you can fail fast and learn faster. Once you are okay with the ideas it can be replicated with high frequency for real world applications.

Print Labels Fast, In High Quality
 

Usually, speed comes with the trade-off of quality. If you get results fast, there is a good chance that somewhere the process will have cut corners with the quality. Not with Indigo Pack Ready technology. The final result you get with this tech is clear, sharp and high contrast colours. And best of all, you can play with an enormously wide gamut of colours in the Pantone range. 

With Indigo Pack Ready, create special effects on your labels with speciality inks and laminate them right away for dazzling marker-reach speeds.

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What is HP Indigo Pack Ready’s contribution to the digital market?

A new lamination development has been unveiled by HP Indigo that takes zero cure time and thus enables flexible packaging converters, saving time. This HP Indigo Pack Ready has marked a remarkable change in the market delivery time in all printed flexible packaging.
The lamination process plays a vital role in the flexible film production to ensure the integrity of the printed flexible pouches and bags. However, the drawback was that the cure time was too lengthy. With this pack ready technology, this lengthy cure time has been changed to zero cure time.

The packaging lamination technology, no matter whether it is solvent-free or solvent-based, requires coating. This in return requires curing time which may vary depending on the application. For some the time may be a few days, while for some others it may be over a week. Again for some high-end applications like for the retort pouches it may take up to ten days. This lengthy curing time prevented the utilization of speed the digital printing offers.
 

With the coming of HP Indigo Pack Ready lamination technology, everything has become easier within limited time frame. Also, it offers a high laminate bonding performance. The operators can learn this process easily.

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What are polyethylene films used for?

Polyethylene film can be defined as a thin continuous polymeric material. Just like plastic bottles, they can be made up of different resins, each of them designed to fulfill a specific purpose. It is most commonly used in packaging but also has other applications. The main applications of polyethylene film are as follows:

• Packaging of Food

From candies to wines, plastic films are used for packaging of many food items. The breads in the bakeries, the fruits and vegetables store bags, the refrigerated food wrap, and many other eatables we buy from the grocery are packed with polyethylene films. 

• Packaging of Non-food Items

Apart from food, plastic films are also used in the packaging of shipping items. It is used to cover sacks and cartons for delivery, making of envelopes, bubble wraps, covering of racks, counter bags, and much more.

• Different Packaging

Polyethylene packing is also used for shrink wrapping and stretch wrapping. Shrink wrapping involves packing the object loosely and heating it with machine in the sense that the plastic seems to have taken the shape of the object. On the other hand, stretch wrap is a strong and extremely flexible film that is stretched to take the shape of the object while packing.

• Non-Packaging Use

Polyethylene film manufacturers also sell the product for other purposes than packing. This includes health & medical films, construction films, and agricultural films. It is used in the manufacture of T Shirt, garbage bags, can liners, disposable diapers, household wrap, and much more.

Polyethylene film manufacturers produce different types of films ranging in resins, thickness, etc. to meet different requirements. Flexibility is the only common thing in all types of plastic films.

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