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Article: Military 'training' benefits food film: high-performance material from Automated Packaging Systems is patterned after packaging for military machine parts.(Supplier Close-up: Company Capabilities)
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- Food & Drug Packaging
- Article date:
- March 1, 2007
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Military experience often is useful in civilian life. That goes for packaging as well as people.
The rigors of military applications have been tough proving grounds for many kinds of packaging materials. Now Automated Packaging Systems is offering a new kind of high-barrier film for food applications that is patterned after a product it developed for the Department of Defense.
The military product is MLT1 and MLT2 heat-sealable packaging films, developed for machine parts like bearings, seals and O-rings that are packed in grease. The grease-resistant property carries over to MLT's civilian cousins: CBAR and WBAR high-barrier packaging films.
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