The Armadillo of Package Printing

"In the '90s, things changed in the synthetic industry, moving from a niche toward a commodity market. Packaging film manufacturers decided to become involved in the synthetic market and began to throw topcoatings onto products and call them all synthetics. So, synthetics are really anything but PET and vinyl," said David Hoag, national converting sales manager for Arjobex (Charlotte, N.C.). "True synthetics are mostly all polypropylenes (PP) and polyethylenes (PE). PP and PE are the two resins that categorize 95 percent of synthetic materials."