Rohm and Haas

PHILADELPHIA—A gathering of major equipment and materials companies that are leading development efforts for sustainable packaging for food and consumer products will take place in conjunction with Earth Day 2009 celebrations, Wednesday, April 22. Hosting the daylong converting demonstrations for North American packaging converters and product marketers are specialty materials company Rohm and Haas, along with Nordmeccanica NA, a manufacturer of coating and laminating equipment. Demonstrations will take place at Nordmeccanica’s Long Island facility.

The Flexible Packaging Association announced its 2009 Board of Directors. Directors are elected by FPA voting members through mail ballot. Directors are elected for a term of one year and assume their directorship at the FPA Annual Meeting.

Specialty materials company Rohm and Haas is advancing its efforts to solve sustainability challenges facing customers in food and consumer product packaging, most recently evidenced by the company’s participation at the 2009 Sustainable Package Design Workshop + Designer’s Resource Expo in Clearwater, Florida.

PHILADELPHIA—Specialty materials company Rohm and Haas announced that the recent “Innovation Takes Root” conference hosted by NatureWorks LLC., provided an ideal forum to explore innovative future applications for sustainable, corn-derived polylactic acid (PLA) and its alloys.

PHILADELPHIA—Specialty materials producer Rohm and Haas, in conjunction with equipment manufacturer Nordmeccanica, recently proved that the company’s new fast-cure MOR-FREETM L75-164 adhesive could easily achieve line speeds of as much as 1,200 feet-per-minute for difficult polyester-to-polyester laminations. Live demonstrations held at Nordmeccanica’s North America facilities left no doubt among many invited packaging converters that this solventless adhesive, coupled with Nordmeccanica’s Super Simplex Laminator, provides the exacting performance and stringent tension levels to laminate miles of film successfully. Nordmeccanica is the world’s largest manufacturer of coating and laminating equipment. Rohm and Haas was the first company to perfect solventless adhesives for laminating and high performance