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Cartons and Packs |
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The use of Polypropylene
(Polyprop or PP) as a packaging medium has been developing over
the last few years.
The traditional method of manufacture using Polypropylene has
been injection moulding, but now there are a variety of finishes
available in sheets for conventional cartons and envelope style
packs. These finishes provide an attractive exterior finish,
but slightly obscure the clarity of appearance of the contents.
We are able to supply packs which are assembled using physical
locking methods, either D locks or postal tabs, and these will
be supplied cut and creased for you to assemble as required.
As the gluing of PP can only be done on high tech machinery
suited to large batch quantities, we are not able to offer either
4 corner glued boxes or cylinders in PP.
At the moment all Polypropylene designs are bespoke, as the
material cannot be run on tooling cutters designed for thinner
PVC. |
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Polypropylene does not yet
possess the clarity of PVC, nor the stiffness, consequently
it requires a thicker film to be used.
For example where we would use a 240 micron film for a standard
carton in PVC, we would have to use a 500 micron Polypropylene
film to achieve the same characteristics.
Because of this thicker film use, it has, so far, been used
more for larger packs where the feel of thickness gives a
greater feeling and perception of strength and quality.
Polypropylene packaging material can be foil block, or print
decorated in the same manner as PVC; it can also be recycled
just as easily. |
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Other Products:
Packaging Cartons - Transparent PVC |
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