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Steam Sterilizable Packaging Films with Excellent Barrier Properties

Fraunhofer FEP, Applied Materials developed a process for depositing an ultra-thin aluminum oxide layer.

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Editor, Ink World Magazine

The Fraunhofer Institute for Organic Electronics, Electron Beam and Plasma Technology FEP and Applied Materials, Inc. is exhibiting technologies for the production of transparent and hot steam sterilizable packaging films at AIMCAL 2016 in Dresden, Germany.   Packaging films are ubiquitous, yet their importance and sophistication are often overlooked by consumers. In order to ensure the quality of the purchased product inside, packaging films are optimized for the respective packaged goods, an...

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