Taghleef Industries Inc.

Applied Extrusion Technologies, Inc.

Bruce S Marks

A plurality of plastic sheets to be fed into a high speed printer for forming printed labels and similar articles and a stack of printed labels formed form the sheets. Each of the sheets or labels includes a core layer and opposed, upper and lower outer skin layers. The upper outer skin layer includes a polyolefin polymer as the predominant component, by weight, thereof and is capable of receiving printed indicia thereon. The core layer includes a polyolefin polymer as the predominant component, by weight, of the core layer; preferably a high crystallinity polypropylene homopolymer. The lower outer skin layer includes a polyolefin polymer as the predominant component by weight therein; the improvement wherein the lower outer skin layer includes a blend of organic and inorganic antiblocking agents or a blend of inorganic antiblocking agents; the blend including less than 10%, by weight, of the lower outer skin layer.

Film for sheet fed printing, sheets formed from such film and labels formed from such sheets

A multilayer, metallizable, white opaque film suitable for use in forming metallized plastic labels for bottles and other containers includes at least a internal core layer and opposed outer skin layers. One of the outer skin layers is a non-voided layer having a surface treated to receive a metal layer thereon and the opposed outer skin layer includes an amount of a void creating additive to provide sufficient porosity for the absorption of an aqueous cold glue adhesive of the type employed to adhere a label to a container. Preferably the core layer is free of void creating additives and the opposed outer skin layer for receiving the cold glue adhesive is oxidatively treated, e.g., corona treated, to improve receptivity for the cold glue adhesive.

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Glen Mills, PA, United States of America

Bruce S Marks