Applied Extrusion Technologies, Inc.

Taghleef Industries Inc.

James Kevin Gillie

In combination, a plastic label attached to an outer surface of a product by a pressure sensitive adhesive. The pressure sensitive adhesive is attached to an exposed surface of an inner surface layer of the label, and the product includes one or more materials capable of migrating through the label and providing visible stains therein. The inner surface layer of the label includes a hydroxyl functionalized polyether amine resin preventing the material exuded from the product from migrating through the label thickness to provide visible staining of said label. A single extruded film of the label or the core of a multilayer label including either high crystalline polypropylene homopolymer, with or without a hard resin, or a conventional polypropylene with a hard resin.

Stain-resistant label adhered to product including one or more label-staining materials therein

A printable, coated, biaxially oriented film is provided that includes a polypropylene base film having a first and a second side, and a urethane coating on the first side. The coating has been applied to the base film between a machine direction orientation and a transverse direction orientation of a two step tentering operation. A method for manufacturing the film is also provided which includes the steps of forming a base film of a substantially uniform film layer of polypropylene, uniaxially orienting the base film by machine direction stretching, applying a coating of urethane to a first side of the uniaxially oriented base film, and biaxially orienting the coated film by stretching the film transversely to the machine direction.

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Middletown, DE, United States of America

James Kevin Gillie