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Case Study: Purified Methanol Plant Offers Opportunity for Pulp Mills, Paper360º September/October 2023

A New Vision for Industry Leader IP, Paper360º September/October 2023

The Conversion of Corra Gator-Boardy, Paper360º September/October 2023

Protecting Flexible Packaging Rolls with Custom Steel Rack, Paper360º September/October 2023

ABB’s New R&D Center: Perfect Location for the Transformation of the Pulp and Paper Industry, Paper360º September/October 2023

ASPI News, Paper360º September/October 2023

SetPoint: Be Fascinated, Tissue360º Spring/Summer 2023

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Tissue Industry News, Tissue360º Spring/Summer 2023

Tissue Industry News, Tissue360º Spring/Summer 2023

Building Information Modeling for Projects in the Tissue Industry, Tissue360º Spring/Summer 2023

Review of coating cracking and barrier integrity on paperboard substrates, TAPPI Journal November 2022

ABSTRACT: Barrier packaging formats are major growth areas for the pulp and paper industry. It is technically challenging to maintain barrier properties during converting and end-use applications. Improved manufacturing capabilities and coating formulation knowledge will help maintain barrier integrity and enable growth of barrier products in challenging applications. These improvements will accelerate product development and commercialization, and allow faster response to product performance issues such as cracking. The literature on coating cracking provides knowledge mostly on the effects of coating formulations and to a lesser extent on substrate effects. Despite a large number of publications dedicated to coating failures, the approach to improve coating cracking remains empirical, and the transferability between studies and to real life applications has not been well established. Model development that successfully predicts commercial performance is in its infancy. However, some of these simplified models do a fairly good job predicting experimental data. The current work reviews the state of understanding as regards coating and barrier cracking and highlights the need for more research on cracking and barrier integrity.