26-442: Innovia can refer to: Innovia Films , a British plastic-film manufacturer Alstom Innovia , formerly Adtranz Innovia and Bombardier Innovia, a family of people-mover systems Terres Inovia Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Innovia . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
52-545: A nitrocellulose lacquer that, when applied to Cellophane, made it moisture proof. Following the introduction of moisture-proof Cellophane in 1927, the material's sales tripled between 1928 and 1930, and in 1938, Cellophane accounted for 10% of DuPont's sales and 25% of its profits. Cellophane played a crucial role in developing the self-service retailing of fresh meat. Cellophane visibility helped customers know quality of meat before buying. Cellophane also worked to consumers' disadvantage when manufacturers learned to manipulate
78-457: A BOPP films producer in Plock, Poland who have both Tenter and Cast polypropylene production. They were also rebranded Innovia Films. The current production sites are located in: Cellophane Cellophane is a thin, transparent sheet made of regenerated cellulose . Its low permeability to air , oils , greases , bacteria , and liquid water makes it useful for food packaging . Cellophane
104-419: A certain type of battery , as dialysis tubing (Visking tubing), and as a release agent in the manufacture of fibreglass and rubber products. Cellophane is the most popular material for manufacturing cigar packaging; its permeability to water vapor makes cellophane a good product for this application as cigars must be allowed to "breathe" while wrapped and in storage. Cellophane sales have dwindled since
130-656: A new purpose built Research & Development Centre in Wigton, UK in 2002. In February 2013, the company bought the 50% share of Securency International it did not already own from the Reserve Bank of Australia using cash reserves . Securency and Note Printing Australia had faced a scandal involving bribery of officials to win currency printing contracts. In October 2004, a UK consortium led by Dennis Matthewman and financed by private equity company Candover Investments , bought UCB's polypropylene and cellulose films business. As
156-578: A restaurant's tablecloth, he decided to create a cloth that could repel liquids rather than absorb them. His first step was to spray a waterproof coating onto fabric, and he opted to try viscose . The resultant coated fabric was far too stiff, but the diaphanous film coating could be separated from the backing cloth easily and in one undamaged piece. Seeing the possibilities of this new material on its own, Brandenberger soon abandoned his original idea. It took ten years for Brandenberger to perfect his film. His chief improvement over earlier work with such films
182-603: A resurgence in recent times due to its being biosourced, compostable, and biodegradable. Its sustainability record is clouded by its energy-intensive manufacturing process and the potential negative impact of some of the chemicals used, but significant progress in recent years has been made by leading manufacturers in reducing their environmental footprint. When placed between two plane polarizing filters, cellophane produces prismatic colours due to its birefringent nature. Artists have used this effect to create stained glass-like creations that are kinetic and interactive. Cellophane
208-469: Is a generic term in some countries, while in other countries it is a registered trademark . Cellulose from wood , cotton , hemp , or other sources is dissolved in alkali and carbon disulfide to make a solution called viscose , which is then extruded through a slit into a bath of dilute sulfuric acid and sodium sulfate to reconvert the viscose into cellulose. The film is then passed through several more baths, one to remove sulfur , one to bleach
234-726: Is an international manufacturer and supplier of biaxially-oriented polypropylene (BOPP) films for speciality packaging, labelling, tobacco overwrap and industrial products. It was once known as UCB Films. The UK plant is based in Wigton , Cumbria, the company is exclusively focused on speciality films, including biaxially oriented polypropylene (BOPP), used in many wrapping and labelling applications and for banknote production in Canada, Australia, Britain and other countries. Total annual film capacity worldwide currently stands at more than 218,000 tonnes. In 1926, Société Industrielle de la Cellophane (SIDAC)
260-503: Is biodegradable, but highly toxic carbon disulfide is used in most cellophane production. Viscose factories vary widely in the amount of CS 2 they expose their workers to , and most give no information about their quantitative safety limits or how well they keep to them. In the UK and in many other countries, "Cellophane" is a registered trademark and the property of Futamura Chemical UK Ltd , based in Wigton , Cumbria , United Kingdom. In
286-541: Is highly permeable to water vapour , but may be coated with nitrocellulose lacquer to prevent this. Cellophane is also used in transparent pressure-sensitive tape , tubing, and many other similar applications. Cellophane is compostable and biodegradable, and can be obtained from biomaterials. The original production process uses carbon disulfide (CS 2 ), which has been found to be highly toxic to workers. The newer lyocell process can be used to produce cellulose film without involving carbon disulfide. "Cellophane"
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#1732854871907312-418: The 1960s, due to alternative packaging options. The polluting effects of carbon disulfide and other by-products of the process used to make viscose may have also contributed to its falling behind lower cost petrochemical-based films such as biaxially-oriented polyethylene terephthalate (BoPET) and biaxially oriented polypropylene (BOPP) in the 1980s and 1990s. However, as of 2017, it has made something of
338-511: The BOPP production partnership with ICI ended, and UCB Films assumed full ownership of Sidex Ltd. There followed a period of investment in the Wigton plant, raising capacity from 10,000 to 35,000 tonnes pa. In the 1990s, around €135m was invested in the plant, including a second £10m coater plant in 1997, while a third was added in 2001 with a new bubble line to bring capacity to 15,000 tonnes per annum. In 1996, UCB Films acquired British Cellophane Ltd and
364-522: The British Sidac name and, four years later entered into a joint venture with ICI to manufacture BOPP on the Wigton site. A new £3m factory was built to be operated by this new company called Sidex Ltd. In 1973 British Sidac became a wholly owned subsidiary of the UCB Group of Belgium . In 1982, the British Sidac plant at St Helens was closed and in 1987, UCB Films acquired La Cellophane Espanola. In 1987
390-619: The UK. This new venture, British Cellophane Ltd (BCL) began production at a major new plant in Bridgwater , Somerset in 1937. In 1942, La Cellophane Espanola was founded in Burgos , Spain In 1961 ICI developed Biaxially Oriented Polypropylene, which, because of its clarity, gloss, sparkle, crispness and grease resistance, resembled cellulose film rather than polyethylene to which it is chemically related. In 1963 British Rayophane and British Sidac merged under
416-655: The United States in 1912 for their Whitman's Sampler . They remained the largest user of imported cellophane from France until nearly 1924, when DuPont built the first cellophane manufacturing plant in the US. Cellophane saw limited sales in the US at first since while it was waterproof, it was not moisture proof—it held or repelled water but was permeable to water vapor. This meant that it was unsuited to packaging products that required moisture proofing. DuPont hired chemist William Hale Charch (1898–1958), who spent three years developing
442-500: The appearance of a product by controlling oxygen and moisture levels to prevent discolouration of food. It was considered such a useful invention that cellophane was listed alongside other modern marvels in the 1934 song " You're the Top " (from Anything Goes ). The British textile company Courtaulds ' viscose technology had allowed it to diversify in 1930 into viscose film, which it named "Viscacelle". However, competition with Cellophane
468-681: The company for £680 million. Their shrinkfilms production site based in Germany was rebranded Innovia Shrinkfilms. CCL Industries Inc acquired the USA operations of Treofan Americas in July 2018. They were rebranded Innovia Films. The acquisition expanded the company's footprint by providing a manufacturing facility in Mexico. Their manufacturing process is the Tenter system. In 2020 CCL Industries acquired Flexpol S.p.a.
494-510: The film, and one to add softening materials such as glycerin to prevent the film from becoming brittle. A similar process, using a hole (a spinneret ) instead of a slit, is used to make a fibre called rayon . Chemically, cellophane, rayon, and cellulose are polymers of glucose ; they differ structurally rather than chemically. Cellophane was invented by Swiss chemist Jacques E. Brandenberger while employed by Blanchisserie et Teinturerie de Thaon . In 1900, inspired by seeing wine spill on
520-411: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Innovia&oldid=1186060437 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Innovia Films Innovia Films , a division of CCL Industries ,
546-542: The market for cellulose films was contracting due to substitution by oil based polymers, Innovia decided to close one of its plants to reduce costs and improve efficiency. As a consequence, the Bridgwater factory closed in the summer of 2005. Innovia Films completed the sale of its cellulose films business on 30 June 2016 to Futamura Chemical Co. Ltd, a Japanese company. In December 2016, the Canadian firm CCL Industries bought
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#1732854871907572-712: The trade name Cellophane . In 1997, UCB Films bought the ICI Propafilm business in Ghent , and it also bought the Tecumseh , Kansas plant from US cellulose film producer Flexel Inc, to become one of the world's largest producers of cellulose film. In 2000 it bought the Mexican company Cydsa, closing its plant in Burgos . In 1999 a new BOPP manufacturing plant was opened in Melbourne, Australia. Mr Tony Blair MP, Rt. Hon. Prime Minister opened
598-409: The viscose solution), and in 1957 at Barrow-in-Furness , Cumbria. The latter two plants were closed in the 1990s. Cellulose film has been manufactured continuously since the mid-1930s and is still used today. As well as packaging a variety of food items, there are also industrial applications, such as a base for such self-adhesive tapes as Sellotape and Scotch Tape , a semi-permeable membrane in
624-598: Was adding glycerin to soften the material. By 1912 he had constructed a machine to manufacture the film, which he had named Cellophane, from the words cellulose and diaphane ("transparent"). Cellophane was patented that year. The following year, the company Comptoir des Textiles Artificiels (CTA) bought the Thaon firm's interest in Cellophane and established Brandenberger in a new company, La Cellophane SA. Whitman's candy company initiated use of cellophane for candy wrapping in
650-565: Was an obstacle to its sales, and in 1935 it founded British Cellophane Limited (BCL) in conjunction with the Cellophane Company and its French parent company CTA. A major production facility was constructed at Bridgwater , Somerset , England, from 1935 to 1937, employing 3,000 workers. BCL subsequently constructed plants in Cornwall, Ontario (BCL Canada), as an adjunct to the existing Courtaulds viscose rayon plant there (from which it bought
676-492: Was founded with a factory in Ghent , Belgium. Six years later SIDAC formed a company in the UK to distribute its Ghent-produced film. This later became British Sidac Ltd, which opened its first production plant at St Helens in 1934. Also in 1934, British New Wrap Co Ltd was formed in Wigton, and production of cellulose film began at the site which had previously been set up to produce Rayon . In 1935, Courtaulds and La Cellophane SA joined forces to produce and sell Cellophane in
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