Our prime films family is engineered to stand up, stand out.

Falling into three major product categories — Fully Conformable, Semi Conformable and Rigid Film — our Prime Films offer a range of performance benefits like:

THE BOTTOM LINE:

Products with Prime Film labels generate greater shelf appeal with lower total applied cost, lower production input cost, lower waste and lower risk of lost run time.

PRIME FILM SELECTION

Facestocks

Choosing the Right Film Facestock

It’s just not as simple as white or clear. When choosing a film facestock for a pressure sensitive label application, every aspect of the labeling process can impact performance. Understanding the facestock material, thickness and conformability is one way today’s converters make sure their jobs run smoothly.

Film Material: Is it PP, PE or MDO?

These choices can significantly impact label aesthetics as well as performance. Over time, certain films have evolved as “the film of choice” for particular performance requirements.

For example:

• Polypropylene (PP) is one of the most rigid film materials and is frequently used in beer and beverage applications where high clarity is needed.
• Polyethylene (PE) is another common film type often used in applications like tubes where conformability or squeeze is a performance requirement.
• Machine Direction Oriented (MDO) is a blend of PE/PP combined with Avery Dennison’s purpose-built machine direction oriented manufacturing to create semi conformable and fully conformable products that offer a balance of the properties found in PP and PE films.

Film Stretch

When films are stretched, or “oriented,” during manufacturing, their polymer chains are aligned and different performance characteristics are created.

• Unoriented films (unstretched) — like PE — are soft and very conformable, but can be challenging when converted and dispensed.
• Machine direction oriented (MDO) films offer a balance of properties, with excellent conformability, convertibility and dispensability. All of our fully and semi conformable films are MDO films.
• Biaxially oriented films — such as BOPP — are stretched in both the machine direction and the cross direction, making them quite rigid. They offer excellent convertibility and dispensability. The orientation of the film helps determine its conformability, convertability and dispensing performance. Film Face stock: Polymer Orientatio

Rigid Films

Clear BOPP | White BOPP | Metallized BOPP

Our rigid films offer high tensile strength in both directions for excellent converting, and a stiffness and rigidity that allow thinner labels to be dispensed. But that’s not all:   Solid white BOPP offers undeniable shelf impact, with label graphics that almost pop off the package Cavitated white BOPP delivers high opacity and a pearlescent look Metalized BOPP gives labels a bright, lustrous look Clear BOPP is a hands-down favorite for the no-label look Often used to decorate PET and glass containers That’s an impressive performance range from the most economical of our prime films.   Typical Applications Rigid films can be quite versatile for a wide range of packaging solutions. The most common BOPP applications are for PET and glass containers used for beverages, beers and spirits, food and HPC.

Converting Advantages High converting speed and resistance to liner ruptures Reduced adhesive “bleed” and enhanced stripping performance with ClearCut™ Adhesive Technology Excellent stiffness in dispensing When used with ClearCut, excellent water whitening resistance, good repositionability and wet-out

AVY Insight:

7% of brand owners/packaging buyers will only source labels from vendors with digital presses today.* Avery Dennison offers a comprehensive portfolio of products designed for inkjet receptivity and compatibility.

*TLMI North American Digital Label Study 2015

Conformable Films

Global MDO | High Performance Primax^® and FasClear^®

Delivering a package that gets the attention needed in today’s crowded retail spaces has always involved a delicate balancing act between innovative shapes, surfaces and substrates, cost and label decoration quality. Our conformable films deliver the best of all worlds – sharp, clear label appearance across a wide range of shapes and surfaces with the productivity benefits that come from high quality printing and high-speed dispensing. But that’s not all. For instance:

• Our Global MDO films are excellent for semi-squeezable containers — where continued flexing during end use is expected.
• Engineered for a variety of packaging types, High Performance Primax^® and FasClear^® can be used with full-squeeze applications, irregular bottle shapes and larger sizes, as well as containers that expand and contract, and more.

Global MDO. One Film That Delivers It All: Performance and Sustainability.

Similar to our rigid films, Global MDO delivers strength and stability with clear shelf appeal. Its improved conformability significantly reduces darts and wrinkles in high speed converting and application. Global MDO uses less material, producing 40% less solid waste and requiring 37% less energy to manufacture when compared to thicker films.

High Performance Primax^® and FasClear^®: Expanding the MDO franchise

The newest additions to our portfolio, High Performance Primax and FasClear utilize the clearest, most conformable facestock to maximize the decoration space on a variety of complex shapes. High Performance Primax and FasClear feature a scuff resistant surface that allows for improved aesthetics for deeper images that pop on the container. This is the first fully conformable film that leverages ClearCut™ Adhesive Technology for thinner constructions, less adhesive ooze and improved clarity and wet-out performance.

Prime Film Adhesives

The ClearCut Choice for Every Prime Film Construction   The ClearCut™ adhesive platform helps converters and brand owners realize the full production potential of thinner labeling materials—fewer changeovers on press, more labels on a roll, improved die cutting, dispensing and elimination of web breaks.   In home and personal care, food and beer and beverage, the need for shelf impact goes hand-in-hand with the need for efficient production. ClearCut Adhesive Technology answers both needs.   Excellent water-whitening resistance and wet-out make ClearCut a natural for applications demanding a no-label look. The adhesive gives a 20% haze improvement when used with Global MDO (compared to Global Co-Ex) for dependable, high clarity results. Dispensing can be achieved at up to several hundred containers a minute, and with the lower levels of adhesive bleed offered by ClearCut – up to 50% less than S692N – it results in reduced downtime. Designed to improve overall operational efficiency and usage of

The bottom line:

Your product gets higher attention with lower applied cost, less waste and faster time to market. 

AVY Insight:

Consumers look at clear-on-clear labels for 20% longer than any other label material on the shelf

Why PET Liners?

Driven by an increased demand for clear-on-clear labels, use of film-based release liners is growing more quickly than glassine and other paper liners. Leading the way from 1.5 Mil to .92 Mil, Avery Dennison is actively working to make PET liners a cost-effective alternative in a growing variety of applications.

Why Thinner

The benefits of thinner liners are undeniable. A typical 2.0 Mil Clear BOPP film construction on a .92-gauge film liner is 60% thinner than that same construction on a 1.5 mil PET liner. That translates directly into:

• 15-20% more labels per roll
• Reduced transportation costs
• Less inventory space
• Increased line speeds
• Fewer changeovers

Better Die Cuts

Avery Dennison film liners deliver unbeatable die-cutting quality – this results in reliable and accurate die cuts, along with consistent and cost-effective dispensing at the applicator.

Better Moisture Resistance

Film-on-film products offer improved adhesive coat qualities vs. paper liners for an ultra clear face and adhesive constructions that require maximum clarity and moisture resistance.

• Excellent on-container wet-out and adhesion performance
• Less curl with PET liner vs. paper liner results in better dispensing at peel plate
• Film liner not as reactive to extreme humidity ranges
• Higher adhesion levels for quick stick dispensing

Avery Dennison tests its liners for tensile strength and tear. This helps us develop thinner and more economical film based release PET liners.