PET films and Soft Touch coatings for flexible packaging converters.

FlexPack brings together Filmquest, which coats, metalizes, and slits Questar brand PET film, and Rayven, which developed its ultra soft matte film for flexible packaging in 2017. FlexPack runs plants in Bolingbrook and St. Charles, Illinois, and Owatonna, Minnesota.

Film slit into strips and wound onto rolls on a slitter

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Applications

Soft Touch packaging

A premium package has to feel different in the hand and still run on a standard laminating line.

Soft Touch Matte and Ultra-Soft Touch Matte films, laminated over the print.

The most common base is 48 gauge PET film (12 micron). The film can be wet laminated onto existing print or reverse printed before lamination, within a set range of coefficient of friction and haze. FlexPack coats and slits Soft Touch Matte at its St. Charles, Illinois, plant, a site of more than 47,000 square feet that is SQF certified for food packaging.

Materials: Rayven Soft Touch Matte and Ultra-Soft Touch Matte; Questar Soft Touch CP267 and CP367

See Soft Touch film on rayven.com

Three matte stand-up pouches in charcoal, sand, and green, each with a clear window onto the beans or grains inside.

Food and pet food packaging

Food packaging needs barrier, seal, and print surfaces that hold from the filling line to the shelf.

Coated Questar PET films with the barrier and treatment the structure calls for.

Filmquest's CP series runs 36 to 142 gauge for packaging that needs higher oxygen and water barrier. Options include one or two side corona treatment, chemical treatment, PVdC coating, Soft Touch Matte coating, lidding stock, metalizing, and AlOx. Uses include bread and pasta bags, snack and nutrition bars, pet food, and boil-in bag packaging. Rayven's Owatonna plant is SQF certified for the manufacture of food packaging films and substrates.

Materials: Questar CP series, coated PET, metalized PET, lidding film

See flexible packaging films on petfilm.com

A black tray of pasta with clear lidding film peeled back at one corner, and a pouch of coffee beans behind it.

Imaging, electrical, and industrial films

Graphics, electrical, and industrial uses need PET in an exact gauge and width, slit to a tight tolerance.

Questar PET film from 25 to 1400 gauge, slit to width, cut to sheets, or fabricated into components.

Filmquest slits rolls up to 88 inches wide and down to 3/4 inch, to a standard tolerance of plus or minus 1/16 inch, on 3 inch or 6 inch cores. Metalized grades run from fully opaque to a low level tint.

Materials: Questar PET film, metalized PET, coated PET

See PET film applications on petfilm.com

Clear film peeling back from a printed green circuit sheet.

Product family

Typical use

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PET film

Slit rolls, sheets, and components

See PET film on petfilm.com

Metalized PET

Reflective to low tint packaging and graphics

See metalized PET on petfilm.com

Coated PET

Barrier, heat seal, anti-fog, and anti-static films

See coated PET on petfilm.com

Soft Touch Matte films

Premium tactile packaging

See Soft Touch on rayven.com

Release liners

Silicone and non-silicone coated liners

See release liners on rayven.com

Filmquest coats webs from 33 to 65 inches wide and tests film in its own lab. Rayven runs thermal laminating, silicone, and gravure coating lines, with slitters that cut down to 1/4 inch, and holds ISO 9001:2015 registration for specialty coatings on various substrates.