Our newly acquired specialty films business has extended the Bemis product reach into shrink film packaging for fresh red meat, cheese, poultry and industrial markets. With operations in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Brazil, the shrink film business expands the Bemis manufacturing footprint worldwide and supplements our existing high barrier product lines manufactured and marketed in those countries. This patented shrink film technology was previously unavailable to Bemis and complements our material science expertise, creating new opportunities for innovation in shrink as well as other high barrier film products.

Bemis has also acquired Kanzaki’s direct thermal pressure sensitive materials product line in the United States. This expands the breadth of the roll label product line as well as its customer base. Direct thermal pressure sensitive products, one of the fastest growing market segments in the roll label market, are used in variable printing applications such as deli weighing machines, luggage tags, shipping labels and medical laboratory environments. These tailored labels are printed on demand without the need of an ink cartridge. A printed label is created when heat and pressure release the ink that has been embedded into the paper. Beginning in 2001, our pressure sensitive materials operations will use existing Bemis facilities to apply the adhesive material to the specialized paper and ship it to customers in the United States.

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