An impact label for use as a baseball training aid includes a deformable layer and an incompressible layer which may include aluminum foil and paper, respectively. The incompressible layer includes voids distributed in a regular pattern. A first side of the incompressible layer is adhered to the deformable layer. A second side of the incompressible layer is formed around the barrel of a baseball bat, e.g., via an adhesive on a base layer. Areas of the deformable layer proximate to the voids and within an area of contact with a baseball during a swing of the bat are adapted to deform in response to contact with the baseball, thereby creating dimples that are indicative of the area of contact and force of contact.

The heat-shrinkable film includes a block copolymer comprising a vinyl aromatic hydrocarbon-derived structural unit and a conjugated diene-derived structural unit as a main component.

Self-laminating label assemblies, self-laminating labels and methods for laminating label facestocks are described herein. The self-laminating label assemblies may include a label support liner and one or more self-laminating label(s) releasably affixed to the label support liner. Each self-laminating label may include a label facestock releasably affixed to the label support liner and a laminating facestock for at least partially laminating the label facestock. The laminating facestock may be releasably affixable to the label support liner, directly or indirectly, and may be provided between a non-laminating configuration in which at least part of the aminating facestock is releasably affixed to the label support liner for holding the laminating facestock thereon or thereabout, and a aminating configuration in which the laminating facestock is at least partially affixed to, and laminates, the label facestock.

The present invention relates to a multilayer, coextruded polyester film including at least one outer layer (A) and a base layer (B), in which the at least one outer layer (A) includes, to an extent of at least 60 wt %, a polyester or a copolyester formed from units derived from aliphatic dicarboxylic acids and diols, wherein the units derived from dicarboxylic acids are selected from one or more dicarboxylic acids from the group of succinic acid, adipic acid, suberic acid, azelaic acid and sebacic acid, and the units derived from diols are selected from one or more diols from the group of ethylene glycol, 1,3-propanediol, 1,4-butanediol and neopentyl glycol.

The present invention further relates to a process for producing the film according to the invention, to the use thereof and to a process for recycling the polyester film according to the invention.

A self-laminating rotating cable marker label is constructed of a transparent film having a first adhesive area, an adhesive-free smooth area, and a second adhesive area. A print-on area forms one side of the transparent film, the print-on area adapted to receive indicia identifying the cable about which the marker label is applied. A perforation extends across the transparent film providing a line of separation of the transparent film. When wrapped around a cable, the second adhesive area overlies the print-on area such that the cable identifying indicia is visible through the transparent second adhesive area. As the transparent film is wrapped around the cable, the first adhesive area adheres to the cable. The remainder of the transparent film is rotated, breaking the perforation, whereby the smooth area of the film in contact with the cable provides smooth rotation of the label around the cable.

A printed linerless face laminate includes a release layer including a release agent, a second layer including a thermoplastic polymer, a second adhesive layer, a first layer including a thermoplastic polymer or fiber-based material, and a first adhesive layer including a pressure sensitive adhesive, wherein the print is on one or more printable surface(s) between the first layer and the second layer. A method for producing the printed linerless face laminate is also described.

The present invention relates to a multilayer, coextruded polyester film that includes at least one outer layer (A) and a base layer (B), in which the at least one outer layer (A) includes to an extent of at least 60 wt % of a copolyester that includes units derived from dicarboxylic acids and diols, in which the units derived from dicarboxylic acids include at least 65 mol % of units derived from terephthalic acid and at least 5 mol % of units derived from 5-sulfo-isophthalic acid and the units derived from diols include at least 90 mol % of units derived from ethylene glycol.

The present invention further relates to a process for producing the film according to the invention, to the use thereof and to a process for recycling the polyester film according to the invention.

Proposed are a label manufacturing apparatus and a label manufactured by the same label manufacturing apparatus. The label manufacturing apparatus includes a pressure-sensitive adhesive applying unit applying a pressure-sensitive adhesive onto a label fabric, a pressure-sensitive adhesive drying unit located behind the pressure-sensitive adhesive applying unit and drying the pressure-sensitive adhesive applied onto the label fabric, and a release paper attaching unit provided behind the pressure-sensitive adhesive drying unit and attaching a release paper onto the rear surface of the label fabric, wherein the release paper attaching unit is configured such that among a pair of rollers allowing the label fabric and the release paper to pass therebetween to be laminated, a roller guiding the label fabric has a concave/convex portion formed on a surface thereof so that a groove is formed on the laminated label fabric which has passed through the release paper attaching unit.

The present invention provides a heat shrinkable multilayer film that can prevent wrinkles or loosening after attachment when the film is attached to a container as a heat shrinkable label for dry heat shrinking, and a heat shrinkable label including the heat shrinkable multilayer film as a base film. Provided is a heat shrinkable multilayer film including: front and back layers each containing a polyester resin; and an interlayer containing a polystyrene resin, wherein the heat shrinkable multilayer film has a dimensional change in a TD represented by an equation (1) of −55 to −1000 μm as measured by thermomechanical analysis (TMA) in which the temperature of the heat shrinkable multilayer film under a load of 0.10 N is increased from 30° C. to 60° C. at a temperature increase rate of 5° C./min and then cooled from 60° C. to 10° C. at a temperature decrease rate of 5° C./min, the equation (1) being: Dimensional change=dimension in TD at 20° C. −dimension in TD at 60° C. (1).

The invention relates to a shrink face film and a shrink label comprising said face film. According to an embodiment the shrink face film includes a first skin layer and a second skin layer comprising propylene terpolymer(s) between 1 and 99 wt. %, and a core layer comprising random copolymer(s) of propylene or propylene terpolymer(s), and a modifier, which is at least one of the following: olefinic plastomer, olefinic elastomer and ethylene-octene block copolymer. The invention further relates to a method for providing a shrink face film and a method for labelling of an item with a shrink label comprising said face film.