Talk:Cellophane

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Cling film

Most "cling film" (i.e. plastic food wrap) I've ever seen has said it's made of PVC, not cellulose...? Tjwood 18:23, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

You are right (although there are non-PVC versions, which are still not made of cellulose). I changed the article. --Heron 21:04, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I heard there is currently only one supplier of cellophane in the entire world. Does anyone know if that is true? And if it is, would it be relevant enough for the article? Qaddosh 12:02, 30 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Punctuation

With one noticeable exception, every punctuation mark in this article is either a comma or an exclamation point. --67.171.78.104 00:00, 20 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Invention

On the British Cellophane page it states that "The process for manufacturing cellulose film from viscose was discovered by three English chemists, Charles Frederick Cross, Edward John Bevan and Clayton Beadle in 1898."

On this page it states "Cellophane was invented in 1908 by Jacques E. Brandenberger, a Swiss textiles engineer."

Seems to need a bit of clarification.

lol

From the page: "It is also used in the making of bendy rulers, although it is not common."

Strange line to end the article —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.200.106.168 (talk) 22:42, 10 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Seriously, I was all like, wuuuut? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.122.63.142 (talk) 20:02, 6 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

First paragraph says "...low permeability to...water..." whilst the second-to-last paragraph implies a high permeability to "moisture". Oh-kay... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.151.32.239 (talk) 01:35, 18 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

According to the article, it has a relatively low permeability to liquid water, but not water vapors (moisture). Materialscientist (talk) 01:42, 18 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Genericised Trademark in the UK

I disagree with this statement: "The word cellophane has become genericized in the US ... However, in the UK and in many other countries it is still a registered trademark and the property of Innovia Films Ltd."

The implication here is that "Cellophane" is not a generic term in the UK, when it most definitely is. It may still be a registered trademark, but it is widely used to refer to any type of film wrapping, which I thought was the very definition of a genericized trademark. The reference cited is 27 years old. 86.132.58.253 (talk) 11:58, 27 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hope you don't mind my joining this topic, because my observation of some 35 years' experience is that "cellophane" has not become genericised [sic] in the other sense as implied further down in the same section. Some merchandisers don't know the difference - an issue more to do with "dumbing down" than with genericisation [!] in my view - but the example shown (ref 7) is of a polypropylene converter trying to claim properties he's not entitled to with a cutely misleading term implying cellophane, but even he is not saying polypropylene is cellophane. The totally generic "plastic" (film, wrap, and the like) is even less pertinent to the issue of cellophane's loss of identity: for those uninformed folks using "plastic" seems to have no specific meaning at all. Not to sharpen the point too much, reference 7 should be removed and the attending comment taken out as irrelevant to the topic heading as well as being free advertising for the converter.William Hoffman (talk) 02:18, 7 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Image

Are you sure that the printed bag is cellophane? It's much more likely to be PET film.

82.33.164.165 (talk) 11:39, 12 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Is cellophane a plastic?

Is cellophane a plastic? The article should clarify this point. How can an ordinary person test a piece to see if it is really cellophane, instead of some other ordinary clear plastic? Real cellophane seems to have very poor resistance to tearing; the article should discuss this aspect. -96.237.4.73 (talk) 15:16, 2 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

biodegradable

The article claims:

"cellophane itself is 100% biodegradable"

What is the source/proof of this? Under what conditions does it biodegrade? How long does it take? -96.237.4.73 (talk) 15:24, 2 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Scotch Tape

The article implies that cellophane is the current base material of Scotch Tape. This may have been true far in the past, but it seems very dubious that it would be true in modern times. The Scotch Tape article does not seem to agree with this article. -96.237.4.73 (talk) 15:27, 2 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]