November 1, 2005
COVERSTORY
Pilot/Lab/Technical Facilities
Is there a problem with your process? Fix it! These technical facilities stand ready to help....
Testing Machines
Testing machine new products from: Beta Industries, Arrowhive Equipment, GretagMacbeth, Sensor Products, Testing Machines, Kernco Instruments, X-Rite, and Mocon....
EDITORIALCOLUMN
Winners Don't Stop Believing!
What brought the White Sox to the top is an interesting story that actually has application in our businesses. It’s widely known the Sox had no superstars—just hard working, team-oriented players (picked by general manager Ken Williams). The players actually followed manager Ozzie Guillen’s instructions when they stepped up to the plate-—even it meant a sacrifice. ...
CONVERTERCLIPS
First Glance
Innovative packaging from: Ampac Flexibles, Yupo, and IPG Imaging Professionals....
Converting Industry News
News from: News from: Utah Paper Box, Primir, FTA, Flexographic Trade School, Praxair Surface Technologies, SKF USA, Air Products Polymers, Julie Static Controls, Heidelberg, Flint Ink, GASC, H.A. Bruno, PMMI, Parkinson Technologies, and Esko-Graphics....
LEGALBRIEFS
Fuel Surcharges Hit Shippers
Given the extreme volatility in oil pricing, a fuel surcharge paradigm predicated on rolling average fuel prices that span a period of several weeks no longer may be an adequate formula for ensuring a given carrier can recapture a significant percentage of fuel costs....
PLCPROBE
What's Really On the Surface?
Substrate surfaces are prone to cause problems because of items that are impossible for the naked eye to see....
WEBLINES
Converting Rx for Bowed Rollers
At the top of my list of converting controlled substances: bowed rollers. Let’s read the “Directions for Use” fine print on the bowed roller bottle....
WHAT'SNEW
New Products
New products from: Brown Machine, Innovia Films, Pruftechnik Service, PBI-Dansensor America, Maxson Automatic Machinery, Graymills, Agfa, Ampac Flexibles, Stafford Mfg. Corp., HarperScientific, Michelman, Celplast Metallized Products, Carton Edge Systems, Bobst Group, and AccuWeb....
NARROWWEB&LABELREPORTER
Reporter Clips
Narrow web news from: FINAT, Tarsus Group, tesa tape, GRE Engineering, Texas Instruments, RIT, Tailored Solutions, HumanEyes3D, EMA, Inksure Technologies, and WS Packaging Group....
Narrow Web New Products
Narrow web new products from: Martin Automatic, Mohawk Paper Mills, Merobel, Jetrion, Imaging Technology Intl., SunJet, UV Process Supply, and Etirama....
Spellbound
TLMI honors spellbinding labels that captivate consumers....
SPECIALREPORT
Linerless: The Compromise for VDP Labels?
The difficult-to-match esthetics of self-adhesive labels, coupled with their clean and accurate application characteristics, nevertheless are balanced by slower application speeds, the high cost of the laminate, and finally, by the apparent process/packaging waste—the used release liner. Take away the release liner, it is argued, and you can get up to 50% more labels on each roll, which not only saves money but saves downtime for roll changes on the packaging line....
Siliconizing: Challenging the Status Quo
Optimized coating helps speed change the rules of the game....
Low-Cost Paper Applications
Thermally cured silicones are the largest group of silicones, dominating the market with a share of almost 90%. As their name implies, they are cured by heat and use an expensive noble metal catalyst, typically platinum. ...
FEATURESTORIES
A Quality Standard
During the past 12 years, Valdese Packaging & Label has worked hard to achieve steady annual growth, expanding from a small, family-run startup to a 50-employee, full-service operation. The North Carolina-based company believes a newly installed Mitsubishi Diamond 1000LS sheet-fed press is the key to a new round of growth. ...
TECHNICALREPORT
Measuring Force
Learn what adhesion is, how it is measured, what a test really measures relative to the true adhesion between two surfaces, how adhesion affects the performance of the final laminated or multilayer product, an ideal adhesion test between two materials, and what the common T-peel adhesion test measure....
PEOPLE&PLACES
People & Places
News from: Hammer Lithographic, ISO Poly Films, Kodak, Mario Cotta, and NPES....
thePLACE
A Communication from the PLACE Div. of TAPPI
Novel high performance collation shrink films for bundling and multipacks, the influence of small amounts of LDPE on surface roughness and resulting haze of LLDPE blown films, shape up your cast film extrusion process with a contour die, and new printing adhesion improvements using atmostpheric plasma glow discharge technology....
PRODUCTFOCUS
To Serve & Protect
Don't fret over your next barrier coatings purchase! The following is advice on how to successfully choose and utilize these protective properties....
