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Annual Awards Competition

For more than 25 years, TLMI has conducted an Annual Awards Competition and competitive it is! The number of entries has grown each year since the competition

Eugene Singer Awards

The TLMI Eugene Singer Awards, given since 1986, honor companies for excellence in business management as measured and defined by an established set of

TLMI Scholarship Winners

TLMI awards ten scholarships each year: Six awards of $5,000 each are given to four-year students, and four awards of $1,000 are given to two-year students.

Conferences, Meetings, and More

TLMI holds two meetings each year exclusively for members that are designed to provide attendees with valuable information they can put into practice

What's New Products

Higher Output UV LED Lights Black Diamond 365 Series UV LED curing units reportedly provide a shorter single-peak 365nm UV light wavelength and higher

Experience Speaks: Don Earl

President of Overnight Labels Inc. Recommending | Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill Management Style | Laissez faire How did you get into the converting

The Flexo Process: Be Careful

Flexo process printing now is competitive in quality with other printing processes and can have advantages of cost and the ability to print a large number

News Clips

Elsner Engineering Works, Hanover, PA, is named the exclusive sales representative for Wipcor S.r.l., Novara, Italy, for North American and Mexican sales.

Pre-Drupa Event Focuses on Innovation

GENT, BELGIUM Duomedia's Drupa Discovery Tour, a gathering of 83 journalists from 26 countries, took place March 20-24. More than 100 publications were

Recycling Program Aimed at Customers

JANESVILLE, WI GOEX Corp., a manufacturer of printable custom plastic sheet, is combining two environmental concepts sustainability and recycling to keep

Offsetting C02 Emissions

DENVER, CO ShipGreen is a new company formed to enable online retailers to provide shoppers with the ability to calculate and offset the carbon emissions

Sniffing Out Odors

ROUND ROCK, TX When the Discovery Channel's Dirty Jobs program featured a segment on how to contain or neutralize the stench of dirty diapers, the star

Automation a Selling Point

SIMPSONVILLE, KY Neff Packaging Solutions recently added a six-color, 18,000-sph Heidelberg Speedmaster XL 105 press to its new 122,000-sq-ft plant in

Advocating Free Trade

MISSION VIEJO, CA China Paper Holdings (CPH), a sourcing paper company and a sub. of Global Sourcing Solutions, says protectionist policies stifle innovation

What's New Products

Self-Calibrate Knifeholder Setup The all-electronic e-Knifeholder is now in production. Self-calibration features reportedly eliminate guesswork in knifeholder

People

Tony Paolino is now VP of sales and marketing at Rollprint Packaging Products, Addison, IL. Sato America, Charlotte, NC, names Greg Simmons technical

Experience Speaks: Janet Steiner

President of Thoro Packaging Recommending | Good to Great by Jim Collins Personal Motto | If you don't make dustyou eat dust. How did you get into the

First Glance

A Treat for the Earth The owner of Askinosie Chocolate, Springfield, MO, has a passion for producing premium quality chocolate and a passion for the environment.

New Marking Process Is Patented

CHESHIRE, UK DataLase has been granted a patent for a new transparent pigment for application on clear films or substrates. The pigment undergoes a color

Riding the Technology Wave

The technology wave of development and/or acceptance doesn't always come from Europe to North America, although it often seems much does come from that

DuPont Patents Reach 600

WILMINGTON, DE DuPont Packaging Graphics recently achieved the registration milestone of 125 patent families comprising more than 600 patents and applications

Narrow Web & Label Reporter

Two-Sided Tape Offered LAKE VILLA, IL CH Hyde Co. announces the availability of Teflon (PTFE) tape with adhesive on both sides (thin to thick gauge).

European Ink Portfolio Is Announced

STUTTGART, GERMANY Flint Group's Packaging Inks Div. has completed a European project to identify the Best of 4 solutions for all standard application

Guiding Webs to Customer Satisfaction

KANSAS CITY, MO Tension Envelope Corp. manufactures more than 12 billion envelopes a year for customers around the world, so keeping quality high and

Technologies for Source Reduction

SCHAUMBURG, IL Pliant Engineered Films announces the Empower suite of technologies for source reduction in packaging. The portfolio features three introductory

The Odyssey Returns

CRYSTAL LAKE, IL, & TOPEKA, KS The International Assn. of Diecutting and Diemaking (IADD) and the Foil Stamping and Embossing Assn. (FSEA) report the

Rollers Make History

UNION GROVE, WI When Dan Cahalane came to American Roller in 2005, he thought rollers were a simple commodity. As he learned about the vast amount of

Elegance & Speed

Many of the industry's largest converters adhere to the principle of thinking globally but acting locally. But Israel-based Tadbik Group has taken that

Emerging Nations

Over the past 15 years, the world of flexible packaging in Western Europe has morphed from a booming, innovative industry to a stable, low-growth sector.

Drupa New Product Digest

Training Simulators Offered Press training products and services include sheet-fed simulators with new color control tools; packaging gravure simulators;

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