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Eco Fiction

Published: September 01, 2009, By By Susan Stansbury, Converting Influence
In industry, some of us are getting frustrated by the lofty pronouncements by marketers promoting their products

PTI Recycling Formed To Sell rPET System Globally

Published: August 01, 2009
Holland, Oh | PTI Recycling Systems has introduced globally a compact, modular system to produce food-grade, recycled polyethylene terephthalate (rPET)

Microwave Packaging Examined

Published: August 01, 2009
Milltown, Nj | The Packaging Group will host Microwave Pack 2009 on November 3-4, the first major conference on microwave packaging in over a decade,

Lighting the Way

Published: August 01, 2009
BradyGlo Eco-Friendly Photoluminescent Exit Signs from Brady Corp., Milwaukee, WI, are said to provide energy- and cost-saving solutions to emergency egress marking.

Charter Films Ups Coex Capacity

Published: July 01, 2009
Superior, WI | Charter Films' new Windmoeller & Hoelscher coextrusion line, installed December 2008, is now fully operational.

News Clips - July 2009

Published: July 01, 2009
Printing Industries of America, Pittsburgh, PA, has revitalized its website at www.printing.org. GEW Inc., North Royalton, OH, donated a seven-lamp ECP

ISO Poly Adds Two W&H Film Lines

Published: July 01, 2009
Lincoln, RI | ISO Poly Films, a Sigma Plastics Group co. located in Gray Court, SC, has added two Varex blown film extrusion lines from Windmoeller &

PTI To Produce Small Quantity Prototypes

Published: July 01, 2009
Holland, OH | Plastic Technologies Inc. (PTI) has the ability to produce small quantity extrusion prototypes for multilayer cast film and sheet products

Double-Duty Packages

Published: July 01, 2009, By By Yolanda Simonsis, Associate Publisher/Editor
Innovation and sustainability are the key features of package designs winning recognition from DuPont in its annual Packaging Awards competition.

Recycling Program for Tyvek Launched

Published: July 01, 2009
Wilmington, DE | DuPont Nonwovens and Waste Management, Houston, TX, have launched a national mail-in recycling program to capture envelopes and other

Paper Calculator Is Updated

Published: July 01, 2009
Washington, DC | The Environmental Defense Fund has updated the underlying data of the Paper Calculator, available at www.papercalculator.org. This interactive

Digital Detection

Published: July 01, 2009, By By Roland Meylan, AlpVision SA

Online digital authentication uses a direct link between a brand product examiner and a secured computer that automatically performs a “genuine or fake” verdict. This provides an instant warning if fakes are uncovered, enabling brand owners to react rapidly to combat defrauders.

Forensic Packaging

Published: July 01, 2009, By By Tom Kerchiss, RK Print Coat Instruments
Counterfeiting is far from victimless; it's also nothing new. What is new is its scope and diversity, which is creating parallel markets in many product categories.

Lean & Green

Published: June 01, 2009, By By Claudia Hine, Managing Editor
As your customers look to improve their sustainability efforts, new substrates on the market offer recyclability and weight reduction with no loss of performance.

Phoenix To Build rPET Line

Published: April 01, 2009
Phoenix Technologies announces the construction of its first commercial recycled polyethylene terephthalate (rPET) line for the production of the company's LNOc brand food-grade resin.

New Film Line Has Many Features

Published: April 01, 2009
Nelmar Security Packaging Systems has ordered a second three-layer Varex blown film extrusion line from Windmoeller & Hoelscher Corp.

Toray Sees Results Of Green Project

Published: April 01, 2009
NORTH KINGSTOWN, RI Toray Plastics (America) Inc. reports that environmental projects launched in 2004, which are part of a comprehensive sustainability

KBA, FLEXcon Partner on Substrates

Published: April 01, 2009
KBA North America has collaborated with pressure-sensitive film maker FLEXcon Co., Spencer, MA, to premiere three unique substrates for the KBA Rapida 106 41-in. sheetfed press.

WHAT'S NEW PRODUCTS: April 2009

Published: April 01, 2009
Proofing Paper Is Company offers Validation SG3 premium inkjet contract proofing paper designed specifically for SWOP-grade 3 proofing. Paper base is

ISO Poly Films & Sigma Plastics Announce Strategic Partnership

Published: March 16, 2009
ISO Poly Films Inc. and Sigma Plastics Group have entered a strategic partnership.

Plastic Film Study

Published: March 01, 2009
A new study from The Freedonia Group concludes that demand for plastic film in the US is projected to grow 2.6% annually to more than 16 billion lbs in 2012

Locking in Paper Supply

Published: March 01, 2009
Mondi has entered into a long-term supply contract for sack paper with the Semen Gresik Group, said to be the largest cement producer in Indonesia.

PVC Keeps Tanks Fit

Published: March 01, 2009
A Fab-Seal Industries PVC liner system kept deteriorating water tanks from leaking.

Bloomer Plastics Converts Custom Films

Published: March 01, 2009, By By Edward Boyle, Contributing Editor
Manufacturer of custom converted and embossed films that converters, Bloomer Plastics supplies more than 32 million lb of film to customers as far away as Europe and Asia

Film Line Saves Time, Money

Published: February 01, 2009
Irvine, CA | B. Braun, a global supplier of healthcare products, has improved the economies of film processing with the installation of a new Davis-Standard

Extrusion Line Adds Efficiencies

Published: February 01, 2009
Cincinnati, Oh | Ampac Flexibles has added a Windmoeller & Hoelscher extrusion system in its Auburn, WA, facility. Dan McFarland, president of Ampac's

Green Is Global

Published: February 01, 2009, By By Corey M. Reardon, AWA Alexander Watson Assoc.

While functional excellence remains a given, buyers and converters of packaging and labeling materials are influenced strongly by other market drivers

NPE to Highlight Emerging Technology

Published: January 01, 2009
Washington, DC | A multi-exhibitor Emerging Technologies Pavilion will debut at NPE2009, the international plastics exposition scheduled for June 22-26

Biodegradable Plastics to Gain, Says Study

Published: January 01, 2009
Cleveland, OH | Demand for biodegradable plastic in the US is expected to rise more than 15%/yr to 720 million lbs in 2012, valued at $845 million. This

New Film Line Easy To Manage

Published: December 01, 2008
Coldwater, OH | Accutech Films recently purchased a seven-layer line from Gloucester Engineering Co. The line adds to Accutech's coextrusion and specialty

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