January 1, 2008
Articles
Seeing is believing
Seeing is Believing Promising enhanced visibility and comfort in everyday work attire, Series 5500 Comfort Trim is a 3M Scotchlite Reflective Material...
Be a Mentor a New Year's Resolution
To be a mentor which in my opinion is synonymous with being a teacher is frequently taken lightly. Just how important mentoring is hit home for me recently...
Get a Grip: Driving Your Web
In my October 2007 column, In Search of Tension Isolation, I myth-busted the belief that a high traction driven roller can completely isolate one tension...
Process Management: Opacity & White Ink
White ink is used extensively in printing plastic films for packaging. The role of the white print is to totally or partially block the package ingredients...
Converting Industry News
Dri-Tec Mfg. Group moves its corporate office and manufacturing facility to the SMT machine and tools building in Green Bay, WI. Though still independent,...
Adding an Agent in Mexico
LAS VEGAS, NV At last fall's CPP Expo, ARC Intl. confirmed the signing of Flexi-Vel as exclusive agent for all wide web products throughout Mexico. The...
Enhancing Education
FORT MILL, SC The Assn. of Industrial Metallizers, Coaters and Laminators (AIMCAL) has issued additional information on the scholarship fund it created...
Foodservice Disposables Growth Led by Packaging
CLEVELAND, OH Foodservice disposables demand in the US is projected to increase 3.8%/yr to $16.6 billion in 2011. This is the conclusion of a new study...
IP, Memphis Aid Recycling
MEMPHIS, TN International Paper is partnering with the city of Memphis, Friends of City Beautiful, and FCR of Tennessee in the All Aboard campaign to...
Harper Tour Is a Success
CHARLOTTE, NC Harper GraphicSolutions has wrapped its latest Harper Flexographic Solutions Tour, reporting it was the most successful and best-attended...
Register System Makes New Press Even Better
ONEONTA, NY Apple Converting was happy with the superior printing and higher-speed coating it experienced after the recent installation of a Cerutti nine-color,...
PMMI Adds New Category
ARLINGTON, VA The Packaging Machinery Mfrs. Inst. (PMMI), has a new membership category for materials and containers suppliers. Explains Chuck Yuska,...
Automation Fair Returns
CHICAGO, IL Rockwell Automation welcomed more than 13,000 attendees from 65 countries to the 2007 Automation Fair, held November 14-15 at the new McCormick...
SMS Sells BGE
DSSELDORF, GERMANY SMS has sold off the last remaining company in the plastics technology sector, Battenfeld Gloucester Engineering (BGE),Gloucester,...
Drupa Sessions Will Point the Way
CHICAGO, IL The popular concept of certainly will be featured at drupa 2008, and not just in the machinery exhibited. The event, to be held May 29-June...
EB Will Cure Lacquers
VERSAILLES, CT Amgraph Packaging has added an EZCure-1 EB system from Energy Sciences to its new Rotomec MW80 gravure press. The EB system will be used...
Treater Agreement Reported
HARTLAND, WI Pillar Technologies and Empire Treater Rolls, Fishers, NY, have signed an agreement that provides Pillar worldwide distribution rights for...
Expanding Source Reduction
SUPERIOR, WI Charter Films reports success with source reduction efforts for its converting customers and says it plans to continue to expand on this...
Sun to Support Pantone
PARSIPPANY, NJ Sun Chemical reports its worldwide sales force and infrastructure is ready to support Sun's customers as the new Pantone Goe color language...
New Green Company
PORTAGE, MI Packaging and Technology Integrated Solutions (PTIS) reports the launch of a new affiliate company, Global Sustainability Solutions Inc. (GSSI),...
Digital Collaboration Expands
ROCHESTER, NY Pitman Co., Totowa, NJ, will offer Kodak Nexpress Digital Production Color Presses and Kodak Digimaster digital production systems to its...
Sheeters Add Capacity
THATOOM, THAILAND Thai pulp and paper manufacturer Advance Agro has added to its capacity in cut-size paper converting with three lines from E.C.H. Will...
Seeing Anilox Rolls Clearly
MILWAUKEE, WI Anilox Roll manufacturer Stork Cellramic, a div. of Stork Materials Technology, has purchased and implemented new roll inspection equipment....
PEOPLE
Ken Sweeney is the new plant manager at the West Chester, PA, manufacturing facility of Sartomer Co., Exton, PA. Joseph Tremper joins Uteco North America,...
Narrow Web & Label Reporter
RotoMetrics Celebrates 50 Years as Industry Leader ST. LOUIS, MO In 1957 Richard R. Rosemann, the founder of Roto-Die, began designing and manufacturing...
Narrow Web & Label Reporter: New Products
Inspect Numbers & More The LVS 7000 will inspect sequential numbers, barcodes (1D), and DataMatrix codes (2D) to ISO standards and match to a database...
Brand Booster
Andrews Decal Co. Inc., a Chicago-based converter of pressure-sensitive labels, proves that even a small company can be a major player in one of America's...
Hot Type
More than 1,100 exhibitors are expected to greet 24,000 attendees at the 30th anniversary of Graphics of the Americas, scheduled for February 27 March...
Credit Crunch
As many industry participants have observed, the packaging industry has been reshaped over the past two years by numerous private equity-backed merger...
Picking Up the Pace
As press manufacturers continue to introduce presses that can run faster in theory but not necessarily in practice it falls to the manufacturers of register...
Parallel Protocol
Roll alignment is a requirement for every converting process that produces some sort of web, film, or coating. When a machine is first installed, each...
Products
Controller Has 60 Settings The MP2000 single-loop viscosity controller has 60 settings to accommodate solvent- or water-based products and level control....
Experience Speaks: Lyle Reigel
President & CEO of US Paper Converters Management Style | Open-door policy Personal Motto | Honesty and hard work How did you get into the converting...
