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Web Exclusive: Are Sleeves Ready for Narrow Web?
While the number of machines with sleeve technology is growing in label printing, many users still are hesitant about using them. ...
Sustainable Packaging for Specialty Meat
Sustainable packaging delivers environmental benefits along with deli-like freshness and convenience ...
Short-Run Labels: An Alternative View
Today's marketplace for label printers is full of suppliers that offer a bewildering choice of technology, consumables, tools, and production cultures...
Fast Access: To streamline and automate operations, Protect-all installs PECAS Vision ERP software from Radius Solutions
As a growing manufacturer of extrusion coating and adhesive lamination products, Protect-all needed to replace its outgrown information management system...
Web Exclusive: Cradles don't rock
Cleveland Plastic Films (CPF) was shipping rolls of film across North America using stacked plastic cradles, but sometimes the cradles would shift and open up. To solve the problem, CPF worked closely with engineers at Rollguard...
How To Choose the Best Adhesive System
Many companies put themselves at a competitive disadvantage by limiting adhesive systems choices based on performance stereotypes ...
Roll Winding Dynamics
Materials today often are more than they may seem at first glance; many are manufactured with non-conventional properties. Label and semi-glossed enamel stocks are engineered...
Making the Cut
Chinese Converter Ensures Quality
The largest cigarette package printer in China provides quality assurance for customers by installing AVT inspection systems....
The Case for Air Cylinder Standardization
In a round table discussion, the author talks with sleeve manufacturers about the advantages of design standards for air cylinders used for flexographic printing....
A Smarter Future for Labels
There are untapped opportunities available for converters that adopt smart label technology....
Automated Web Handling Reduces Costs
Germark finds automated web handling equipment from Martin Automatic boosts productivity while offering fast payback....
Going Thin
Thinner gauge materials impact both on operating costs and the environment. The difficulty with going thin is that problems such as wrinkling, air entrapment, and tension control, and various other problems typically associated with material profile perturbations, such as gauge band variations, can become magnified when processed on some types of slitter/rewinders and other converting machinery....
Paper Roll Handling: What’s Right For You?
With the potential to improve productivity, worker safety, and the bottom line dramatically, paper roll handling automation is making its way into many operations. A variety of material handling options can save companies that handle paper rolls significant time and money, prevent accidents on the factory floor, and improve product consistency and quality. Choosing from these options, or even choosing to automate at all, can be tricky....
A Look Ahead: Sustainability and Other Hot Topics
In a Q&A with John Norder, Rohm and Haas business manager in North America for Packaging and Converting, he shares his thoughts on subjects ranging from feedstock and supply chain issues to fostering innovation in the industry. ...
Slitter/Rewinder Cuts Production Time
To streamline production, J.R. Labels recently took delivery of an Omega SR 410 slitter/rewinder with rotary die-cutting supplied by A B Graphic Intl. Ltd. ...
Two’s Better than One
Atlantis Plastic adds second W&H extrusion line to continue its growth strategy in films....
Harder Than Chrome
Can you beat chrome for a roller surface covering? In some applications, hardcoats may offer the physical and chemical properties you need....
Q&A with Jeff Damour
As outgoing president of CEMA, the Converting Equipment Manufacturers Assn., Jeff Damour shares his thoughts about the state of the US converting industry today....
Automatic Roll Change
Digital Deliberations
Baker Self Adhesive Label Co. has invested in digital technology to expand its printing capabilities with an Omega Digicon HS converting line from AB Graphic Intl....
Print Quality Sealed!
MFM turns to Bell-Mark to improve flexographic printing on its line of weather-resistant materials....
From Foil to Film
Fleksotisk Logar has purchased a six-color GIDUE F-Combat film press, the first sold in Slovenia. The 280-mm-wide flexographic press is equipped with six UV lampheads with integral chill rollers for heat management and joins a range of five existing flexo printing presses at the company....
Blue-Chip Printing
Rapid growth for Aztec Labels has prompted the company to install a second Nilpeter FB-3300 narrow web press to increase capacity....
The Power of One
CCI increases operational efficiencies with VantagePoint solution....
