Hole Punching

5 Steps to Green

(Magazine)

August 31, 2007, Organizations that make environmental responsibility a top priority are realizing that not only are the results great for the environment, they’re also good for business. Lower energy costs, less waste, ...

News Clips

(Magazine)

August 31, 2007, ... be a way to include the whole “value” of the package in regard to keeping product safe from theft and tampering, e.g., blisterpacks. As of now, this is not part of the equation. While the scorecard ...

A Smarter Future for Labels

(Tapes)

August 31, 2007, ... too quickly. The potential of such labels has enormous implications for the whole food chain. Much fresh food today only has a few days’ pack or shelf life after it leaves the packing and labeling station. ...

White Sale

(Magazine)

July 31, 2007, With Modernistic’s acquisition of a Durst flatbed UV inkjet digital printer, POP customers are seeing graphics that pack a punch. Digital Printing Minnesota-based Modernistic now can provide the true ...

NARROW WEB & LABEL REPORTER

(Magazine)

July 31, 2007, ... as a whole.…” Adds Ross Hoge, PAT VP of technology, “PAT is very excited about the strong commitment from PacSys for this new technology and the two available products, the Varstar sheet-fed coater ...

REPORTER CLIPS

(Magazine)

July 31, 2007, ... Mike McGuinness says, “[We] recognized the potential of this new method of UV coating as a way to increase profitability in the printing industry as a whole.…” Adds Ross Hoge, PAT VP of technology, ...

Track & Trace

(Magazine)

July 31, 2007, ... a coil), which is then connected to the silicon chip, and the whole is supported by a film substrate. The UHF inlay design is somewhat different. Two of its components (antenna and silicon chip strap) ...

Polymag Tek Inc Receives CE Certification and Enters the European Market

(Archive)

July 21, 2007, Polymag Tek, designer and manufacturer of contact web cleaning equipment, has received CE certification for its Narrow Web Cleaner (NWC) family of products. PRESS RELEASE Polymag Tek, designer and manufacturer ...

Gidue Installs Press in India

(Archive)

July 21, 2007, ... at Sel-Jegat, Sivakasi, India, marks the third installation in India since the beginning of 2007. This is the sixth press in the whole of India. Equipped with delam/relam, lamination, cold foil on rail, ...

A Scrappy Competitor

(Magazine)

March 31, 2007, ... us to cater to some very small customers,” notes Shaw, “but it also allows us to participate in business with some very large customers. We run the whole gamut. We're not a huge company in terms of overall ...

John Solomon Joins Natural Foods Panel

(Archive)

March 03, 2007, John Solomon, global manager, specialty foods, for Multisorb Technologies, will be joining a panel discussing "What is Natural?" at the 2007 Healthy Baking Seminar March 8. PRESS RELEASE ANAHEIM, CA—John ...

Lasting Impression

(Magazine)

February 28, 2007, ... down over the course of a few hours, sometimes a whole day, with all the client’s plant supervisors, including line operators, to determine how HP can make it easier to do business with them. It can be ...

East Beats West

(Flexpack)

February 28, 2007, ... greater degree—locate production where it is cheapest, and flexible packaging suppliers will have to follow suit. Eventually, this will see more of the leading packagers supplying whole regions from a ...

Product Protection

(Technical Reports)

February 28, 2007, ... are common with manufacturing, cartoning, shelf stocking, and consumer handling in the retail environment, they can develop pinholes and become permeable. They also can develop permanent creases and wrinkles, ...

What's Ne

(Magazine)

February 28, 2007, ... System measures both residual headspace oxygen and absolute package leak rate. Produces an absolute leak number based on the application of Poiseuille’s law, which yields a total “hole” diameter leak size ...

Covering All the Bases

(Archive)

February 13, 2007, ... can and do start with minor tears in dock seal fabric,” Bartos said. “In addition, it’s easy to mistake small burn holes for tears. The bottom line is that companies need to regularly inspect dock seals ...

Lessons in Laminating

(Magazine)

January 31, 2007, ... books, lamination is typically a paragraph. You can get a whole book on coating science.” Medical Film Challenges MCT’s medical film, produced on 62-in. coaters from Worldwide Converting (no longer ...

Brand Protection with Micro-Dots

(Magazine)

December 31, 2006, ... and pharmaceuticals. As these dots are invisible and spread on the whole surface of the packaging, it is impossible to replicate or to erase these dots. These invisible micro-points contain encrypted ...

Super Sized

(Corrugated)

December 31, 2006, ... are membership retail/wholesale hybrids like Costco and Sam’s Club (a division of Wal-Mart). Super centers are food-drug combination stores and mass merchandisers under a single roof like Wal-Mart super ...

METRO Selects Exclusive Shrink Management Global Partner

(Archive)

December 02, 2006, ...  Installation of 3G NDRF (called “Liberty PX” in North America) antennas and deactivators is planned for the more than 425 Cash & Carry self-service wholesale stores in 28 countries, making it the most ...

Outlook: Challenging

(Magazine)

November 30, 2006, ... and markets, and concludes with directories of silicone suppliers, release base paper suppliers, release base film suppliers, and release liner producers across the whole of Asia. For more information ...

A Call to Arms

(Magazine)

November 30, 2006, ... for filling holes, transportation costs, effect of transportation on the environment, etc. When will this change? Our average total costs are approximately $35/ton, subject of course, to demographics. ...

What's Ne

(Magazine)

November 30, 2006, New products from: Presstek, NuPro Technologies, Alcan Packaging, Schober USA, Montalvo Corp., Agfa Graphics, Fischer & Krecke, Ghezzi & Annoni, M-real USA, Kodak Graphic Communications Group, Dow Reichhold, ...

It's Fall, So It Must Be Show Tim

(Editorial)

September 30, 2006, ... 11-14 at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Ctr. in Rosemont, IL. Some may have differing opinions, but on the whole, I thought the show was pretty good! As a visitor/converter, you would have heard lots ...

Proof is in the Process

(Magazine)

September 30, 2006, ... procedures and solutions, the whole market must react. With ShelfReady, we've found a way to meet this challenge with no cost increase.” Investing in Prepress APC, which was formed from the merger of ...

Capturing Growth in Paper

(Flexpack)

September 30, 2006, ... even since 2000. Unfortunately, given the growth in the overall packaging market, these dynamics have resulted in share and volume declines for paper as a whole. Paper Dominates Some Segments Despite ...

PDFs for Packaging

(Office Products)

September 30, 2006, ... for production. Potential errors that could cause a halt in the production process reportedly can be avoided with this technology. In addition to the preflight function, the traceability of the whole ...

A Team Effort

(Magazine)

September 30, 2006, ... new equipment or challenging new technology. And sometimes it is a relatively simple upgrade to existing equipment that brings a whole new look to the process. CONVERTER INFO: Protect-all Inc. ...

What's Ne

(Magazine)

September 30, 2006, ... the bottom. Holes are punched in the web prior to folding to form the bottom of the bag. Folding is done from single web using dual folding boards, resulting in less trim/slitting than conventional, multiweb ...

ATTENTION Narrow Web & Label Converters:

(Archive)

September 03, 2006, As you prepare for your visit to Labelexpo Americas on Sept. 11–14, 2006, at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Ctr., in Rosemont, IL (near O’Hare Airport), be sure to include the following suppliers that ...