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Badger Celebrates 75 Years in Business

Greenville, WI | Badger Plug, celebrating its 75th anniversary, began by manufacturing wood core plugs in a small brick building on the banks of the Fox

Platemaking System Aids Growth

Amherst, NY | Packstar Flexible Packaging is bringing more of its plate production in-house with new solutions from Kodak. Adding to its other Kodak products,

View From Down Under

This month's editorial strays from the norm. One of PFFC's E-Clips e-newsletter subscribers voiced an opinion to which I felt you'd enjoy responding.

How Much Misalignment Is Trouble?

Most converting equipment suppliers and manufacturers take care to ensure the rollers of their machines are aligned. Designing for good alignment, machining

How To Become a Green Printer

What is sustainability? According to the World Commission on Environment & Development, it is Meeting the needs of the present without compromising the

AVT Updates Integration Process

Hod-Hasharon, Israel | Advanced Vision Technology (AVT) announces the next AVT-GMI integration steps in its long-term One Company strategy. The sales

Inkjet Press Is a Big Winner

Foster City, CA | EFI reports its Jetrion 3025 inkjet system enabled the China Banknote Printing and Minting Corp. (CBPMC) to print 13 million tickets

People

Cognex Corp., Natick, MA, appoints Tom Nash president of the Surface Inspection Systems Div. NDC Infrared Engineering, Irwindale, CA, names Craig Wolf

Spooling System Expands Markets

Lancashire, UK | SJA Film Technologies has invested in a 24-station spooling machine from Double R Controls that allows SJA to convert a wider range of

Passing the Torch

Milwaukee, WI | Anguil Environmental Systems, supplier of air pollution control and VOC abatement equipment, celebrated its 30th anniversary this year,

Learn UV/EB Benefits at RadTech Conference

Bethesda, MD | RadTech Intl. will present uv.eb WEST 2009 at the Sheraton Gateway Hotel at LAX in Los Angeles, CA, February 17-18. The two-day conference

Biodegradable Plastics to Gain, Says Study

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

Narrow Web & Label Reporter

Vodka Label Wins Big RICHMOND, VA | Chesapeake Corp. recently captured top honors in the labeling category at the UK Packaging Awards sponsored by Packaging

Narrow Web & Label Reporter

Vodka Label Wins Big RICHMOND, VA | Chesapeake Corp. recently captured top honors in the labeling category at the UK Packaging Awards sponsored by Packaging

Color Control

Independent Printing Co. (IPCO), Martinez, CA, may be just two years shy of its 100th Anniversary, but this is one label converter/commercial printer

Eco Inks

While sustainability has attracted greater attention from converters and suppliers alike in recent years, the importance of ink in the process sometimes

A Host of Options for Brand Security

In today's converting and packaging environment, security needs are changing constantly. Security features traditionally used only on important documents

Credit Chaos

What a year 2008 turned out to be. A crisis that began in the subprime lending marketplace escalated into a full-blown credit freeze. Governments across

Creating e-Pedigrees

Variable data marking and coding isn't a foreign concept to most package converters. For years, many have been placing variable data on packaging materials

GOA Is Bilingual

The Printing Assn. of Florida (PAF), headquartered in Orlando, will stage the 34th edition of Graphics of the Americas (GOA) at the Miami Convention Center

What's New Products

Inks Low in VOCs Triumph sheet-fed process inks from Kohl & Madden feature a low-VOC ink technology that is high in renewable raw materials and is said

Alan Lane

Operations manager at Huhtamaki's Fulton, NY, plant Personal motto | If you haven't got time to do it right the first time, where are you going to find

Narrow Web & Label Products

Splicer Is Compact The MLS automatic lap splicer for nonstop unwinding at full press speed has a compact design said to make it ideal as a mid-press splicer

Carton & Box Reporter

Proteus Packaging, Franklin, WI, became the first US company to purchase a Speedmaster XL 145 very large format press from Heidelberg. The folding carton

Cartons Lighten Up

Advances in technology usually are good for a company's success, especially in the converting industry. But that certainly wasn't the case for Printed

Reduce & Reuse

Across the globe, the traditional commercial markets for extrusion-coated/laminated materials are being eclipsed in terms of volumes by applications in

Bag Sits Flat

Being has become the new cool trend in pouchmaking. A unique, box-like profile combines the best features of a stand-up pouch with those of a true flat

Wrinkle Removers

For most printers and converters, tension controls are like the utilities coming into your home or office the only time you give them any thought is when

Tension Control

Controller Offers Ethernet Connection Designed for precise closed loop tension control, the Spyder is capable of controlling web tension in unwind, rewind,

What's New Products

Rolls Aid Web Control Idler rolls feature hundreds of precision-machined grooves that allow air to escape from between the roll and web to provide better

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