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Reader Reaction: Top Ten Products for Converters

Published: March 01, 2009, By By Claudia Hine, Managing Editor
Top Ten Products for Converters

Crowning Benefits

Published: March 01, 2009, By By Matthew Menges, Menges Roller Co.
Many industrial manufacturers rely on crowned rollers. A crown is a shape or diameter profile necessary to compensate for deflection and obtain uniform nip pressure distribution

Flexible Packaging Association 2009 Award Winners

Published: March 01, 2009, By By Claudia Hine, Managing Editor
The Flexible Packaging Assn. (FPA), honors 24 packages in its 2009 Achievement Awards Competition. Here is a look at the top award winners.

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

Edelmann and Codimag Web Offset Semi-Rotary Web Presses Are for Short Runs

Published: March 01, 2009, By By Chris Davis, Matik North America
In the evolution of print, there have been many discoveries, inventions, and improvements that have shaped the industry as we know it. There are a variety

What's New Products: March 2009

Published: March 01, 2009
Install Brakes Easily The CD2 module for company's CD Series brakes is said to make installation and setup easier, improve performance, make brakes more

Examining Recession Resistance

Published: February 01, 2009, By Yolanda Simonsis Associate Publisher/Editor
In PFFC's December 8 edition of E-Clips e-newsletter, I asked readers this question: With consumers opting to eat at home more and spending down, is the

Flexible Packaging Wipes Out Waste

Published: February 01, 2009
New flexible packaging for cleaning wipes from Method Products offers a 60% reduction in plastic compared to the canisters

How Much Misalignment Is Trouble?

Published: February 01, 2009, By By Timothy J. Walker Contributing Editor
Shear wrinkles are the most common wrinkle mechanism, forming a diagonal crease and appearing to walk across rollers like an inch worm. The way to create

How To Find Green Projects

Published: February 01, 2009, By By David Argent Contributing Editor
One of the sad responses to the sustainability movement has been bogus compliance, sometimes known as This involves invalid claims, no proof, hidden tradeoffs,

Triple Play for Nordmeccanica

Published: February 01, 2009
Piacenza, Italy | Nordmeccanica announces the third North American installation within 18 months of its Triplex Combi Vertical multi-ply coater/laminator.

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

Flex-Pack Summit

Published: February 01, 2009
Norcross, Ga | TAPPI PLACE announces the 2009 Flexible Packaging Summit, to be held in Columbus, OH, April 28-30. Included will be the two-day Consumer

Portal to Information

Published: February 01, 2009
Fort Mill, Sc | The Assn. of Industrial Metallizers, Coaters and Laminators (AIMCAL) announces the establishment of the Converting Portal, an information

Changes at Sartomer

Published: February 01, 2009
Exton, Pa | Global specialty chemicals manufacturer Sartomer Co. is restructuring its Americas division, eliminating 17 positions at the Exton headquarters,

Lab Facility Gets Support

Published: February 01, 2009
Minneapolis, Mn | Mocon is partnering with Clemson Univ. and Sealed Air to support the new Cryovac Flavour Mark Retort Laboratory. To that end, Mocon

People News: February

Published: February 01, 2009
Ilene Gordon, president and CEO of Alcan Packaging, is named the Best Executive (for non-services businesses-more than 2,500 employees) at The 5th Annual

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

Graph Expo Beats the Odds

Published: February 01, 2009
Reston, Va | Despite bleak worldwide economic news that had dominated the media in the preceding weeks, Graph Expo 2008 exceeded expectations and enjoyed

Pilot Line Has New Coating System

Published: February 01, 2009
Fribourg, Switzerland | Polytype Converting reports a new coating system for functional coatings available on its pilot line. The technology centre is

Narrow Web & Label Reporter: February

Published: February 01, 2009
Challenging Labels Are Winners DEER PARK, NY | Overnight Labels won two awards when the IAPHC (International Assn. of Printing House Craftsmen), with

February Carton & Box Reporter

Published: February 01, 2009
Soft Box Concept Honored RICHMOND, VA | Chesapeake Corp. earned runner-up recognition in the cartonboard category at the UK Packaging Awards, sponsored

Cartons Go Upscale

Published: February 01, 2009, By Edited by Claudia Hine, Managing Editor
Tom Wynne, VP of manufacturing at Fleetwood-Fibre Packaging & Graphics, figured the first three manroland presses worked so well, the fourth shouldn't

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

Conserve Energy

Published: February 01, 2009, By By Edward Cohen, Edward Cohen Consulting, and Dan Bemi, MEGTEC Systems

The web coating and laminating process is dependent on fossil fuels, petroleum, coal, and gas as a source of energy. Historically in the US, there has

What's New

Published: February 01, 2009
The Scientific Sample Sizer lab-scale take-off module for company's measuring extruder systems enables customers to generate specimens quickly and automatically

What's New Products: February

Published: February 01, 2009
Sensors Are Accurate Smarteye X-Pro Model XP10 high-speed, dual-function sensors are designed to perform as either precision registration mark sensors

Experience Speaks: Jason Grossman

Published: February 01, 2009
President of Paragon Label Co. Motto: Treat customers and employees even better than you expect to be treated. Go the extra mile to make somebody's day

News Clips

Published: January 01, 2009
Amcor, Mundelein, IL, is one of only two companies within the containers and packaging sector to be included in the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index,

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

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