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Future of Package Printing

Published: December 20, 2006, By pffc-online.com
Intertech-Pira has published "The Future of Package Printing to 2011," a report that covers six printing processess, five types of packaging material, and 13 countries across Europe, North America, and Asia.

Get Ready for Graftalia & Converflex 2007

Published: December 20, 2006, By pffc-online.com
Graftalia & Converflex 2009 will be held March 24-28, 2009, in Italay. The 2006 edition was attended by 950 exhibitors, 45% of which came from outside of Italy, and 40,000 visitors, 14% from outside of Italy.

Maintaining Web Alignment

Published: December 19, 2006, By pffc-online.com
Fife will present the next Maxcess Intl. "Tech Tips" e-seminar to help converters assure proper alignment of their moving webs. "Mainting Web Alignment" will be presented Wednesday, January 24, 2007 at 2 p.m. EST.

Flower City Printing Wins 6 Awards for Print Excellence

Published: December 19, 2006, By pffc-online.com
Flower City Printing has won six awards (three gold, two silver, and one bronze) from the 32nd Intl. Gallery print competition produced by the Intl. Assn. of Printing House Craftsmen (IAPHC). (fcp.biz)

Dude, Where's My Paper?

Published: December 17, 2006, By pffc-online.com
Mohawk Fine Papers has launched "Dude, Where's My Paper?" at viapaper.com, a site that offers easy-to-use tools to help designers, printers, and merchants understand the comprehensive new Via papers portfolio.

Water-Based Chemical Products Brochure

Published: December 17, 2006, By pffc-online.com
ADM Tronics has released a new brochure that covers its entire line of aqueous chemical products.

High Visibility Packaging Study

Published: December 14, 2006, By pffc-online.com
US demand for high visibility packaging, including clamshell, blister and other types, is expected to increase 5.1 percent annually to $8.5 billion in 2010.

Worldwide Pharmaceutical Experts to Meet at Pharmintech 2007

Published: December 14, 2006, By pffc-online.com
An international meeting concerning "research, development, and innovation for pharmaceutical technology," organized by the Intl. Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering (ISPE) will mark the opening day of Pharmintech, the reference exhibition for the pharmaceutical, personal care, and nutraceutical industry held in Bologna June 12-14, 2007.

Color Management Seminar

Published: December 13, 2006, By pffc-online.com
X-Rite has been offering a seminar that will run through February 2007 designed to help creative directors, designers, photographers, and production managers with color management.

GRE Completes Global Circle

Published: December 13, 2006, By pffc-online.com
GRE Digital Solutions has formed GRE Digital Solutions, Inc., in Philadelphia, PA, completeing its circle of global sales and service facilities around the world.

SOMA Engineering Expands

Published: December 12, 2006, By pffc-online.com
SOMA Engineering has expanded its sales and manufacturing operation with the addition of two, purpose-dedicated buildings totaling 13,456 sq. ft.

Curwood Earns Ocean Spray Supplier of the Year 2006 Award

Published: December 12, 2006, By pffc-online.com
Flexible packaging company Curwood has been named Supplier of the Year 2006—Primary Packaging by Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc. Ocean Spray CEO Randy Papadellis praised Curwood for “their penchant to commit resources to drive Ocean Spray’s business to new levels using innovative packaging technologies.”

Global Wine & Wine Label Market & Technology Review

Published: December 11, 2006, By pffc-online.com
AWA Alexander Watson Assoc. has published the AWAreness report "Global Wine & Wine Label Market & Technology Review 2006," which provides an understanding of the wine label market.

Hercules Paper and Wisdom Adhesives Announce Distribution Agreement

Published: December 11, 2006, By pffc-online.com
The Paper Technologies and Ventures Group of Hercules Inc. now is the exclusive distributor for Wisdom Adhesive products and services for the worldwide pulp and paper industry.

PMMI Announces Packaging Intelligence Brief Series

Published: December 10, 2006, By pffc-online.com
The Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Institute (PMMI) introduces the Packaging Intelligence Brief (PIB) series to help define and address trends currently shaping the future of packaging.

The Future of Retail-Ready Packaging

Published: December 10, 2006, By pffc-online.com
Intertech-Pira releases "The Future of Retail-Ready Packaging," a report covers the entire retail-ready packaging market.

Global Glue Applied Label Market & Technlogy Review

Published: December 07, 2006, By pffc-online.com
AWA Alexander Watson Assoc. has published the AWArness Report "Global Glue-Applied Lable Market & Technology Review."

Asian Plant Receives North American Security Products Organization Certification

Published: December 06, 2006, By pffc-online.com
Brady Corp.'s plant in Singapore, Brady Corp. Asia Pte Ltd., has been certified by the North American Security Products Organization (NASPO) for successfully completing a comprehensive security risk management audit.

Miniature Cold Glue Valve

Published: December 06, 2006, By pffc-online.com
Valco's new electric valves offer unprecedented speed in a 15mm wide package.

Sun Chemical Increases Prices

Published: December 05, 2006, By pffc-online.com
Sun Chemical will increase prices 4%-6% on all packaging inks in North America, effective January 1, 2007.

FPA Releases Agendas for the 2007 Safety Conference & Environmental Summit

Published: December 05, 2006, By pffc-online.com
The Flexible Packaging Assn.'s annual Safety Conference and Environmental Summit will be held at the Trade Winds Resort in St. Petersburg Beach, FL, January 24-26, 2007. These key FPA events include interactive presentations from industry and government agency officials focusing on regulatory, safety and environmental issues, and topics of importance to the flexible packaging industry.

Supply Chain Conference

Published: December 04, 2006, By pffc-online.com
LogiCon, taking place March 5-8, 2007, in Las Vegas, will provide up-to-date supply chain information.

Luxury Packaging Study

Published: December 04, 2006, By pffc-online.com
According to a new study from Intertech-Pira, demand for luxury products is growing, leading to fast growth in this packaging sector.

AWA Publishes 2006 Labeling Market Study

Published: December 03, 2006, By pffc-online.com
AWA Alexander Watson Assoc. has published an expanded, updated edition of its "Labeling Markets: European Market Study & Sourcebook."

MOCON Wins Technology Innovation Award

Published: December 03, 2006, By pffc-online.com
MOCON was honored with a Tekne Award, given to the best and brightest technology innovators in Minnesota.

acpo Receives ISO Recertification

Published: November 29, 2006, By pffc-online.com
acpo has received a Certificate of Registration, Certificate Number QEC15615, for complying with the requirements of ISO 9001:2000 quality management systems.

Alco Publishes New Brochure

Published: November 29, 2006, By pffc-online.com
Alco Chemical has published a new brochure containing information about the company's patented Alcogum rheology modifiers.

Video Blog

Published: November 28, 2006, By pffc-online.com
Maxcess Intl.'s Web site has a video log with footage from the recent Pack Expo show.

Winter, Bell Company Awarded Patriot Certificate

Published: November 28, 2006, By pffc-online.com
Winter, Bell Company, a paper and packaging specialty company, recently was awarded the prestigious “My Boss is a Patriot” certificate of appreciation by the Office of the Secretary of Defense, National Committee for Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve.

Curwood Earns Hormel Foods' No. 1 Award

Published: November 27, 2006, By pffc-online.com
Curwood has earned Hormel Foods' No. 1 Award for performance excellence from 2001 through 2005.

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