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- 3M/Emtech Emulsion Technologies Go Digital with New Line of Label Materials
- (Archive)
- September 12, 2004, ... Indigo-optimized polyester and polypropylene facestocks. "All the label materials feature top-quality adhesives from 3M," states the manufacturer. According to 3M/Emtech, in addition to the new digital-friendly ...
- Can This Lamination Be Saved?
- (Magazine)
- August 30, 2004, ... web handling, the excitement usually happens at the web-roller interface. Going around a roller should be an elastic experience. When your flat web is forced around the cylinder of a roller, the curved ...
- A Touch Above
- (Magazine)
- August 30, 2004, ... base in just three years. Marketing director Malcolm Collins attributes the success to the company's fresh face on the North American playing field. “I think we offer a new choice to customers,” says Collins. ...
- The Rx for RH
- (Magazine)
- August 30, 2004, ... than you think. Converters commonly face heating season problems caused by dry air. These problems include sheet separation, misfeeds, warping and dimensional changes, ink coverage maladies, folding ...
- Breakin' Bounds in Barrier Films
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- August 30, 2004, ... the Kline report suggests there is no slowing down the popularity of barrier films, even with the obstacles the technology still faces. “Although the industry has sustained decades of strong growth, the ...
- Release Liners: Challenges Ahead
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- August 30, 2004, ... both preprinted labels and blanks can be converted successfully — even with shape variations such as radius corners — with siliconization of the facestock, eliminating the need for a release liner and ...
- Protecting Brands
- (Magazine)
- August 30, 2004, ... the most flexible carrier of security devices, as it is almost infinitely variable within its components. Security devices can be embedded under or on top of facestock, printed on it, or added to the adhesive ...
- New Product Digest
- (Magazine)
- August 30, 2004, ... a web to 1 micron. Combination cleaner reportedly maintains a consistently clean print surface with minimal maintenance costs. Available in single- or double-sided cleaning. Visit booth 1216. Reduce ...
- Converting Industry News, Part 1
- (Magazine)
- August 30, 2004, ... in lamination, GiftMaker Systems recently purchased Contech’s SSR surface slitter/rewinder to address converting challenges. "At a trade show, we took the worst set of materials that gave us the most ...
- What's New in Narrow We
- (Magazine)
- July 30, 2004, ... Face materials include 50# Laser Plus, 50# Data, Transfer Premium Plus, 54# Raflacoat, and Kromekote Extragloss. All piggyback label stocks use proprietary permanent adhesives. Constructions comprise a ...
- Converting Industry News
- (Magazine)
- June 29, 2004, ... using an ink jet printer; the image is placed face down on the foil or holographic board and passed through a heated laminator; the Mira-Jet carrier sheet is peeled away, and the image is permanently adhered ...
- The Latitudes of LEAN
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- June 29, 2004, ... be based not only on lean manufacturing but also on computer-integrated manufacturing, direct-machine interface, and supply-chain processes in the tag and label environment,” she explains. Good news ...
- New Products for the Converting Industry, PFFC, June 2004
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- May 30, 2004, ... Eliminate Static with Ion Knife Exair Corp., Cincinnati, OH; 513/671-3322; exair.com Super Ion Knife eliminates static electricity from paper, plastics, and other product surfaces where poor print ...
- Ritrama Reels in New Biz with Innovative Adhesive Coatings, PFFC, June 2004
- (Magazine)
- May 30, 2004, ... aspects of performance. She explains that since most of their customers print the labels, the lab uses various techniques to measure the surface treatments of the films to determine how well inks will ...
- New Products, Part 1
- (Magazine)
- May 30, 2004, ... up, calibrated, and accessed remotely via a simple-to-use interface, or included serial interface with Windows-based software, or via the new optional Profibus interface. Control parameters that can be ...
- Appleton and Rock-Tenn Partner on Paperboard-Based Security Package
- (Archive)
- May 20, 2004, ... White Label Security Board. The covert security features of the product include taggants and read-write threads in its face stock, which is made from Appleton's TechMark line of intelligent papers, adds ...
- Tracking Wrinkles: Part I
- (Magazine)
- April 30, 2004, ... bonded by traction to a roller controls the bending of the upstream web span. With good traction, the web angle entering a roller will align parallel to the roller's surface motion. Misalignment tracking ...
- Using a Chemical Primer for High Bonds & Low Oxygen Transmission
- (Magazine)
- April 30, 2004, ... unit. The coated rolls were tested one week after manufacture for oxygen barrier performance and coating surface characteristics. Measurement of oxygen transmission rate involved placing the samples ...
- Converting Industry News
- (Magazine)
- April 29, 2004, ... continue to head the ABB robotics, automatic, and manufacturing business, now called Manufacturing Automation. Expansions UCB Building Radcure Facility BRUSSELS, BELGIUM — UCB reports Surface ...
- Products
- (Magazine)
- April 29, 2004, ... units; single- and multiple-trim pickups; and complete system engineering for single extrusion/converting lines or plant-wide applications. Improve Surface Adhesion Optical Associates, San Jose, CA, ...
