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Meeting the Sustainability Challenge Without Compromising Barrier Performance

(Archive)

January 28, 2009, ... costs without compromising the barrier performance of metallized films: Downgauging Less aluminum Layer elimination In the first case, the vast majority of barrier food packaging applications in ...

Badger Celebrates 75 Years in Business

(News Clips Archive)

December 31, 2008, ... products over the years, including spool components, tube closures, steel and aluminum coil packaging products, wood fabrications, and custom manufacturing. Badger Plug also offers a recycling service ...

How Much Misalignment Is Trouble?

(Web Handling)

December 31, 2008, ...  In aluminum foil, elongation from tension is lower yet, 0.01%. A 2-ft span needs only 5 mils of misalignment to loosen an edge, just 1 mil/ft for a 60-in. wide product. Unless you are running aluminum ...

How To Become a Green Printer

(Print)

December 31, 2008, What is sustainability? According to the World Commission on Environment & Development, it is Meeting the needs of the present without compromising the What is sustainability? According to the World Commission ...

What's New Product

(New Products)

December 31, 2008, 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 Inks Low in VOCs Triumph sheet-fed process inks ...

Sensing Roll Combines Strain Gauge/Tube

(Tension)

December 17, 2008, The TNT-Series web tension sensing roll combines a sensitive strain gauge... The TNT-Series web tension sensing roll combines a sensitive strain gauge with a durable, high performance, lightweight aluminum ...

Reduce & Reuse

(Extrusion Coating)

November 30, 2008, ... aluminum by weight. Developed in Europe by Tetra Pak in the early 1960s, aseptic packaging has been enjoying good growth in North America since its introduction in the early 1980s. Aseptic containers ...

Web Exclusive: Slitting Film

(Archive)

November 11, 2008, ... for the development of radically new plastic film is slight; rather developments are expected to take the form of new combinations, particularly through the process of co-extrusion. Combinations with aluminum ...

Compostable and Biodegradeable Packaging

(News Eclips)

October 09, 2008, ... are printed using water-based inks. The outside layer of the colorful package is transparent cellulose, and the inside film layer is made of cellulose with one side coated with metallized aluminum that ...

Narrow Web & Label Reporter

(Narrow Web)

September 30, 2008, ... is manufacturing D/W 351, a PTFE-coated foil that combines a thin layer of PTFE with 0.005-in.-thick aluminum foil. The aluminum is coated on the other side with a p-s silicone adhesive for what is said ...

New Product Digest

(New Products)

August 31, 2008, ... coupled with a durable, high performance, lightweight aluminum tube to produce an integrated sensing roll. Company says roll fits virtually any application and features flexible mounting options. Comes ...

Predators Team with Smurfit-Stone to Go Green

(News Eclips)

August 12, 2008, ... our fans recycling at home, work and play.” New for the 2008-09 season, the Sommet Ctr. will be equipped with Smurfit-Stone recycling stations for plastics, paper and aluminum. The arena, and its concession ...

August 2008 PFFC What's New Products: Part tw

(New Products)

July 31, 2008, ... model). It is capable of printing on all customary substrates, including film, aluminum, paper, and paperboard. The smartGPS (Graphic Positioning System) allows instant job startup with no impression- ...

Dirge for a Plastic Bag?

(Editorial)

July 31, 2008, ... their undying support for the latest “Zeitgeist” movement. As you indicated, we investigated 50-year-old landfills, tried to ban plastic bags, wanted to outlaw aluminum cans, tried to outlaw the six-pack ...

Web Exclusive: Are Sleeves Ready for Narrow Web?

(Archive)

July 31, 2008, ... which allows a significant reduction of setup times; • lower costs compared to impression cylinders of steel or aluminum; • abolition of gears or bearing rings, thus doing away with wearing parts; • ...

Idler Roller Bearings: Living the Good Long Life?

(Web Lines)

June 30, 2008, ... loads may come from thermal expansion differences between high thermal expansion of aluminum shells and relative-to-low-expanding steel bearings. Twisting loads are generated from misalignment of the ...

Spear Purchases Precision Printing & Packaging

(News Eclips)

June 15, 2008, CINCINATTI, OH | Spear, a leading global supplier of beverage labels, has purchased the Precision Printing & Packaging (PPPI) unit from Anheuser-Busch Packaging Group, based in St. Louis, MO CINCINATTI, ...

Sweet-Smelling Building

(Green Converting)

May 31, 2008, HELSINKI, FINLAND Ahlstrom, a supplier of high-performance, fiber-based materials, received the French trophy of the Ecological and Economical Technologies HELSINKI, FINLAND Ahlstrom, a supplier of high-performance, ...

Narrow Web & Label Reporter

(Label/Tape)

May 31, 2008, ... process. All-aluminum honeycomb core allows for maximum airflow, and unit is covered with thick top and bottom plates for extra strength. Vacuum motors are said to be maintenance-free and quiet. Graphic ...

Materials/Substrates: Custom Fit

(Substrates)

May 31, 2008, ... Metallized white film is said to offer economic and performance benefits compared with thin aluminum foil and sealant laminations. Employs a two-layer lamination as opposed to the typical three-layer laminate, ...