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- Second Half M&A Activity Expected Slower But Still Strong
- (Trends/Management News)
- July 11, 2011, Mesirow Financial issues a mid-year review and second half forecast for the packaging industry with regard to merger & acquisition activity CHICAGO, IL | Mesirow Financial issues a mid-year review and ...
- AIMCAL Business Outlook Falls
- (AIMCAL)
- July 10, 2011, ... the last three quarters. “Likewise, the forecasted index decreased from 66.66 to 46.34. With this decrease, the forecasted index has fallen to its lowest level in two years. A reading over 50 generally ...
- Blown Stretch Film Line To Boost Growth for Sigma
- (Flexpack News)
- July 10, 2011, ... our leading position. They have done a very good job of addressing our needs and we are pleased with the depth of their machinery capabilities in both blown and cast film." Sigma Stretch Film is a div. ...
- Update on World BOPET Market Trends
- (Flexpack News)
- July 07, 2011, ... pricing, and forecasts for thin and thick BOPET film markets to 2015. The study reports: The global BOPET film shortage has eased to the point that supplies are now plentiful, and new capacity coming ...
- DuPont Awards: Sustainability, Waste Reduction Drive Winners
- (Trends/Management News)
- July 04, 2011, ... Winners were announced June 13 through a global webcast where members of the independent jury panel provided their perspectives on the winning achievements and where the winners discussed the challenges ...
- ReporterCarton & Box
- (Magazine)
- June 30, 2011, ... study, “The Future of Folding Cartons: Market Forecasts to 2016,” which finds overall actual consumption of cartonboard as measured by converter sales will grow by an average of 4.4% annually. Asia will ...
- Brand Security Innovations Technical Report: Tamper Evidence
- (Print)
- June 30, 2011, ... is forecast to grow up to 7% this year to an estimated $880 billion — largely as a result of emerging economies such as China, which is set to become the third largest global market for pharmaceuticals. ...
- Holographic Technology: Pattern Pressing
- (Print)
- June 30, 2011, ... layers, the coatings, and so on,” he says. “It's light years away from children's stickers.” One of those developments, says Wood, is the so-called “Cast & Cure” process, an innovation in holographic ...
- Drives Motors: From Zero to 800
- (Label/Tape)
- June 30, 2011, ... Technologies to evaluate how to proceed because Circonix had performed a similar extrusion line move four years earlier at Mondi's Lancaster plant in the US. Plus, Fulton Machinery, Circonix's machinery ...
- Graph Expo To Offer Education
- (Trends/Management)
- June 30, 2011, ... 10, will be followed during the show by more than 50 seminars covering critical industry issues. The sessions span 11 market segments and will provide forecasts, trends, and information on key technologies ...
- R&D Center Adds Coating Line
- (Flexpack)
- June 30, 2011, PAWCATUCK, CT | Davis-Standard has installed a seven-layer cast coextrusion film and sheet pilot line at the Pasadena, TX, Research and Technical Center PAWCATUCK, CT | Davis-Standard has installed a seven-layer ...
- Bottled Water Volume Grows
- (Label/Tape)
- June 30, 2011, ... approximate -8% growth rate experienced in 2009/2008. AWA forecasts continued growth for the period 2010 to 2015 but at an overall rate of approximately 2.6% CAGR, yielding an additional volume of approximately ...
- Capacity Needed
- (Slit)
- May 31, 2011, ... Plasticos Especializadoes de Monterrey S.A. (Plemsa) to purchase a Titan ER610 compact slitter from Atlas Converting Equipment. Armando Vazquez Castillo, director of the Plemsa Plastics Div., saw the unit ...
- US Bottled Water Volume Grows 3.5% in 2010
- (Trends/Management News)
- May 30, 2011, ... for pressure-sensitive labels grew in 2010 with an overall growth rate of 5.5% over 2009. This is a significant improvement over the approximate -8% growth rate experienced in 2009/2008. AWA forecast ...
- Atlas Sells Titan Compact Slitter to Mexico-Based Plemsa
- (Slit News)
- April 19, 2011, ... flexible packaging materials. “We have been very satisfied with the performance of the first Titan ER610 slitter, which we installed at the beginning of last year,” explains Armando Vazquez Castillo, ...
- Automated Ink Logistics Have Sustainable Lean Features for Flexo
- (Flexography)
- April 04, 2011, ... jobs. Ink yields are said to be boosted by as much as 30%. IMS software platform offers time-saving features, including such management tools as stock control, ink consumption analysis, recasting, and ...
- EDI Offers Trial Runs
- (Extrusion Coating)
- March 31, 2011, ... comprises a 63-in. extrusion line that can be used for cast film, coating, or lamination and is fully equipped for lab-scale, single- or multilayer production, and web converting. The center also includes ...
- Surface Treating: Promoting Adhesion
- (Surface Prep)
- February 28, 2011, ... also diminish with these low heat discharges. Cast film extrusion, biaxial orientation systems, laminating, extrusion coating, and printing processes therefore all benefit from these developments. Atmospheric ...
- Green Trends Prevail
- (Flexpack)
- February 28, 2011, The current Great Recession has hardly changed people's drinking habits. Consumption of hot drinks keeps growing, and spending patterns of the developed The current Great Recession has hardly changed people's ...
- AIMCAL Releases Positive Outlook
- (Trends/Management)
- January 31, 2011, ... Coaters and Laminators (AIMCAL) has released its Business Outlook Survey for Q4 2010. Forty-seven member companies participated in the survey. AIMCAL summarizes the results by reporting that forecasted ...
