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- AIMCAL Awards: Canisters Blow Away Competition
- (Metallizing)
- March 31, 2011, ... Awards The Sustainability Awards honor equipment, materials, or processes that reduce environmental impact, minimize energy usage or waste, and/or increase recycling. Four companies received recognition. ...
- INFO*FLEX Show Preview: Full Speed Ahead
- (Flexography)
- March 31, 2011, ... Intl. Improving the Environmental Impact of Printing Inks — Scot Pederson, Siegwerk USA Controlling Ink Dynamics for Process Improvement — Ed Dedman, Graymills Corp. Surface Energy 101 — Scott ...
- Experience Speaks: Michael R. Pfaff
- (Trends/Management)
- March 31, 2011, ... doing our part as a concerned corporate citizen. The in-line machine systems we supply offer a very sustainable way to produce packaging. They use less paper, less energy, and less labor, and this is our ...
- Online Tool Studies WAGES
- (Trends/Management)
- March 31, 2011, MILWAUKEE, WI | Rockwell Automation is offering a free online tool that gives manufacturers a complete analysis of their current water, air, gas, electric, MILWAUKEE, WI | Rockwell Automation is offering ...
- AIMCAL Awards: Canisters Blow Away Competition
- (Coating/Laminating)
- March 17, 2011, ... impactful three dimensionality. Continue to Page 2 Sustainability Awards The Sustainability Awards honor equipment, materials, or processes that reduce environmental impact, minimize energy usage ...
- Capri Packaging Orders MIRAFLEX W&H Flexo Press
- (Flexography)
- March 07, 2011, ... and ready to take on more outside packaging jobs. The press has also helped make our printing operation more efficient by reducing waste and energy consumption.” Plant manager Rick Heck adds, “The MIRAFLEX ...
- Coating Matters: 4 Steps to Resolving Coating Defects
- (Coating/Laminating)
- February 28, 2011, ... step in the process is to utilize the results so the defect does not happen again. You may laugh at this, but if you have taken the time to deal with a defect that required as much thought, energy, and ...
- Toray Turns to Solar Power
- (Coating/Laminating: Green)
- February 28, 2011, ... begin construction in Q2 2011 on a $2 million, 446-kW solar photovoltaic field on its 70-acre campus in North Kingstown. Toray estimates the efficient clean-energy system, which is designed to produce ...
- Green Converting: Is IML Sustainable?
- (Label/Tape)
- February 28, 2011, Although sustainability means different things to different people, it generally includes minimizing use of energy and non-renewable resources as well Although sustainability means different things to ...
- Carton & Box Reporter
- (Carton Box)
- February 28, 2011, Freedom Corrugated, Hazelton, PA, implements an energy management system from WPS Global, Milwaukee, WI, to achieve a 20% reduction in energy costs. Smurfit-Stone Freedom Corrugated, Hazelton, PA, implements ...
- Good Q4 for Flexotecnica
- (Trends/Management)
- February 28, 2011, ... waste, at its factory in Tavazzano, Italy, concurrently with K 2010 in Düsseldorf, Germany, and the Converting & Package Printing Expo in Chicago, IL. The company also introduced a compact, energy-efficient ...
- Surface Treating: Promoting Adhesion
- (Surface Prep)
- February 28, 2011, ... the preferred level. So if the surface of polymer films and other non-polar substrates are made polar, how does corona treatment create the bond with solvent-borne, water-borne, and energy-curable inks, ...
- Print on Water
- (Print)
- February 28, 2011, ... According to the company, the printing equipment is said to offer high levels of efficiency, low energy consumption, and offers “limitless” application on almost all surfaces up to a thickness of 200 ...
- Flexible Packaging: Eco Innovation
- (Flexpack)
- February 28, 2011, ... space, requiring less energy to produce and transport. The Wallet reduces the volume of packaging components by more than 93% versus a thermoformed tray and uses less energy to produce. It is said to ...
- Presses Sold at Uteco's Open Hous
- (Flexography)
- February 28, 2011, ... as will a new color matching system. The company also says it will continue to focus on the environmental benefits of its presses, including waste reduction, energy savings, and environmentally conscious ...
- Sludge Press Offered
- (Flexography)
- February 28, 2011, The ASP (Auto Sludge Press) features what is said to be low-cost plug and play technology for small volumes, sludge dewatering solutions, and as a stand-alone The ASP (Auto Sludge Press) features what ...
- Adhesive Offers High Performance
- (Adhesives)
- January 31, 2011, ... emulsion for the coating and laminating industries. Company says adhesive provides high adhesion to low-energy surfaces while maintaining high cohesive strength; has excellent cohesion along with resistance ...
- Coatings Equal Foil Brilliance
- (Magazine)
- January 31, 2011, Mirafoil coatings are a fully recyclable, UV-curable alternative to foil board laminating and hot foil stamping, said to be equally brilliant to foil. Mirafoil coatings are a fully recyclable, UV-curable ...
- ICE-ing | The Best Part
- (Trends/Management)
- January 31, 2011, ... feature a final 12 sessions covering such subject matter as web cleanliness, slitting, inspection, emissions issues, color measurement, monitoring pressure-sensitive adhesives, and energy curable acrylates ...
- Coating Matters: Don't Blame Chatter on Coating Hea
- (Coating/Laminating)
- January 31, 2011, ... energy source. I hope this has provided an example of how coating is an interactive process. For the coating defect of chatter, even though the fluid meets the substrate at the coating head, the main ...