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Q&A Roundtable | How The Pouch/Bag Making Market Is Evolving

(Bag Pouch)

May 10, 2018, ... to make pouches with non-laminated structures. They are reporting that the operating window on these structures is significantly narrower than what they’re used to. So, for the pouch machine, production ...

Coating Matters | Advances in Slot Die Technology for Hot Melt Adhesives, Part 2

(Coating Matters)

May 07, 2018, ... to not place undue forces on the polymer melt but narrow enough to distribute the flow evenly across the width of coating. The lip opening is the most powerful variable in coating because it is the only ...

Flexo Printing | FTA Honors 2018's Top Print Job

(Print)

May 06, 2018, ... in the narrow web category                           Visual Communication Tech on behalf of Proactive Packaging & Display for the BJ’s Restaurant & Brewhouse Carton in the ...

X-Rite & Flint Group Announce Global Partnership

(News | New Products)

April 29, 2018, VIVO Colour Solutions, supported by Flint’s Global Colour Centre, uses X-Rite’s eXact device to provide a central web-based digital color repository ROGERS, MN | Flint Group reports that its Paper & ...

FINAT Technical Seminar Ranges Widely

(Label/Tape)

April 25, 2018, ... self-adhesive multi-layer peel-and-read labels and their construction, and going into flexible packaging and sleeves’ on narrow web presses, alongside traditional self-adhesive labels. Also coveredi ...

Coating Matters | Advances in Slot Die Technology for Hot Melt Adhesives, Part 1

(Coating/Laminating)

April 24, 2018, ... lip faces are 1-2 times the coating thickness from the substrate, allow the slot die to operate without forming the edge bead and neck-in associated with extrusion coating. However, with the narrow gaps ...

Show Preview | INFOFLEX 2018 Collocates with Forum in Indianapolis

(Trade Shows)

April 15, 2018, ... in converting, narrow web, flexible packaging, hybrid technology, corrugated direct print, and premedia technologies. 15 sessions will be held over two days at the end of the 600 aisle—directly across ...

Grafikontrol to Show Press Controls

(News | New Products)

April 14, 2018, ... the operator with the ability to verify if the print matches with the original file. LYNEX-S: This 100% print inspection system for gravure, flexo, offset is dedicated to narrow web and neutral film ...

GOEBEL IMS to Show Slitters at Chinaplas

(News | New Products)

March 27, 2018, ... to the ultra-light dancer roller ensuring constant web tension even at high speeds. INTERSLIT allows for the production of narrow rolls, starting from a minimum slitting width of 180 mm. The INTERSLIT ...

TLMI Asks for 2018 Competition Entries

(Label/Tape)

March 24, 2018, ... innovative printing and to recognize technical achievement in all areas of the narrow web industry, including tags and labels, cartons, flexible packaging, nonwoven pressure-sensitives, and more. The competition ...

TRESU Launches Doctor Blade

(News | New Products)

March 18, 2018, The FlexiPrint Reservoir SAVEink chamber doctor blade is said to enhance process efficiency in narrow web flexo printing KOLDING DENMARK | TRESU announces the introduction of its FlexiPrint Reservoir ...

Double E Company Acquires Convertech

(News | New Products)

March 13, 2018, ... web handling components to the narrow web industry, including air shafts in a full range of sizes, orientations, and gripping methods, joins Appleton Manufacturing, Epoch Industries, and Double E Europe ...

SPGPrints Offers One-Step Developer

(News | New Products)

January 24, 2018, ... & Dry system, which reportedly provides a fast, ergonomic, and automated means of developing and drying RotaPlate nickel rotary screens, for narrow web applications, in a one-step, quality-assured process.  ...

Vetaphone Offers Guide to Surface Treatment

(News | New Products)

January 21, 2018, Vetaphone CEO Frank Eisby separates surface treatment into three sections and talks about the changing face of the process for narrow web converters KOLDING, DENMARK | Vetaphone, manufacturer of corona ...

Flint Opens Facility in Turkey

(News | New Products)

December 10, 2017, ... one location. Today, Flint Group’s Narrow Web, Sheetfed, and Digital Solutions (Xeikon) businesses have joined Paper & Board in this single facility.” Melander continues, “Flint Group’s aim is, of course, ...

TLMI Announces Committee Summit

(Label/Tape)

December 09, 2017, ... truly meaningful meetings where committee members brainstorm together and map out ways that TLMI can continue to serve as the primary resource, and industry association, in the North American narrow web ...

Tangent Shear Slitting | Reduce Edge Defects in Shrink Sleeve Film

(Slit)

December 04, 2017, ... Too narrow of a blade may result in reduced blade life and diminished slit quality. Figure 10. In Figure 10, you see typical blade profiles for tangent shear slitting. They range from nearly square ...

Xeikon and EFI Report Partnership

(News | New Products)

November 05, 2017, In a strategic partnership, Xeikon will provide sales, service, and support for the EFI Jetrion narrow web inkjet systems FREMONT, CA, and EEDE, THE NETHERLANDS | Electronics for Imaging (EFI) and ...

Medical Patches | Faustel Meets Challenge of Hydrogel Pad Production

(Coating/Laminating)

October 23, 2017, ... the scrim web required its own handling challenges, Gely pointed out. “Too much tension would stretch this nonwoven mesh-type material causing it to ‘neck down.’ This narrowed our operating window for ...

TLMI Awards | ASL Print FX Takes Best of Show for Whiskey Label

(Label/Tape)

October 19, 2017, ... 8-11, 2017. The competition aims to stimulate innovative printing and to recognize technical achievement in all areas of the narrow web industry, including tags and labels, cartons, flexible packaging, ...