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Menasha Wins 11 OMA Awards

(Carton Box)

June 30, 2011, NEENAH, WI | Menasha Packaging won 11 awards at the 53rd annual POPAI Outstanding Marketing at Retail Achievement (OMA) Awards Competition. Held during NEENAH, WI | Menasha Packaging won 11 awards at the ...

Brand Security Innovations Technical Report: Tamper Evidence

(Print)

June 30, 2011, ...  populations from counterfeits, both in terms of providing physical solutions and meeting the legislative requirements now being implemented. In Europe earlier this year, the EU Falsified Medicines Directiv ...

Holographic Technology: Pattern Pressing

(Print)

June 30, 2011, ... time, dust jackets for books, written by such popular authors as Stephen King, Mary Higgins Clark, and Mary Jane Clark, have utilized the technology for maximum reader appeal, says Wood. He suggests ...

Hot Melt Adhesive Grabs & Holds

(Adhesives)

June 30, 2011, ... pop-opens with high-memory board. High level of performance also offers the potential to switch to lower cost boards that are challenging to seal. H.B. Fuller Co. | 651-236-5900 | www.hbfuller.com ...

Europe Faces Plastic Bag Bans

(Yo's Yarns)

June 21, 2011, ... is not capable to guarantee a proper disposal- and recycling system. With the exclusive permission of so-called biodegradable materials, the message to the population is: “Go on as you did before, just ...

Technical Report: Up & Running

(Slit)

May 31, 2011, ...  The two greatest areas of downtime occur between jobs and between sets. For reducing downtime between jobs, automatic knife placement has become increasingly popular. Available for shear, score, and ...

Interpack 2011 Claimed Most Successful Ever

(Trends/Management News)

May 22, 2011, ... themes INNOVATIONPARC PACKAGING and METAL PACKAGING PLAZA  were also extremely popular. Five different shops—on the themes of Health, Meaning, Aesthetics, Simplicity, and Identity—brought together companies ...

Do You Want Nips with That? Part 2

(Winding Unwinding Rewinding)

April 30, 2011, ... be opened once steady line speed is reached. Q Why are nip rollers a popular choice to create drive roller friction? A Mainly, nips are simple to understand — pinch it, pull it. We can relate to nipped ...

Hooven-Dayton Is a Winner

(Print)

April 30, 2011, ... Awards, and three Bronze Awards in categories including flexo, digital, and POP. The association holds its Print Excellence Awards Competition annually to reward Ohio and Northern Kentucky printers ...

Eco-Sensitive Hybrid

(Carton Box)

April 17, 2011, ... fibers that support a recyclable lightweight plastic pouch inside. When empty, the bottle's shell can be popped open and recycled with other household paper. The #4 plastic pouch and #5 cap go into the ...

'ICE Age' Forecasted for US Converting Industr

(Trends/Management News)

April 11, 2011, ... sessions with three simultaneous tracks on Web Coating/Laminating, Web Handling/Winding, and Package Printing and Converting.  Additionally, CEMA presented two of their most popular fundamental sessions ...

Knock-Out Label

(Label/Tape)

April 04, 2011, ... screen and flexographic combination printing, resulting in a bold, eye-catching design. Mike's popular product line reportedly grew by 23% in 2010. Visit www.spearinc.com. Did you produce a cool converted ...

Web Lines: Would You Like Nips with That?

(Winding Unwinding Rewinding)

March 31, 2011, ... nip rollers a popular choice to create drive roller friction? What are the alternatives to meet driven roller traction needs without nipping? I touched on some of these answers in my January 2008 column, ...

Green Converting: Is IML Sustainable?

(Label/Tape)

February 28, 2011, ... up in sophistication takes us to hot melts and p-s labels, the latter being the largest volume labeling method worldwide. Heat transfer, another popular labeling method, uses heat to transfer the label ...

Flexible Packaging: Eco Innovation

(Flexpack)

February 28, 2011, ... Technologies | Trail's End Classic Caramel Popcorn Packaging Excellence Ampac | Hormel E-Z Zip Pouch Printing Achievement American Packaging Corp. | John Soules Rotisserie Chicken Berry Plastics ...

Green Trends Prevail

(Flexpack)

February 28, 2011, ... populated countries of Western Europe and Japan, with limited landfill space, introduced recycling laws and regulations with different levels of success. In today's Germany — the country that introduced ...

Pouchmaking: The Big Boost

(Bag Pouch)

February 28, 2011, ... the mom-and-pop gourmet food business has grown considerably. Seeing the need for packaging products in small quantities, Patel implemented a Stock Pouch Program to fill that niche. Kleer Pak currently ...

Mark Andy Surpasses 50 Years with Performance Series Press Sales

(Flexography)

February 21, 2011, ... of Mulligan Printing, based out of St. Louis, Missouri. A second P3 has been sold into South Africa, signifying global interest in the most recent model of the popular platform. The P5 model is a servo-driven ...

RFID Label Printer Offered

(Label/Tape RFID)

January 31, 2011, The RX900 on-demand, full-color RFID label printer prints, encodes, verifies, and dispenses labels one at a time. All popular linear and 2D bar code symbologies The RX900 on-demand, full-color RFID label ...

Web Cleaning: To Contact or Not?

(Web Cleaning)

January 31, 2011, ... style of system is probably the least popular among users due to the common design, which typically involves the web being “scrubbed” by a range of brushes. Even if the web is not susceptible to marking, ...