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ALCAT Italy opens its doors for an open house

(News | New Products)

March 23, 2008, ALCAT SRL will open its doors to all customers and organize an Open House again ALCAT SRL will open its doors to all customers and organize an Open House again. This periodical customer event is very popular ...

Metal Is in the Mix

(Metallizing)

February 29, 2008, ... and prints like paper. Replacing tokens, the Metro Day Pass features fluorescent inks while the Transfer Pass uses lower cost solid inks that resemble the Day Pass. The passes are so popular, they've ...

Flexo Forum and Exhibit Are Approaching

(News Clips Archive)

February 29, 2008, ... Assn. (FTA) will hold its 2008 Annual Forum April 27-30 at the Hilton Anatole Hotel in Dallas, TX, combining ten information sessions, the popular INFO*FLEX exhibition, and a celebration of FTA's 50th anniversary. ...

Demographic Demands

(Flexpack)

February 29, 2008, ... inelastic demand patterns, tending to avoid severe downturns in recessionary times. Consumption is based largely on population growth, demographic changes, and consumer buying and pricing trends. Materials ...

What's New Product

(New Products)

February 29, 2008, ... www.applied-motion.com PFFC-ASAP 404 Paperboard Is Recycled, Offers Stability StaSquare 32 recycled paperboard grade is used in the manufacture of POP displays and more. Said to offer sheet profile ...

Eco Additions

(Carton Box)

February 29, 2008, ... Flip-Pak's slide-out design eliminates the plastic hub and has a pop-up mechanism that presents the disc when the package is opened. Both options are made from third-party-certified, renewable virgin paperboard ...

Packaging Press Is Online

(Offset)

February 29, 2008, MARYLAND HTS., MO Quest Graphics calls itself a general commercial printer, but the 30-year-old Missouri company's markets include packaging, POP, and MARYLAND HTS., MO Quest Graphics calls itself a general ...

Debating China's Effect on the Environmen

(Green Converting)

February 29, 2008, ... massive overlogging. Vaitheeswaran said we must remember that one-third of the world's population is rising out of unimaginable poverty, and it's happening in our lifetime. These so-called environmental ...

One Step Ahead

(Label/Tape)

February 29, 2008, ... of today's discriminating customers. As new items pop up on store shelves at an astounding pace, it becomes increasingly difficult to catch a customer's eye in a supermarket or big-box store. Some of the ...

Barrier Wanted

(Coating/Laminating)

January 31, 2008, ... segment, with about 69% of materials usage (see figure on p32). Here the main drivers are the need for barrier performance for clear and opaque vacuum-coated films, coupled with the popular, high-impact ...

Drupa Sessions Will Point the Way

(Magazine)

December 31, 2007, CHICAGO, IL The popular concept of certainly will be featured at drupa 2008, and not just in the machinery exhibited. The event, to be held May 29-June CHICAGO, IL The popular concept of “modularity” ...

Carton & Box Reporter

(Magazine)

November 30, 2007, ... in 3-D space. The result was a package design that fit the radome precisely. It passed the shipping test conducted by customer.” A Promo That Pops 3 In creating this entry in the Best Corrugated Self-Promotion ...

Find the Best Digital Paper from Mohawk

(Archive)

November 19, 2007, Mohawk Fine Papers has released a new Digital Guide to enable printers, designers, and other specifiers to see instantly the full range of Mohawk's 300+ papers optimized to provide offset-quality across ...

SVC Plans TechCon 2008

(Archive)

November 18, 2007, The 2008 of the Society of Vacuum Cleaners' (SVC) 51st TechCon will take place April 21-22, in Chicago. The program will address a number of technological breakthroughs and point to the most important, ...

Mohawk Updates Guide for Sustainable Paper Choices

(Archive)

October 28, 2007, Mohawk Fine Papers has reissued its popular print buyers guide, "Sense and Sustainability." First issued in 2005 as part of the "Ask Mohawk" series, "Sense and Sustainability" contains practical information ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

September 30, 2007, ... Capran Medallion film, effective August 1. Prices will increase 10 cents/lb or as contracts allow. Durst Image Technology, Rochester, NY, enters into an agreement with Tubelite Co., Apopka, FL, to sell ...

FIRST GLANCE

(Magazine)

August 31, 2007, ... material; and package features a water-based heat seal coating. Company says edge-to-edge graphics provide marketing “pop.” Very Cool Pro-fax EP390S high-impact PP copolymer (opaque) resin from ...

Scoring the Scorecard

(Magazine)

August 31, 2007, ... notes, for example, that the flexible packaging for beef jerky, one of Wal-Mart’s most popular items, is composed of as many as seven different layers of raw materials, yet the scorecard only permits the ...

Be A Good Citizen

(Magazine)

August 31, 2007, ... pallets have been reused for 17 years. Shaver says Greenpak is able to do so because of its three strategically located plants, which are within a day’s drive of 70% of the US population. These facilities ...

News Clips

(Magazine)

August 31, 2007, ... no one believes price will not continue to be an issue, and no one expects Wal-Mart to drop a popular product, regardless of its score. The assumption is that other things being equal, the scorecard rating ...