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Reporter Clips

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January 30, 2006, ... current production facility in Shanghai will close. Explains Raflatac president Heikki Pikkarainen, “We expect the demand for pressure-sensitive label stock in China to grow strongly in the coming years, ...

Protecting Brands

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January 30, 2006, The familiar pressure-sensitive label offers some practical approaches that converters can offer brand owners to secure the integrity of their products—by using a familiar "carrier" mechanism. Part 1 ...

Trends & Technical Solutions

(Archive)

December 30, 2005, Filmic release liners are used in many pressure-sensitive applications today. The market for filmic release liners is growing at a rate of 10%/yr, fueled in part by the emergence of premium applications ...

Reporter Clips

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December 30, 2005, Narrow web news from: Digital Labels, Lowry Computer Products, and Raflatac. Narrow Web Converting Industry News Press Cures Growing Pains TURATE, ITALY—Digital Labels, Amman, Jordan, is the proud ...

The Digital Demand

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December 30, 2005, ... press prints on a range of substrates, paper or filmic, pressure-sensitive or non-supported. Compatible materials include self-adhesive papers, synthetic (including polyethylene, polyethylene terephthalate, ...

Blurring the Lines

(Archive)

November 29, 2005, ... beyond their traditional markets. For example, many narrow web converters have found lucrative niches by going, say, from solely converting pressure-sensitive labels to producing small folding cartons ...

A Perfect Match

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November 29, 2005, Macaran proofs color labels directly on flexo substrates with Latran's Prediction. Digital Proofing Macaran Printed Products prints high quality flexographic labels on a broad range of pressure-sensitive ...

A Quality Standard

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October 30, 2005, ... but to satisfy the current and expanding needs of our existing customers.” Quick Turnarounds, More Volume Established in 1993, Valdese Packaging & Label specializes in textile packaging, pressure-sensitive ...

Reporter Clips

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September 29, 2005, Narrow web converting industry news from: Fernqvist Labeling Solutions, Scapa Medical, Western States Envelope, Avery Dennison RFID, and Texas Instruments. Narrow Web Converting Industry News Digital ...

Mastering RFID

(Archive)

September 29, 2005, ... a plastic substrate, usually PET. The RFID chip houses the data with the product- related information. These components then are placed onto either a pressure-sensitive label stock or film carrier material ...

Reporter Clips

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August 30, 2005, ... Douglas Weiss, Ph.D, 3M, receives the 2005 Carl Dahlquist Award from the Pressure-Sensitive Tape Council, Northbrook, IL. The award is presented to one speaker at each annual technical conference who demonstrates, ...

Converting Industry News

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August 30, 2005, ... Sealants, “...Both companies will work jointly to help formulators and converters in pressure-sensitive adhesives and caulks applications assess and implement these solutions as high-performance and cost-effective ...

Converting Industry News

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July 30, 2005, ... in pressure-sensitive adhesives and caulks applications to assess and implement these solutions as high-performance and cost-effective alternatives to solvent-based products.” The two companies collaborated ...

Reporter Clips

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May 30, 2005, ... and owner of Geo, says, "Our focus is on pressure-sensitive labels for supermarkets. In that business, we must respond quickly and deliver excellent quality. The Instaprep allows us to streamline our changeover ...

Reporter Clips

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April 29, 2005, News from: MACtac, label converters at TLMI, and Mesirow Financial. Narrow Web Converting Industry News PSA materials supplier MACtac, Stow, OH, supplied the self-adhesive construction for the 170 ...

A King of Shrink Contender

(Flexpack)

March 30, 2005, ... a big difference. For just a little bit more than it costs to produce standard pressure-sensitive labels on a press," Seuss says, "you can produce [on the Comco press] a label for the whole container—and ...

Waste Trimmed Away!

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February 27, 2005, ... 10,000–15,000-sq-ft building.) Politics and P-S Labels & Systems specializes in pressure-sensitive labels and non-p-s tags in sheets and rolls. Products include packaging labels for jars, cans, and ...

Film Opens New Markets

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February 27, 2005, Since pressure-sensitive labels and tapes—and other materials such as stamps—have become more sophisticated, the market for these materials has been expanding rapidly. In such product constructions, it ...

E-Clips Top 10

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January 30, 2005, Read on to see the materials and products that most captured our readers’ attention last year, based on the click-through response they generated in our E-Clips e-mail newsletter. Readers’ Choice Narrow ...

Reporter Clips

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January 30, 2005, Narrow web news from: Freedonia Group, TLMI, Sato America, MPI Label Systems, MACtac, Printex Packaging Corp., XericWeb Drying Systems, and Appleton. Narrow Web Converting Industry News XericWeb Acquires ...