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Cardboard Bottle from Ecologic Brands Wins Green Award

(Green Converting)

December 05, 2011, ... cardboard boxes and 30% old newspapers) with a thin, fully recyclable interior pouch. The outer shell has been certified by Soil Control Labs to be compostable per ASTM 6868 standards. The company says ...

Sheeter Allows Production of Preprinted Holographic Material

(Sheeting)

December 04, 2011, ... marks embedded in the holographic web is combined with a sophisticated motion control program governing the positioning of the cross cut to maintain tolerances to within +0.006 in. (0.15 mm) of the registration ...

K 2013 Will Show How Plastics Move the World

(Flexpack)

December 03, 2011, ... Fair – No. 1 for Plastics and Rubber Worldwide, comes to the Fairgrounds in Düsseldorf, Germany, October 16 - 23, 2013. Among the attractions will be a show within a show entitled “Plastics Move the World,” ...

Slot Die Coating | The Pressure Is On

(Adhesive Coating)

December 01, 2011, ... thin, and precise converting operations, a customized coating system is necessary to have a technical edge. Building the system from the material up to the process sets the stage for a high precision tool ...

Release Liner Market: Growth Projected, but Threats Remain

(Label/Tape)

November 10, 2011, ... release base. Wherever they are used, PET film liners are now thinner than ever, and they present practical challenges for press minders in many areas, including die-cutting, web tensioning (http://pffc-online.com/web_handling/tension/), ...

Some Thoughts on Purging

(Tom’s Poly Ploys)

November 09, 2011, A reader asked for some information on purging LDPE in his twin screw extrusion process. By and large, the screws within a twin screw extruder are “self-wiping” due to the close contact between elements ...

P-S Labels Are the Subject of a New AWA Report

(News | New Products)

November 08, 2011, ... Technology Review 2011. The report presents the status of the global p-s label market, materials, and technologies, emphasizing the changing structure and trends within this business area. It discusses ...

Web Lines: Take the Laminator Quiz

(Coating/Laminating)

October 16, 2011, ... laminator design?" I always love these simple questions that open up a giant can of worms. There are many things I like and do not like in laminator design. To see where your laminator ranks relative to ...

Coating Matters: How To Avoid Bubble Defects

(Coating Matters)

October 10, 2011, ... and air entrapment. These very similar words have very different causes. Air Entrainment Air that is introduced into the fluid prior to the coating head is entrained. I remember the term by thinking ...

Web Handling: Top 7 Causes of Wrinkles

(Web Handling)

October 09, 2011, ... your desired productivity and quality goals. Machine misalignment leads to roll misalignment. 1. Poor Machine Alignment Machine alignment is the first thing to check when experiencing web ...

Inspection: Lighting the Way

(Controls)

August 21, 2011, ... within the press and be able to communicate with slitter/rewinder equipment for fast, efficient marking and removal of defective roll material. Finally, a system must collect and store performance data ...

PCR Milked for Flex-Pack

(Flexpack)

August 21, 2011, Consumer demands to preserve the environment is a trend Hood Packaging takes seriously. The biggest challenge is simultaneously keeping upcharges for more sustainable converted products within reason Consumer ...

Digital Printing: Digital Meets Demands

(Digital)

August 16, 2011, When John Roberds and his partner started Odyssey Digital Printing, Tulsa, OK, in 1996, he says, "We would print anything we could get people to pay us to print." With a laugh he adds, "Since then, we'v ...

Green Converting: Landfill Diversion

(Green Converting)

August 16, 2011, ... programs, most of which are in the commercial or institutional sector, so things like college cafeterias, food courts, and the like. Seattle and San Francisco also have residential collection, which adds ...

SVC To Explore Future Innovation at Annual Symposia

(News | New Products)

August 10, 2011, ... for presenting at the TechCon event, abstracts on the following technical subject matter are being accepted: • “Lab to Fab” Vacuum thin Film Manufacturing Processes • New Materials and Processes for ...

Package Design: Make an Impact

(Flexpack)

July 31, 2011, ...  Labeling Solutions Div., Wyman's had been thinking about expanding its juice lines and was considering moving to shrink sleeves as a labeling option. “They weren't sold on shrink until mid-2009, and the ...

Meeting Efficiency Challenge

(Trends/Management)

July 31, 2011, ... Kefalos, global supply chain manager for ExxonMobil, in a webinar hosted by the Tag & Label Mfrs. Inst. on July 28 for its members. Perhaps nothing truer has ever been said — particularly in the volatile ...

Surface Energy Matchmaking

(Coating/Laminating)

July 31, 2011, ... technical terms, the fluid and substrate both have an inherent amount of energy exhibited at the surface where they come into contact. If the energy within the fluid is high relative to the substrate, ...

UFLEX Expands in Egypt & Poland

(Coating/Laminating)

July 31, 2011, ... oxide coater, dubbed ALOX, on October 6 near Cairo, Egypt, where a 12,000 million tons/yr CPP line already has started up. The ALOX coater will apply a thin, highly transparent coating of aluminium oxide ...

Education Training: School's in Sessio

(Trends/Management)

July 31, 2011, ... example, if they have 20 operators who need to understand more about extrusion, we could set up something online for them.” Webinars that bring industry suppliers into the “classroom” are offered once ...