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Riding the Rails

(Web Handling)

March 31, 2010, ... the load to shift off the pallet or tilt,” says slitter/shipping superintendent Jeff Klima. “We knew we had to do something quickly,” says Todd Keckhaver, scheduling and planning manager. “There were ...

AIMCAL Awards

(Coating/Laminating)

March 21, 2010, ... reduce materials requirements because of the lamination of 18-pt uncoated recycled board reinforcement strips to load-bearing areas of the CCSUS. The thinner Z-Flute carton doubles the number of multipacks ...

Flexible Packaging: Narrow Web's Leverag

(Flexpack)

March 21, 2010, ... extensions are opportunities for meeting the needs of today's fast-paced lifestyles. Everything from suitcases and lunch boxes to cars and hotel rooms are filled with portable packages. It's all about products ...

Coating & Laminating Special Report Outlines Flex-Pack Market Opportunities

(Special Reports)

March 09, 2010, ... on an area basis flexible packaging... Technical Report: Thin Coating Challenges Feb 1, 2010 12:00 PM, By Edward D. Cohen, Edward D. Cohen Consulting Inc. A major trend in the development of new ...

Flexible Packaging: Capital Commitments

(Flexpack)

February 28, 2010, ... to register, it reads the plate and compares the plate that we plan to print with the image approved by the customer. It will tell us if it doesn't match and something's wrong,” says Imburgia. Packaging ...

Click To Pick

(New Products)

February 28, 2010, ... motor technology for print deck movement as well as printing cylinder and anilox roller positioning. Provides precision positioning within 0.1 micron, reduced dot gain, and reduced print overpressure. ...

Keep Moving Forward

(Editorial)

February 28, 2010, ... the Disney-Pixar name — and in which Walt obviously had no hand — inspire many to keep moving forward. “Keep moving forward,” I like to think, is perhaps the single piece of advice that represented ...

Nonwovens Converting: H1N1 Antidote

(Substrates)

January 31, 2010, ... that offered more protection than anything else out there.” ProVent 10,000 customers include the Centers for Disease Control, National Institutes of Health, and orthopedic surgeons and nurses around ...

Flex-Pack = Opportunity

(Extrusion Coating)

January 31, 2010, ... manufacturing base and in terms of increased costs. Industry Consolidation Consolidation — especially within the flexible packaging segment — continues to change the face of the extrusion coating industry; ...

Yerecic Label Installs 12-Color Mark Andy Performance Series Press

(News | New Products)

January 24, 2010, ... quick changeovers and print capabilities, the company reports. The P7 is also equipped to allow Yerecic to expand its product lines into thin unsupported films and is fully upgradeable to accommodate future ...

Paper or Plastic?

(Archive)

November 30, 2009, ... the industry's future. He highlighted waste management as a critical item. But, he said, this is particularly a challenge because “everything we do in relation to the sustainability issue comes back to ...

Expo News Raises Eyebrows

(Editorial)

November 30, 2009, ... SPI to contain costs. And now a personal request, dear Readers…Suzanne Zaccone, a dear friend who comes from within our own converter ranks as the executive vice-chairman and former president and co-owner ...

Do It Yourself

(Adhesives)

November 30, 2009, ... with regulatory affairs as they continue to change rapidly, both domestically and abroad, as well as doing things that improve one's image from a sustainability standpoint,” notes Ragin, citing such issues ...

Experience Speaks: Lisa M. Trajkovich

(Experience Speaks)

November 30, 2009, ... Protect-all is in a somewhat remote area of southern Wisconsin, so the immediate candidate pool is rather small. The management team is very hands-on with all aspects of the company, which I think helps ...

CMM Sold to Mack Brooks Exhibitions

(Yo's Yarns)

November 16, 2009, ... confirmed the deal was completed on Friday, November 13, to allow MBE to have time to set things in place before the 24th. It was promised that all will be revealed on the 24th, so stay tuned HERE! So ...

CMM Sold to Mack Brooks Exhibitions

(News | New Products)

November 16, 2009, Pennwell Corp. has announced that its CMM Converting Machinery/Materials Conference & Exhibition has been sold to Mack Brooks Exhibitions (MBE) TULSA, OK | Pennwell Corp. has announced that its CMM Converting ...

FPI Says Green Packaging Trend To Grow in Demand

(News | New Products)

November 08, 2009, ... Two sections report on what members think are trends in four key areas and on what FPI believes are the top three trends in foodservice packaging. Findings indicate "green" has not only garnered a place ...

Critical Trends Face-Off

(Trends/Management)

October 31, 2009, Exclusive PFFC research analyses critical issues within each of four major converting industry sectors. Selling Prices versus Pre-Tax Profitability | In 2008, selling prices increased across all converting ...

Cores | The Foundation of Winding

(Web Lines)

October 31, 2009, ... and “Cinching: Belt Tightening Gone Bad, Part 2”). However, some core compression isn't necessarily a bad thing. If the core doesn't give a little, core pressures will be many times the pressure elsewhere ...

Static, Be Gone!

(Static-Beat)

October 31, 2009, ... resistivity, we need the roller charge to dissipate within one revolution. Taking the dissipation time to be 3τ so that 95% of the charge will have dissipated results in Equation 2. And solving for ...