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(News | New Products)

April 11, 2002, ... high-speed digital inkjet press that utilizes UV-curable inks and is designed to print on a variety of substrates used in decorative printing, specialty packaging, and security printing. "The industrial ...

New Products for the Narrow Web Converting Industry

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March 31, 2002, ... price benefits. UV-Curable Ink Suited to Nonporous Uses Xaar plc, Cambridge, England; +44 (0) 1223 423663; xaar.co.uk Developed in conjunction with Avecia for coding and marking applications on nonporous ...

Perhaps It's Time to Redefine Packaging Odor Spec

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November 30, 2001, ... odor specifications. In recent years, with the introduction of water-based and UV-curable inks and coatings, the standard for “low odor” in packaging products needs to be redefined. The “retained solvent” ...

BASF and Heidelberg Announce Alliance

(News | New Products)

November 08, 2001, BASF recently announced its North American Printing Systems group has formed an alliance with Heidelberg Canada Graphic Equipment Ltd. The agreement enables Heidelberg to distribute BASF's line of K+E ...

VOC-Compliant Inks: What State Are They In?

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September 30, 2001, ... 2001, pp. 26-32.] This is a cationic-based, radiation-curable release coating that can be cured by either UV or EB. For some time, printers have been waiting to use UV-curable jet inks. Wait no more. ...

What's New in Narrow We

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August 31, 2001, ...  Hot Melt Adhesive Balances Heat/Cold National Starch and Chemical Co., Bridgewater, NJ; 800/797-4992; nationalstrach.com Cool-Lok 34-252A UV-curable hot melt adhesive is designed for freezer-grade ...

Products

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June 30, 2001, ... Que., Canada; ph: 450/449-0494; fax: 450/449-0492. Argio 75 SC is a 7.5-in.-wide UV digital printing system available for retrofit onto conventional printing presses. System uses UV-curable ink jet inks ...

Wide vs Narrow Web FlexoIt's More Than Just the Widt

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February 28, 2001, ... use of water-based flexographic inks is commonplace. UV-curable flexographic inks have proved to be well-suited particularly to narrow web printing. This technology not only provides environmental compliance ...

Materials

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January 31, 2001, ... it offers excellent finger tack and quick-stick properties. Suitable for manufacturing splicing tapes. UV-Curable Adhesives Bond Well at High Speeds Northwest Coatings Corp., Oak Creek, WI; 414/762-3330; ...

Formulators Look Beyond the Peel, Tack, and Shear Profile

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January 31, 2001, ... a hot melt than you can get using a traditional hot melt. Using a UV-curable system, we can develop formulations that will give us performance comparable to some of the solvent-based materials but not ...

Assessing Inks, Dealing with DigitalThe NPIRI Conference

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December 31, 2000, ... Assessment (CTSA)." She compared solvent-based, water-based, and UV-curable inks on wide web from cost, energy, environmental, and health perspectives. More than 45 formulations were involved. Solvent- ...

Materials

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December 31, 2000, ... and cereal; wrapping for bandages, candy, and gum; and more. UV-Curable Inks Provide Good Flowout Akzo Nobel Inks, Plymouth, MN; 612/559-5911; aninks.com UVOSCREEN II UV-curable screen inks for self-adhesive ...

Think the Ink You're Using Is A No-Brainer? Think Again

(Materials)

December 31, 2000, ... solvent-based, water-based, and UV-curable inks (wide web). One of the findings: "While cost is mainly driven by press speed...at equal speeds, water-based inks had the best economics followed by solvent-based ...

Materials

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November 30, 2000, ... and dye-based inks. Initially, six substrates are available with the topcoating. UV-Curable Adhesive Allows Dieless Process Akzo Nobel Inks Ltd., Langhorne, PA; 215/750-9191; 800/989-4657; aninks.com ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

November 30, 2000, ... of UV-curable laminating adhesives for clear film laminations; developments and advantages of EB cure in laminating adhesives; and a cost comparison of EB adhesive laminations to solventless adhesive laminations. ...

Specialty Products Are Custom Made in the U.K.

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January 31, 2000, ... says Draper, "we added Fusion microwave-excited ultraviolet lamps, and this has allowed us to learn about hot melt technology, and more specifically, about UV-curable, hot melt, p-s adhesives." And last ...

EPA and printers join forces to evaluate inks.

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October 31, 1996, ... 202/260-0178; e-mail: ppic@epa mail.epa.gov; web page: http://es.inel. gov/dfe. Inks: Three ink types will be demonstrated: * solvent-based * water-based * UV-curable Substrates: Each ink ...

A look at the status of UV/EB curing

(Magazine)

June 30, 1996, ... of UV/EB-curable inks has been strong, particularly in the area of flexography, where a number of wide web machines have joined thousands of narrow web presses that have used UV-curable inks and overprint ...

Something new under the sun

(Magazine)

June 30, 1996, ... Available in water-based, oil-based, and solvent-based versions, the ink can be mixed into a UV-curable solution. "The Chamelacolors formula is so stable, it's considered archival. If it were stored in ...

Green Bay gears up for specialty labels

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May 31, 1996, ... station, which is equipped for differential offset gravure coating, applies General Electric UV-curable silicone. The coated film then passes under UV lamps from Fusion UV Curing Systems, Rockville, MD, ...