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Chemicals & Responsibility

(Magazine)

November 29, 2004, ... pollute the air, ground, and water with hazardous materials. Many years ago I witnessed a company in the converting and packaging industry disposing of inks, adhesives, and solvents by dumping them into ...

Reporter Clips

(Magazine)

November 29, 2004, ... Eureka, MO, received TLMI’s Supplier of the Year award for his active participation in the association and the tag and label industry. As chair of the awards committee, Lee then announced the winning entries ...

Converting Industry News, Part 1

(Magazine)

November 29, 2004, ... long-term growth opportunities of RFID," reports Avery Dennison chairman and CEO Philip M. Neal. "We see our emerging RFID business as [our] largest long-term growth opportunity." Page 1 | Part 2 ...

Slitting Debris: Cracking the Case

(Magazine)

October 30, 2004, ... knives and arbitrary geometry, shear slitting can be a debris factory. Worse yet, shear slitting can create angle hair (long strings of skived material) and double cuts. Shear also can be the cleanest, ...

Pilot Line

(Magazine)

October 30, 2004, ... for coating, lacquering and laminating various substrates. The air flotation dryer includes four sections of 3 m each with a maximum temperature of 662 deg F. A UV curing unit from Fusion is located after ...

Converting Industry News

(Archive)

October 30, 2004, ...  RESCALDINA, ITALY—Rossini SpA celebrated 75 years in business during Drupa 2004. Three generations of family entrepreneurs joined guests at a dinner, during which chairman Felice Rossini talked about ...

Food & Packaging Enjoy!

(Magazine)

September 29, 2004, ... proper food packaging, illness from tainted or spoiled food could be rampant. Meat will spoil without protection when exposed to oxygen. Dairy products can become sour without optimum protection. Almost ...

Lasers Beam

(Magazine)

September 29, 2004, ... by fairly narrow peaks. Consequently, a small change in laser wavelength can result in a huge change in absorption. Specifically, by matching the laser wavelength to an absorption peak in the target film ...

Superfund Exempt Liability

(Magazine)

September 29, 2004, ... of environmentally impaired property must understand the new site assessment requirements and conform pre-acquisition due diligence to the standards and practices prescribed in the AAI rule to preserve ...

People & Places

(Magazine)

September 29, 2004, ... Equipment, Keystone Aniline Corp., Lüscher Flexo, New England Extrusion, Nexpress Solutions, Orion Packaging Systems, PCMC, Phoenix Challenge Foundation, PMMI, Praxair Surface Technologies, Precisia, ...

A Communication from the PLACE Div. of TAPPI

(Magazine)

September 29, 2004, ... University. He has published several technical papers and articles on atmospheric plasma. For the 2003 TAPPI PLACE Division Conference, he developed and chaired the “Converter Spotlight” and “Accelerating ...

Products, Part 2

(Magazine)

September 29, 2004, ... transformer defects, shorts in the system, need to clean the bar, etc. PFFC-ASAP 426 New Service Maintenance Tool Fischer & Krecke, Fairfield, NJ, USA; 973/882-9460; fischer-krecke.biz Flexpress ...

Former Mark Andy VP Dale Bunnell Named R. Stanton Avery Lifetime Achievement Award Winner

(Archive)

September 23, 2004, ... Bunnell was a co-founder and one-time chairman of the World Label Association, an organization that cooperates with FINAT, TLMI, and the Japanese Federation of Label Printers. Adds Mark Andy president ...

The 411 on RFID, Part 2

(Archive)

August 30, 2004, ... air better than other semiconductor liquids and also exhibits self-assembling properties. Ong's team has now found a way to take the polythiophene semiconductor and process it into a liquid that can ...

A Problem Solver's Solutio

(Flexpack)

August 30, 2004, ... R&D department. “[Though our research and development team] is fairly small,” says Biddle, “we have the right people staffing it. That's always been our strength — because when [a customer] has problems, ...

The Rx for RH

(Magazine)

August 30, 2004, ... than you think. Converters commonly face heating season problems caused by dry air. These problems include sheet separation, misfeeds, warping and dimensional changes, ink coverage maladies, folding ...

Protecting a Brand

(Archive)

June 29, 2004, ... want to think they’re getting a bargain. But when you start talking about items such as counterfeit airplane parts, brake parts, and electrical products, that bargain may not be a bargain after all.  ...

Keeping Score

(Magazine)

June 29, 2004, ... cited low maintenance costs and “fairly quick changeovers” as other benefits. “First of all, they’re real workhorses,” he explains. “They’re heavy-duty presses. They were very competitive with other ...

Watch for New Overtime Regs

(Magazine)

May 30, 2004, ... has not acted yet. The DOL has advised employers to begin now to update their procedures to ensure they are able to comply with what the DOL has dubbed the “FairPay” rules. Absent Congressional action, ...

Reporter Clips

(Magazine)

May 30, 2004, ... EPC standard using UHF RFID technology. Lehigh Valley Turns to Shrink Labels FARMINGDALE, NY, USA—Lehigh Valley Dairy Farms is using high-shrink film bands from Seal-It to relaunch its entire line ...