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Three Ink Market Trends Helping to Achieve Sustainability Goals

(Inks/Coatings/Primers)

April 16, 2020, ... inks based on renewable natural resources and new eco-friendly materials can play a key role in the creation of a sustainable package. It is important that claims of bio-renewable materials are verified ...

PFFC’s Companies to Watch

(Flexpack)

April 09, 2020, ... and Carl Joachim, all with different backgrounds, that somehow came together in 2013 and landed on the same vision - to build a disruptive flexible packaging company, based on digital printing. They saw ...

Metallized Packaging Advancements From Terphane

(News | New Products)

April 06, 2020, ... of the U.S., with leading categories including tomato-based products, powdered milk, soups and coffee, particularly with stand up pouches. “The transition of rigid packages into flexible packaging provides ...

BOBST Joins CEFLEX

(News | New Products)

March 25, 2020, ... better system solutions identified through the collaboration of companies representing the entire value chain. A circular economy is based on the principles of designing out waste and pollution from ...

Stronger Together: Davis-Standard and Deacro Converting Systems

(Equipment/Machines - Converting)

March 08, 2020, ... portfolio of high-performance slitting, rewinding and roll handling equipment for a wide range of web-based applications such as film and flexible packaging. This coupled with Davis-Standard’s extrusion ...

Synrad Sheds Light on Converting Applications

(Equipment/Machines - Converting)

March 05, 2020, ... and design files are digital, and can be saved as a baseline for future projects or materials. For initial installation of laser equipment, laser systems (combined laser and scan head assemblies) minimize ...

A New Generation of Hybrid Drive Technology

(Digital)

March 05, 2020, ... materials. A combination of continuous & vector drive technology – in re-registration mode – allows format independent converting by the use of a single tool circumference. The RSM-DIGI-VARICUT is based ...

Leaders in Sustainability

(Equipment/Machines - Converting)

March 05, 2020, ...  The SA-V can run with all laminated or coextruded materials with PP or PE sealing base, both printed and unprinted, granting high performances and high sealing strength; it is available in four sealing ...

Spinnaker Coating Shows Growth with GripTight™ and SureLock™ Adhesives

(News | New Products)

March 02, 2020, ... paper and film products for the printing industry, is reportedly experiencing renewed growth with its GripTight™ and SureLock™ specialty adhesives. GripTight is an aggressive, hot melt rubber-based adhesive ...

Is it the End for Non-Recyclable Plastic Packaging?

(Flexpack)

March 02, 2020, ... step in the production chain, Brückner Maschinenbau for the production of the biaxial stretched polypropylene and polyolefin-based films, Hosokawa Alpine for the production of MDO linear density polyethylene ...

State of the Industry Report

(Nonwovens)

March 01, 2020, ... Michael M. D’Angelo, president of the AICC, The Independent Packaging Association, who gave his insights on how the corrugated, folding carton, rigid boxes and other paper-based packaging market is thriving ...

Pregis Joins CEFLEX to Further European Flexible Packaging Sustainability Efforts

(News | New Products)

February 24, 2020, ... has also partnered with How2Recycle® to provide consumer-friendly recycling instructions printed onto film-based products to increase adoption. Pregis also teaches customers how to prevent damage through ...

Multi-Solution Approach Key to Achieving Sustainability Goals

(Extrusion Coating)

February 24, 2020, The extrusion coating market is growing as global brand owners continue to choose aseptic cartons, stand-up pouches and paper-based flexible packaging formats over glass, metal and rigid containers. By ...

Roundtable Q&A: Slitting, Winding & Unwinding

(Slit)

February 16, 2020, ... evolving based on customer feedback? Pappas: Today’s control systems are a lot more powerful than they were a decade ago. It is the heart of the machine and allows us to do high-level functions that ...

NOW Plastics Packaging Solutions Put Environmental Protection First

(Flexpack)

February 04, 2020, ... in the following categories: Post-Consumer Recycled content (PCR) films (PET, BOPA, PE, etc.); Film structures for making packaging recyclable; Bio-based/sustainable sources for raw materials/resins; ...

Primera Announces LX610 Color Label Printer with Built-In Digital Die Cutting™

(News | New Products)

February 04, 2020, ... before ordering expensive hard-tooled or flexible dies. Inks and Substrates With LX610, two different types of ink and a wide variety of substrates are available. Dye-based ink prints bright and vibrant ...

SÜDPACK Announces its Multi SV Skin is Cyclos-Certified

(News | New Products)

February 02, 2020, ... packaging film concept, combining a Skin Multi SV top film (150 µm) and base film Ecoterm VP (250 µm). Accordingly, SÜDPACK customers can now take advantage of a combined top foil / base foil skin packaging ...

4 Steps to Resolving Coating Defects

(News | New Products)

February 02, 2020, ... The remaining four areas are based off of true understanding of what you are seeing.  A good example of this is when a coating streak occurred in a process I was involved with.  Initially the thought ...

T&L Graphic Systems Chooses the KODAK FLEXCEL NX System from Miraclon

(News | New Products)

January 29, 2020, ... Illinois-based converter to gain better pressroom control and savings, but substantially improve the quality of print it can deliver while making the majority of difficult jobs and problems a thing of ...

The Back Page: The American Paper Converter April 1946

(News | New Products)

January 26, 2020, ... than plywood. At Process Arts Company of Los Angeles, Cal., transparent Plastiglaze is now being used in the manufacture of novel paper and plaster lamps.  The bases of the lamps are plaster casts which ...