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Partners Join Forces To Develop RGB Printing for Packaging

(Carton Box)

March 25, 2018, ... and ideas for innovative packaging based on our new technology.” RGB printing does not compete with CMYK. It rather offers packaging designers and printers unprecedented liberty for creating truly outstanding ...

AIMCAL Awards | Holographic Carton, Metallized Film Are Winners

(Coating/Laminating)

March 21, 2018, ... commented one member of the panel. “This is really classy and clearly unusual in terms of the combination of technologies used and in the potential for other applications such as paper-based gift cards.” ...

European Bioplastics Talks About EU Legislation

(News | New Products)

March 21, 2018, ... representing the interests of the bioplastics industry along the entire value chain, the new legislation acknowledges that bio-based feedstock for plastic packaging as well as compostable plastics for ...

Bio4Pack, Futamura Collaborate on Compostable Snack Package

(Bag Pouch)

March 13, 2018, ... PLA. The bio-based, compostable and plastic-free pack is an environmentally responsible packaging choice with outstanding barrier properties. Futamura sales and marketing manager, Andy Sweetman, said: ...

CCL Acquires Treofan Americas

(Flexpack)

March 09, 2018, ... rights to the Treofan name. Treofan Americas is a producer of biaxially oriented polypropylene film based in Zacapu, Mexico, with capacity of 60,000 tons for specialty applications in consumer packaging ...

Flexible Packaging | PPT Earns Top Prize in FPA Awards

(Flexpack)

March 05, 2018, ... Sunrise Growers frozen fruit pouch is a unique application of HD flexo surface printed rollstock. The polyethylene film manufactured by ProAmpac is designed to provide a strong base for printing, providing ...

Tetra Pak's Fully Renewable Package on Display at Museu

(Carton Box)

March 05, 2018, Tetra Rex Bio-based beverage carton featured at the Museum of Brands in London LUND, SWEDEN | Tetra Pak has now delivered more than half a billion packs of Tetra Rex Bio-based, the world’s first beverage ...

ebeam Technologies Announces Finishing System

(News | New Products)

February 28, 2018, ... offer HP Indigo 20000 users a genuine competitive edge.” Elsa Callini, business development manager at ebeam Technologies, says, “Our ebeam Core 100/760 solution is based on a simple design originated ...

RadTech Issues Agenda for 2018 Event

(News | New Products)

February 27, 2018, ... lineup of presentations—topics include Nestle Compliance, flexo, inkjet, low migration, BPA alternatives, water-based materials, adhesion, and adhesives, the conference reportedly has more educational ...

EFIA Looks at a Flexo Challenge

(News | New Products)

February 20, 2018, ... demise of plastics in the short term, it’s no mean feat to translate chilled and frozen food and drink applications into fiber-based substrates without increased pack design complexity. This will certainly ...

Sticking With It | PSA Acrylics Primer

(Sticking With It)

February 12, 2018, ... insight. Building blocks So, let’s start with some fundamentals. All acrylic PSAs are polymer-based. A polymer can be described as a series of small molecules called monomers that are linked together. ...

Anderson & Vreeland Offers Processing System

(News | New Products)

February 10, 2018, ... press, zoned pre-heating uses short-wave IR (infrared) that heats plates based on the size of plate being made. This approach reportedly reduces energy use and removes the need for a chiller or a condenser, ...

Tactile Coating Delivers Multi-Sensory Packaging for Beer Label

(Label/Tape)

February 05, 2018, ... choices based on how a pack looks, but many don’t realize the power of its effect on their other senses. We wanted to draw attention to the experience of touch by producing a rough, tactile coating for ...

Material Science | The Future of Packaging

(Trends/Management)

February 05, 2018, ... top customer engagement priorities by Boston Retail Partners, seven in ten retailers cited personalization, which can include digital printing and integrated technology. Last year, a smart cloud-based ...

Flex Films Launches Metallized Polyester

(Flexpack)

February 03, 2018, ... metal adhesion or bond strength of >1200 gram-force/in. Dr. Steven J. Sargeant, GM, technology, at Flex Films (USA), says, “The adhesion of metal on BOPET base film is the sum of chemical and mechanical ...

Pop-Up Card Produced on Iggesund Paperboard

(Carton Box)

January 30, 2018, ... is Invercote Creato 260 g/m2 and the advanced technical features include the fir tree’s height relative to the card’s base and the fact that as it is being raised up, the tree’s top must be unfolded by ...

Packaging Trends | Technological Advances Push Holograms Forward

(Carton Box)

January 29, 2018, ... maintain the highest professional, security, and quality standards. Its responsibilities cover the Hologram Image Register, a centrally held database that provides faster online registration and copyright ...

BillerudKorsnäs Launches Medical Paper

(News | New Products)

January 26, 2018, ... as a heat seal coating base, but will also seal peel to selected advanced peelable films without needing a coating. More challenging applications such as large drape and gown packs, spinal needles, IV ...

Freedonia Reports on Foodservice Products

(Flexpack)

January 22, 2018, ... be the general rise in foodservice revenues along with foodservice trends such as the following specialty hot and cold beverages, especially iced and cold brew coffee, along with fruit-based drinks ...

2018 Predictions

(Marketing Mojo)

January 20, 2018, ... should lie in the ability to integrate technology and software into our machine manufacturing; leveraging cloud-based information exchange, asset identification, Bluetooth, and sensor/automation loops ...