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Clear Lam Packaging Wins DuPont Award

(Flexpack)

May 19, 2014, ... need for pre-formed bases, lids, labels, and shrink bands. By combining all components of the finished package in one roll of film, millions of pounds of packaging waste are eliminated. These benefits ...

Is There a Doorman at Your Winder or Do You Let Just Any Web Get In?

(Web Handling)

May 15, 2014, ... driven spindle is for you. There is probably a huge base of converters that can say yes to all of this, but they never seem to call me. I think a winder needs a doorman. Don’t let just any rumpled, staggering, ...

Processing Tips to Prevent Gauge Bands - Part 2

(Tom’s Poly Ploys)

May 12, 2014, ... is an empirical number that I arrived at with experience.  You might arrive at a different minimum screw speed based on your machine, screw design, amount of piping, mixing elements, coex block, die design, ...

Release Liner | Global Suppliers Must Meet Local Needs

(Label/Tape)

May 07, 2014, ...  The changing face of the US paper industry Greg Rudder, editor of US-based PPI Pulp & Paper Week, one of the forest products industry’s leading information sources, looked at how the US paper industry ...

Papermax USA Line Offered in Pastel Colors

(Flexpack)

May 03, 2014, ... blue, gold, buff, salmon and lavender, which is based on Color of the Year for 2014 from Pantone, “Radiant Orchid.” Technical innovations include a smooth surface said to ensure trouble-free performance ...

IPS Provides Flushability Testing

(Flexpack)

May 02, 2014, ... systems and better educate consumers through a universal labeling system.” Based on a Code of Practice directive within INDA’s Flushability Guidelines, if a product fails any test within the seven-step ...

Freedonia Issues Study on Protective Packaging

(News | New Products)

May 01, 2014, ... Group, projects demand in the US will increase 4.5%/yr to $6.4 billion in 2018, an improvement from the 2008–2013 performance based on a strengthening of the economy, including recoveries in the manufacturing ...

Faustel Adds Yokogawa Gauge to Battery Electrode Coating Lines

(Coating/Laminating)

April 20, 2014, ... to meet growing demand.” Modern lithium-ion batteries contain metal foil bases for the anode and cathode, which are thinly and uniformly coated with an electrode coating. Company says the WEBFREX3ES ...

Techkon USA Offers Print Color Control System

(News | New Products)

April 19, 2014, ... as continuous automatic adjustments based on target values throughout the press run. Compatible with most press manufacturers, system connects the prepress room directly to the press using the ink presetting ...

OMNOVA Announces Price Increases

(Materials)

April 12, 2014, Increases cover polyvinyl acetate homopolymer, vinyl acetate, and vinyl acrylic-based emulsions   FAIRLAWN, OH | OMNOVA Solutions’ Performance Materials business recently reported a price increases ...

Stick Pouches | Market Trends to 2017

(Bag Pouch)

April 07, 2014, ... impact of this convenient packaging Named for its shape and known for its convenience, the stick pouch is the subject of a new study from Burnsville, MN-based Allied Development Corp.: Stick Pouches ...

Defects in Coating

(Coating/Laminating)

March 24, 2014, ... develop a database of common defects. Maintaining a sample library with adjoining defect description, operating conditions, incoming raw material data, and elimination procedure will reduce time and improve ...

Nazdar Ink Is for Wide-Format Digital Printers

(News | New Products)

March 22, 2014, The TX650 Series ink is for printing onto paper before being heat transferred onto a wide range of materials   SHAWNEE, KS | Nazdar offer the TX650 Series water-based, dye-sublimation, high-density ...

Business Forms | New Developments in Passport Manufacture

(Adhesives)

March 11, 2014, Australia-based NPA is employing a new system that uses PUR hot melt adhesive and new chip insertion machine Passports are documents that make high demands in terms of forgery protection. The machinery ...

Z-Flute Boxes for Kitty Litter are Purr-fect

(Coating/Laminating)

March 08, 2014, ... paper-based substrates in West Monroe, LA. Toray Plastics (America), North Kingstown, RI, supplied the polyethylene terephthalate (PET) film. The two smaller metallized Composipac Z-Flute cartons consist ...

Wacker Polymers Raises Prices in EMEA and Asia

(News | New Products)

March 08, 2014, Prices of VINNAPAS vinyl acetate-ethylene and VINNOL ethylene-vinyl chloride-based copolymer dispersions go up due to raw material cost increases   MUNICH, GERMANY | Wacker Polymers is to raise its ...

Bemis to Close P-S Plant in Stow

(News | New Products)

March 02, 2014, ... million. The facility, started in 1959, primarily manufactures solvent-based p-s materials. The Stow plant workforce includes approximately 115 employees. The company says it recognizes that these changes ...

Top Five Things To Remember in Fluid Coating

(Coating/Laminating)

February 17, 2014, ... These science-based models can reduce development time and improve performance. Engineers need to make friends with their local statistician. 3. Coating: The coating window is the soul of a coating operation. ...

DuPont Calls for Entries in Competition

(Flexpack)

February 16, 2014, ... global packaging industry is experiencing a transition from disruptive packaging innovation to solutions-based innovation,” says David Luttenberger, CPP, president, David Luttenberger Consulting LLC, who ...

Avery Dennison Matrix Waste Directory Now Includes Canada

(Label/Tape)

February 09, 2014, ... into energy sources. Company says one such source is fuel pellets, which can be a direct substitute for coal but with a lower carbon and overall emissions footprint. The tool is based on company’s own ...