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Hybrid Inks Have No VOCs

(Inks/Coatings/Primers)

May 31, 2011, TP UV Fusion hybrid inks for 3-piece metal decorating are formulated for indirect food packaging applications that require low-migration and low-odor TP UV Fusion hybrid inks for 3-piece metal decorating ...

Coating Matters: Open Up the Coating Process Window

(Coating/Laminating)

April 30, 2011, ... roll form. More yield equals more money. To maximize yield, you need to know where the coated product is good and where it fails. Pushing the process to its limits and mapping the extent of these variables ...

Coating Matters: Steam-The Cure for Curl

(Surface Prep)

March 31, 2011, ... customers select manufacturers that can produce stable products to lay-flat specifications. Manufacturers of labels and other coated paper products use various solutions to eliminate curl. However, ...

AIMCAL Awards: Canisters Blow Away Competition

(Metallizing)

March 31, 2011, ...  persona with a hologram repeating the Elvis name while communicating integrity and showmanship pizzazz. The wrap consists of 60-ga holographic mPET laminated to 80#, coated-one-side (C1S) litho/label pape ...

AIMCAL Awards: Canisters Blow Away Competition

(Coating/Laminating)

March 17, 2011, Winning entries are recognized for excellence in AIMCAL's annual Vacuum Metallized or Coated Product, Sustainability, and Technology of the Year Competitions During the Assn. of Intl. Metallizers, Coaters ...

Surface Treating: Promoting Adhesion

(Surface Prep)

February 28, 2011, ... films, nylon, vinyl, polyvinyl chloride (PVC), polyethylene terephthalate (PET), foils, coated papers, foams, and many other roll-to-roll substrates benefit from this categorical solution as well. Corona ...

Flexible Packaging: Eco Innovation

(Flexpack)

February 28, 2011, ... Corp. | Safeway Frozen Pasta Quad Seal Package Peruplast S.A. | Masa Pizza Printpack | Wyman's of Maine Wild Blueberry Juice Technical Innovation Oliver-Tolas Healthcare Packaging | Zone Coated Rollstock ...

Green Trends Prevail

(Flexpack)

February 28, 2011, ... heat of the beverage. While the health and safety implications of direct beverage contact are taken very seriously by the paper industry in the US and European Union, efforts to apply plastic-coated ...

Counting Clicks

(Magazine)

February 28, 2011, ... and an air delivery system that productively runs Tyvek at speeds to 300 fpm. Maxson Automatic Machinery Co. | www.maxsonautomatic.com Diamond-Coated Blades Provide Long Life Diamond-coated ...

Paper Offered in Two Varieties

(Flexpack)

February 28, 2011, Acadia uncoated, machine-finished paper, offered with or without grease-resistant treatment, is designed for use in a variety of packaging applications. Acadia uncoated, machine-finished paper, offered ...

Market Update: Coating & Laminating Special Report: Still Growing

(Flexpack)

January 31, 2011, In the world of packaging, vacuum-coated products offer converters and brand owners three key properties: barrier, aesthetics, and sustainability. Barrier In the world of packaging, vacuum-coated products ...

Coating Matters: Defects | Finding the Cause

(Coating/Laminating)

December 31, 2010, ... of time looking at, adjusting, measuring, and hovering around the coating station to determine how to make a coated product as fast as possible with the fewest defects. As you learn more about coating ...

Process Troubleshooting

(Coating/Laminating)

October 31, 2010, ... continuous product. Applications can be as varied as optical film coating to adhesive tape manufacturing. Regardless of the product being made, Six Sigma can be applied to web-coated products. Six Sigma ...

Coating Tech Service Presents at AIMCAL Fall Tech Conference

(Coating/Laminating News)

October 13, 2010, ... in all layers of the final product to equilibrium. Coated or laminated paper processes typically require high temperature curing which creates moisture imbalances between the paper substrate and the coating ...

Packaging Paper: Better Days Ahead?

(Flexpack)

September 30, 2010, ... the end-user's specification. Applications that involve uncoated papers of one type or another in fact represent the largest single segment at about 29% of the total packaging paper volume. The next largest ...

Pilot Coaters: Small Volume, Big Advances

(Coating/Laminating)

September 30, 2010, ... benchtop has not changed fundamentally for many decades. Typically a 1-2-sq-ft sheet is coated using a doctor device such as a die, blade, or Mayer rod. The sample then is dried with ambient air on a benchtop, ...

Barrier Films: SiOx Barrier Benefits

(Coatings)

September 30, 2010, ... remains in the amorphous state and stays clear. When SiOx-coated films are produced, the silicon oxide is heated by the electron beam and evaporates as glass vapor. The condensate on the film forms ...

Pulse Names Graymills for Digital UV Varnishes

(Inks/Coatings/Primers)

September 23, 2010, ... accept digital inks. The formulations are suited to a wide range of substrates including coated paper, board, coated thermal paper, treated and primed synthetics as well as aluminium foils. “HP Indigo ...

Flexographic Printing: 9 Shine

(Flexography)

June 30, 2010, ... Coated) category. Explains Degree of Difficulty Judge Bob Muma (National Envelope), “The flesh tones were spectacular, especially in light of the fact that the piece carried such large areas of both high ...

Special Report: Pressure-Sensitive Labels-Locked & Loaded

(Print)

June 30, 2010, ... into the label adhesive or coated above or below it. In the label face material (paper or film), a catalog of covert options might include two- or three-dimensional, customer-exclusive watermarks; nylon ...