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Q&A with Prepress Provider Agfa

(Magazine)

April 30, 2001, ... proofing for packaging is very important. Also [we'd like] to bring proofing products down to the same economical price as you find in the commercial market. That's been a big difference. And you mentioned ...

Jet Inks, Colorants, and Packaging What's Ahead

(Magazine)

April 30, 2001, ...  Commercial use of pigments in jet inks goes back at least a decade. Use of pigments in jet inks developed in Japan, but it has moved to many applications in the US. While the use of carbon black and ...

DIGITAL SOLUTIONS NEWS

(Magazine)

April 30, 2001, ... the co.'s first European installation of the Xcalibur VLF (very large format) computer-to-plate (CTP) system. According to Agfa, Limmatdruck AG, a large packaging and commercial printing co. near Zurich, ...

Sheet-Fed Label Converter to Keep Winning Ways

(Magazine)

April 30, 2001, ... printing business: His father owned a commercial printing company in Nashville during the late 1960s and early 70s. He landed a sales position with Nicholstone Cos., one of the nation's largest trade binderies, ...

High Clarity Linear Low Density Polyethylene for Packaging Applications

(Magazine)

April 30, 2001, ... and 50% RH unless otherwise specified. Specific extrusion conditions were as follows: 2.5 in. (6.35 cm) commercial extruder with 24:1 L/D 2.4:1 blow-up ratio 4.7 lb/h/in. die circumference 6 in. ...

Products at CMM

(Magazine)

March 31, 2001, ... imaged by commercially available flexo computer-to-plate engines and processed in 15 min with the 1000TD, providing “just-in-time” platemaking. Visit Booth 13000 at CMM International. Bowed Rolls Provide ...

Materials

(Magazine)

February 28, 2001, ... the first commercial production run of a PE resin using its new-generation Star™ single-site catalysts. The catalysts reportedly create polymers with a broad density range; superior processing characteristics; ...

Reporter Clips

(Magazine)

February 28, 2001, ... label packaging, and lamination markets. The company is expected to go commercial with the new capacity during the first quarter of 2001. Plastic Suppliers also reports a newly designed web site in ...

Reporter Clips

(Magazine)

January 31, 2001, ... MPS is a young company that has proven its capabilities to commercialize a new technology in our industry in a very short period of time. However, we realize we cannot be everywhere and wanted to make ...

What's New in Digita

(Magazine)

January 31, 2001, ... sides of the actual printing stock; and the ability to proof almost any spot color. System was in beta testing in late 2000. Early production and commercialization phases are expected to be completed soon. ...

Innovative Problem-Solving: Advances in the Industry

(Magazine)

January 31, 2001, ... and a 96-in. coater/laminator, plus a Faustel pilot coater, the only commercially made machine in the plant. The 62-in. machine is designed for thin film and foils (0.00025 in.). The two 80-in. machines ...

Reporter Clips

(Magazine)

December 31, 2000, ... transponders into its products for authentication and asset protection. According to Mikoh, TI's RFID technology brings advanced data storage and data security to Mikoh's government and commercial customer ...

In-Mold Labeling Makes Strides Worldwide

(Magazine)

December 31, 2000, ... the injection molding process, and the shape and size of a molded product. Some film types developed especially for label applications are commercially available. Michael Bethge of Avery Dennison in ...

Digital News for the Converting Industry

(Magazine)

October 31, 2000, ... SP process. We are now working with several leading press manufacturers to bring this technology to commercial reality in about two years." Xeikon to Integrate Agfa Digital Printing Systems MORTSEL, ...

Estimating the Drying Rate of Flexo Ink in the Laboratory

(Magazine)

September 30, 2000, ... commercial press. The drying speed is determined at a specified oven temperature at the point where the ink will not set off. This is the "tack-free drying point." Once the tack-free drying point is ...

Technology Puts Converter "In-Line" for More Succes

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September 30, 2000, ... of seven winners in the 1999 Top Packaging Awards and also gave it the Green Globe Award for Environmental Achievement. In addition, the product was cited for its environmental and commercial contributions ...

Canadian Banknote Installs Brookfield Viscometers

(Magazine)

August 31, 2000, ... and commercial scratch-off coatings for restaurants and department store games. The Comco press has three solvent-based ink reservoirs and six that are UV radiation cure units with UV dryers, two of ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

August 31, 2000, ... an international association that endeavors to raise awareness concerning the unique advantages that waxed paper offers. Walther van Oers, commercial manager of Rotterdam-based Cats Flexible Packaging ...

Snack Food Packaging: 100 Years and Counting

(Magazine)

June 30, 2000, ...  catalysts, Natta experiments with the polymerization of propylene and obtains PP with the regular molecular structure. The properties—high strength, high melting points—of these polymers soon prove commerciall ...

Release Papers: New Trends Are Driving the Market

(Magazine)

May 31, 2000, ... printing machines without curling or misfeeding. While commercial digital imaging has yet to reach the projections put forth when the technology was launched, it is a growth sector that looks more robust ...