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More Pouches, More Sizes

(Bag Pouch)

May 31, 2008, ... and sizes to our customers, as well as respond more quickly to their needs with the new Mamata,” says Sal Pellingra, innovation and marketing director at Ampac. “The Vega 610…has a good cost/benefit ratio, ...

Narrow Web & Label Reporter

(Label/Tape)

May 31, 2008, ... film release liners. Splicer Adds Benefits to Flexo Process PERAK, MALAYSIA Seriharta Grafik Sdn Bhd prints cigarette packs for the tobacco group of which it is a part. Managing director Mr. Foo recently ...

Letter from the Chairman of the Board

(Label/Tape)

May 31, 2008, ... environmental sustainability and globalization initiatives are paramount — two initiatives TLMI takes very seriously. TLMI is continuously dedicating resources to environmental directives in an effort ...

Letter from the President

(Label/Tape)

May 31, 2008, ... considered an “Old Boys Club” decades ago has grown into a prominent association driven by its members and its board of directors. TLMI's volunteers who serve on and chair the association's numerous committees ...

A Look at the North American Label Market Today

(Label/Tape)

May 31, 2008, ... Wet glue and p-s labels now face competition from direct print, sleeving, in-mold labeling, and glue-applied wrap-around labels. Nevertheless, traditional global label demand continues to grow annually ...

Independence Corrugated Installs Waste Tracking System

(News Eclips)

May 04, 2008, ...  “Scrap Trakker was implemented here because we wanted to move in a direction that allowed operators to directly input waste into a centralized system,” adds Gillenwater. “The production workers on the ...

Narrow Web & Label Reporter

(Label/Tape)

April 30, 2008, ... rollers. Incorporates static heat conductive rollers immediately adjacent to the UV lamphead on the press, where air is directed through the inner cores of the roller to remove the heat. Permits many films ...

Emerging Nations

(Flexpack)

April 30, 2008, ... in Eastern Europe. This market segment is estimated to be growing at 15%-25%/yr. Poland is in the middle of vital growth in flexible package converting, notes Dr. Giancarlo Caimmi, sales director of Nordmeccanica. ...

Shrink Film Overwrapper Has Hot Wire Seal System

(Archive)

April 09, 2008, ... time are available from a touchscreen interface to provide the machine operator the convenience of making adjustments for different films directly from the touchscreen panel. To make the equipment more ...

Drupa Tour Covers Digital, Color & Proofing

(News | New Products)

April 09, 2008, ... in hall 11 on stand C56. HP’s Big Digital Push Next up was Francois Martin, EMEA graphic arts marketing director at HP, Tel Aviv, Israel, who said the company wants to accelerate the transformation ...

Conference Makes Green the Goal

(Green Converting)

March 31, 2008, ... studies, Wal-Mart had huge numbers, whereas in the printing study, respondents were much more fragmented in their responses. Brian Shuttleworth, director of global operational risk management and sustainability ...

Narrow Web & Label Reporter

(Narrow Web)

March 31, 2008, ... be configured to control optional cutter, rewinder, and applicator of the H-Series printers as well as print directly from applications installed on the following operating systems: Mac OS X, Linux, BSD, ...

What's New Product

(Magazine)

March 31, 2008, ... PFFC-ASAP 400 Measurement Tools Offered On-line measurement solutions for coat weight, coating thickness, and moisture include IR sensors to measure coat weight or moisture directly as well as differential ...

No-Wait Welding

(Coating/Laminating)

February 29, 2008, ...  Three-Ply Laminating Why Davis-Standard? According to Clark Lee, Integra's director of new business development, “I knew Davis-Standard had a history of building the type of equipment Integra needed ...

Debating China's Effect on the Environmen

(Green Converting)

February 29, 2008, ... the debate featured for the affirmative Orville Schell, Arthur Ross director of the Center on US-China relations at the Asia Society; and Barry Weisberg of the Univ. of Illinois, Chicago. Arguing the negative ...

The Market Matures

(Label/Tape)

February 29, 2008, The sleeve label in all its forms shrink, stretch, and roll-on-shrink-on/machine direction (ROSO/MD) has changed the face of the packaging market in just The sleeve label in all its forms — shrink, stretch, ...

CMM 2009 Calls for Papers

(Magazine)

January 31, 2008, NASHUA, NH Converting and package printing professionals are asked to submit an abstract to be considered for the conference portion of the next CMM show, NASHUA, NH Converting and package printing professionals ...

Get a Grip: Driving Your Web

(Archive)

December 31, 2007, ... webs. Nipping rollers should be larger than other rollers to minimize deflection-associated problems. They do provide a reliable traction capacity directly proportional to nipping force and traction coefficient, ...

Picking Up the Pace

(Web Handling)

December 31, 2007, ... levels are reached. BST Promark, a manufacturer of video inspection equipment and web process controls, has developed the ekr500 series of controllers that use push buttons for fast and direct access ...

Parallel Protocol

(Web Handling)

December 31, 2007, ... directions between three mirrors. As the unit is swept across the surface of a roll for a minimum of 20 deg, indicated in Figure 3, one laser is lengthened as the other is shortened in each of the gyroscopes. ...