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Track & Trace

(Magazine)

July 31, 2007, ... directly, usually in the same pass as other human-readable printed data. The aim is to achieve significantly lower cost RFID labels at five cents. This is forecast to be a commercial reality by 2010 ...

Automated Web Handling Reduces Costs

(Web Handling)

July 30, 2007, ... now in its second generation of Cid family management. Founded by German Cid in 1958, today the company is run by his son, managing director Iban Cid, a former FINAT president. The Cid family has maintained ...

Working Undercover

(Magazine)

June 30, 2007, ... with standard ink but with taggants, for laying down small, machine-readable “footprint” marks directly on a package or its label. Food Safety & Retailing Some advanced label stock materials in use ...

CONVERTER CLIPS

(Magazine)

June 30, 2007, ... director of The Blackstone Group, says, “Klöckner Pentaplast has a strong international market position and performance.…We will continue to support [its] aggressive growth and investment strategy.  ...

New Products

(Magazine)

June 30, 2007, ... Stable Position Degraf, Lacchiarella (MI), Italy; +39 0 2 900 90 196; degraf-group.com Concept 305 P is a processor for plates to 36 x 48 in. The movement of the brushes, oscillating in opposing directions, ...

Driving R&D

(Magazine)

June 29, 2007, ... with real-world application knowledge and the expertise to properly apply it,” says Dr. Karl Reid, research center director. “Rockwell Automation looked at what we wanted to accomplish, listened to our ...

the PLACE

(Magazine)

May 31, 2007, ... Where nucleation provides benefits is high optical performance combined with better physical properties. Compared to an LL/LDPE blend, nucleation can improve machine direction tear by up to 50%. Similarly, ...

Converter Clips

(Magazine)

April 30, 2007, ... our operations in plastic film metallizing,” says Jamil Zaidan, managing director and owner of the OPP Film Group, “so it was extremely important that we invested in the best equipment available to produce ...

Cause & Defect

(Magazine)

April 30, 2007, ... used to determine defect type and to start corrective action. In-line coating weight measurements scan the entire moving web and produce defect maps, which show machine-direction and transverse-direction ...

East Beats West

(Flexpack)

February 28, 2007, ... of flexible packaging specifications for direct consumer packaging. Almost half this total was used in the huge Asia Pacific regional market, but even so, per capita consumption of substrates in this region ...

What's Ne

(Magazine)

February 28, 2007, ... This 11.5-ft-wide digital imager features company’s Quadro Array print technology. Features include dpi resolution of 400–600; CMYK plus white ink and spot colors managed by a quick-change system; direct ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

February 28, 2007, ... homologues, and direct precursors from its fluorotelomer products. The products, designated LX Platform, are expected to be drop-in replacements for current DuPont products. This is said to meet key commitments ...

A Look at Liquid

(Magazine)

January 31, 2007, ... Part 2 | Part 3 | Contract Servicing Directory | New Products A Look at Liquid The extrusion coating market is mature in North America, growing overall, across all market segments, at about 1.5%–2%/yr. ...

Metallizing Matures

(Magazine)

January 31, 2007, Innovative use of metallized products will drive future growth as traditional markets begin to slow. Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Contract Servicing Directory | New Products Metallizing Matures The ...

Lessons in Laminating

(Magazine)

January 31, 2007, MCT resolves an air bubble defect to produce film suitable for ultra-high-resolution, digitally imaged medical applications. Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Contract Servicing Directory | New Products  ...

A Look Ahead: Sustainability and Other Hot Topics

(Archive)

January 30, 2007, ... feels the uncertainty of oil prices and the direct impact that brings to feedstocks and downstream derivatives. I am concerned about its impact on our business, but I am even more concerned about its impact ...

Made of Money

(Magazine)

December 31, 2006, ... business Apollo Group’s acquisition of Berry Plastics Milestone Partners acquisition of Outlook Group *Disclosed amounts provided by Capital IQ. Bill Hornell is a managing director in the ...

Show Me the Money

(Magazine)

December 31, 2006, ...  Bill Hornell is a managing director in the Investment Banking Group at Mesirow Financial. He has completed more than 60 merger and acquisition packaging transactions. A significant majority of these ...

What's Next for China

(Materials)

December 31, 2006, ... 10%/yr or the equivalent of four new 8-m-wide extrusion lines a year. Simon King is managing director of PCI Films Consulting Ltd., based in Guilsborough, UK, and has more than 20 years of experience ...

Pouch Progress

(Flexpack)

December 31, 2006, ... application with supporting R&D by Hartmann’s labs at Rutgers. While EB-curable, surface-printed structures still are not commercially widespread, Josie Rosen, project director, Sun Chemical, Parsippany, ...