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How Closed-Loop Integrated Motors are Meeting the Demand for Higher Acceleration Rates and Faster Machine Cycles

(Drives/Motors)

March 08, 2020, ... or cost.  Besides, retrofitting for a larger step motor can be time-consuming and expensive, requiring new mounting brackets, power supplies and even an increased drive size. Closed-Loop Step Motors ...

Is it the End for Non-Recyclable Plastic Packaging?

(Flexpack)

March 02, 2020, Nothing perhaps defines our consumer-driven society of recent decades better than plastic. The different types of mono-material high barrier pouches exhibited on the BOBST stand at K 2019 By BOBST ...

State of the Industry Report

(Nonwovens)

March 01, 2020, ...   The strong and improving drivers of the U.S. economy are supporting increased demand for nonwoven products in almost every sector.  Since nonwovens can be engineered to meet specific performance attributes ...

Multi-Solution Approach Key to Achieving Sustainability Goals

(Extrusion Coating)

February 24, 2020, ... and paper-based flexible packaging formats over glass, metal and rigid containers. As society and consumers drive towards more sustainable packaging solutions, regulators and value chain industry players ...

Roundtable Q&A: Slitting, Winding & Unwinding

(Slit)

February 16, 2020, ... more consistently.  Are improved control systems helping with waste reduction? Please explain. Pappas: Control systems have improved waste reduction in two ways. First, when you drive an unwind ...

BOBST Opens the Doors to its New Flexo Center of Excellence

(News | New Products)

February 16, 2020, ... a decade of experience working with printers and prepress specialists globally to drive greater adoption of process printing for flexo. Glunz & Jensen: the pre-press room houses a Flex-i-Pro 470 plate-making ...

Jack Noonan Joins SGIA as Vice President of Business Development

(News | New Products)

February 12, 2020, ... to join the nonprofit, mission-driven SGIA organization at such a vital time in our industry,” says Noonan. “I’ve had the pleasure of working with both the SGIA and NAPCO Media teams throughout my career. ...

Atlantis-Pak Installs Mark Andy Flexo Press

(Digital)

February 02, 2020, ... felt that the Mark Andy made better use of servo drive technology than the other two presses we trialled.  It ran faster with better quality across the range of paper and film substrates we use here, and ...

Dover Flexo Electronics – The Tension Control Specialists

(News | New Products)

January 19, 2020, ... will amplify the web tension signal from a transducer (or transducer pair) to deliver an isolated 0-10VDC tension signal to a PLC, drive, controller, or HMI. A full featured tension controller like our ...

Kerscher Succeeds Sheppard at AIMCAL

(News | New Products)

January 11, 2020, Chris Kerscher succeeds Craig Sheppard, who retired at the end of 2019 after 21 years at the helm of the association. AIMCAL begins 2020 with a new executive director. Chris Kerscher succeeds Craig ...

Corona Treating System

(Corona, Flame, Plasma)

January 02, 2020, ... driven rollers. In order to make the grounded roller cover more durable, epoxy coverings were introduced.  Some designs were just solid epoxy resin; others included glass fiber or glass matte making ...

Netpak Gains Exceptional Efficiencies with EFI’s Packaging Suite Technologies

(News | New Products)

December 19, 2019, ... to launch iQuote, EFI’s intelligent estimation and planning solution.   Data-driven productivity with industry-leading workflow solutions   To further advance the company’s operations, Netpak conducted ...

What’s Next in Inkjet and the Many Reasons to Adopt it

(Digital)

December 16, 2019, ... is increasingly seen as an evolutionary driver of printing techniques and such evolution enables the printing of increasingly complex materials. The contactless nature of inkjet opens up myriad new markets ...

Interket Ltd. Purchases Third MPS Flexo Press

(News | New Products)

December 08, 2019, UK-based label manufacturer Interket UK purchased a new 8-color, fully automated MPS EFA 530 flexographic press. United Kingdom-based label manufacturer Interket UK purchased a new 8-color, fully automated ...

Digital Printing Driving Innovation in Textile Printing

(Digital)

December 05, 2019, ... by easy online tools that make it simple to start selling customized clothing commercially. These fit into the growing uses of e-commerce in the apparel industry at large, where continued growth will drive ...

Printing Industry's Trends, Best Practices and Performance Improvement in 201

(Print)

December 02, 2019, ... MPS already drive the continuity, security, performance and reliability of the print infrastructure via monitoring of devices, predictive maintenance, remote diagnostics and analytics. MPS providers can ...

Flexible Packaging, a Converting Dynamo

(Converting Perspectives)

December 01, 2019, ... Writer Flexible packaging makes the most of converters' capabilities, from printing, to form/fill/seal, pouches and many aspects that are the growth stars of the industry.  Market drivers include elements ...

Davis-Standard’s Global Equipment Platform at Plast Eurasia

(News | New Products)

December 01, 2019, ... to the barrel; an AC drive and motor; and a high capacity air-cooling system. It has been an effective option for pipe and profile, sheet, fiber and specialty system processes, among others. MEDD Extruder ...

The Toray Commons Opens in the University of Rhode Island’s New Engineering Complex

(News | New Products)

November 18, 2019, ... making a long-term strategic decision, one driven by an absolutely overwhelming imperative that we need the best people we can find to run our business. For us, the new College of Engineering is a long-term ...

Global Graphics Appoints New CEO

(News | New Products)

November 16, 2019, ... been concluded including Meteor Inkjet, the industrial printhead driver solutions specialists, and, Xitron LLC, a leading developer of prepress solutions. He has been the driving force behind the company’s ...