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Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

June 29, 2005, ... 3000-1, a nine-color 3000-3R, and an eight-color 3000-3R ES fitted with electronic shaft. Converflex, part of the Arcor Group, specializes in flexible packaging for powdered milk, confectionery and ...

"Small Guy" Equipped for Mega Growt

(Archive)

May 30, 2005, ... housed at the Mississippi facility. The company currently outsources its six- and eight-color printing to other printers/converters but plans to add its own 10-color CI flexo press by year's end. And, ...

One Stop Shop

(Flexpack)

May 30, 2005, ... The printing operation consists of seven rotogravure presses: a ten-color Schiavi, an eight-color Rotomec, two eight-color Sung An machines, and two eight-color and one four-color Rotoflex. The latest ...

Converting Industry News, Part 1

(Magazine)

March 30, 2005, ... final result was a polyester/LLDPE pouch with an extended bottom gusset to accommodate the punch hold for hanging. Kapak reports one key to its fast turnaround time was its eight-color Toshiba Sectional ...

Waste Trimmed Away!

(Magazine)

February 27, 2005, ... of more than $1 million by 21%. Its single 10-in., eight-color, Mark Andy 2200 press with one UV curing station converts as many as 6 million labels a day in its one-shift operation. And Felitti, the former ...

Reporter Clips

(Magazine)

November 29, 2004, ... presses are now up and running at two converting operations. The Control Group, Norwood, NJ, has added a 28-in., eight-color, full-servo FPC model with UV on all flexo stations. Explains CPA and co-owner ...

Packaging for the World

(Flexpack)

September 29, 2004, ... from Nestlé's headquarters in Switzerland fully qualified us as a global supplier.” There are six rotogravure presses — two Rotomec (eight- and nine-color) and four Cerutti (one six-color, two eight-color, ...

East Meets West - Again

(Flexpack)

September 29, 2004, ... press and install a new KYMC eight-color Neoflex gearless press. Over the past 20 years, Bags Inc. has run the press an average of 9 hr a day, 5.5 days a week, at about 300 fpm, and printed an estimated ...

Converting Industry News, Part 1

(Archive)

September 29, 2004, ... in a thermoformed tray covered with Curwood lidding film. The lidding stock consists of a 48-ga oriented polyester film with eight-color, reverse-printed graphics, laminated to a coextruded film comprising ...

Printing: Italian Style

(Magazine)

August 30, 2004, ... and job start-up time. A 1.12-m Schiavi eight-color, gearless, CI flexo press, in operation since 2002, and a new 1.42-m Flexotecnica eight-color, gearless, CI flexo press both have Genius Digital systems ...

Investing in Success

(Magazine)

July 31, 2004, ... its first Windmoeller & Hoelscher Astraflex eight-color, central impression, flexo press. In response to customer requirements, the company added its second Astraflex press 2001. Why the Astraflex? As ...

Converting Industry News, Part 1

(Archive)

May 30, 2004, ... to the Fox Valley Technical College in Appleton, WI. The covers will be used to protect the anilox sleeves for the PCMC Avanti gearless eight-color press installed in 2002. According to Mark Keller, ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

April 29, 2004, ... an eight-color Mitsubishi CD press, retrofitted for UV printing. The ink sequence was black, cyan, magenta, yellow, and then in-line gloss UV coating for protection. After printing, the sheets were laminated ...

The Secret's Out

(Magazine)

April 29, 2004, ... with a 6.5-in., five-color Webtron 650, followed by a 7-in., three-color Comco Cadet. LaFiesta later added two Mark Andy 2200 presses: a 7-in., six-color and a 10-in., eight-color version. But the installation ...

Proud & Proficient

(Flexpack)

April 29, 2004, ... the PE shrink film extrusion division. The converting operation contains two eight-color Grafomac rotogravure presses and one eight-color flexographic press from Windmoeller and Hoelscher (W&H). There ...

UV Flexo Press Competes with Gravure

(Magazine)

March 31, 2004, ... into the gravure market so prevalent in that part of the world. What's making this happen is a UV flexo press from GEW designated the Soma. The eight-color, 31.5-in.-wide press includes a corona treater ...

Drupa New Product Digest

(Magazine)

March 30, 2004, ...  The Primaflex CS flexo press offers easy-access printing decks featuring ink supply and wash-up capability. This eight-color, direct drive sleeve press offers a maximum repeat length of 800 mm and maximum ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

March 30, 2004, ... the gravure market so prevalent in that part of the world. What's making this happen is a UV flexo press from GEW designated the Soma. The eight-color, 31.5-in.-wide press includes a corona treater and ...

Success Personified

(Flexpack)

February 28, 2004, ... so your package represents your customer's product on the shelf.” Already going gearless with its Ro-An bagmakers, the company recently added an eight-color, 58-in. Kidder Comexi gearless press to its ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

December 30, 2003, ... a new flexo press. After comparison shopping, the flexible packaging converter chose an eight-color, gearless Sigma flexo press from Schiavi. Plant manager Carsten Pederson, explains, “We chose to invest ...