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China & India: Flex-Pack Leaders?

(Flexpack)

September 30, 2007, PCI Films Consulting predicts that between now and 2010, half the world's growth in flexible packaging will be in China and India. But how will this shake out if China's qualilty control issues follow into ...

Ready for Change

(Magazine)

September 30, 2007, ... years. “We focus on short- to medium-run, high quality prime labeling,” says president Franklin Nice. “We can do any kind of pressure-sensitive label, and we do some specialty flexible packaging—nonpressure-sensitive ...

Thomas E. Tyndall

(Magazine)

September 30, 2007, ...  Three simultaneous outcomes: happy customers, happy employees, and happy shareholders. Do you have a personal hero? Michael Jordan. He’s a fierce competitor with class. About Eagle Flexible Packaging ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

September 30, 2007, ... materials are used are diverse, ranging from liquid packaging and flexible packaging for both foods and non-foods. In western Europe as in North America, the “traditional” commercial markets for extrusion-coated/laminated ...

AIMCAL Hosts Annual Fall Technical Conference

(Archive)

September 29, 2007, ...  The 2007 event opens with a keynote address by Mark Fihn, publisher and editor-in-chief of Veritas et Visus, who will discuss all aspects of the evolving display market including flexible displays, ...

Narrow Web & Label Reporter

(Magazine)

August 31, 2007, ... at its pharmaceutical label converting operation in Pennsylvania. Crocker is a supplier of self-adhesive labels, flexible packaging, and cartons. The system will transform the preproduction workflow ...

WHAT'S NE

(Magazine)

August 31, 2007, ... Suited for pigmenting and designed to laminate rough and smooth optical enhancement films to flexible or rigid materials. Exopack Advanced Coatings | 704-847-9171 | exopackadvancedcoatings.com | ...

On Being Earth Friendly by (re)Design

(Magazine)

August 31, 2007, ... products or utilities that produce less waste in the first place (to borrow from the Flexible Packaging Assn.) to fuel our unconscious acts? Utilize materials, machinery, and equipment that take these ...

Scoring the Scorecard

(Magazine)

August 31, 2007, ... president of the Flexible Packaging Assn. (FPA). “It’s going to require a lot more communication between converters and [their customers] and a lot more communication between converters and suppliers of ...

News Clips

(Magazine)

August 31, 2007, ... W&H, EDI, PIMA, Flexotecnica, FPA, Amcor Flexibles, and People in the news. Covering the Full Spectrum of Industry News, Events & Activities NEWS BRIEFS The Foodservice & Packaging Inst., Falls ...

CONVERTER CLIPS

(Magazine)

July 31, 2007, ... rise at a strong pace through 2010, driven by a resurgent US electronics industry. The market for flexible printed circuit boards is expected to rebound from declines posted during the period of 2000-2005, ...

WHAT'S NE

(Magazine)

July 31, 2007, ... glue application guns, are designed to hold corrugated blanks securely for accurate glue placement. Feature solid construction, a flexible design, and a floating glue application head that accommodates ...

the PLACE

(Magazine)

July 31, 2007, Characteristics of flexible food packaging materials; new studies toward understanding adhesion of polyolefins to primed substrates; the effect of calcium carbonate concentrate base resin melt index on ...

Renewing CMM Enthusiasm

(Magazine)

June 30, 2007, ... credit for the effort expended to create a working atmosphere at this year’s CMM. The two new demo centers—one for flexible packaging and another for narrow and mid-web converting—unquestionably drew the ...

CONVERTER CLIPS

(Magazine)

June 30, 2007, ... of the Bobst Group North America suite of Internet-powered services for converting manufacturers. Bobst Group’s Flexible Materials division now can deliver InView Quality Management, developed and hosted ...

Up to the Task

(Magazine)

June 30, 2007, ... and beauty aids, nutraceuticals, and medical devices. Ampac Flexibles—PFFC-ASAP 310. ampaconline.com Hi-Z metallized sealant web is designed to replace expensive metallized triplex materials without ...

A Communication from the PLACE Div. of TAPPI

(Magazine)

June 30, 2007, ... (HDPE), and low density polyethylene (LDPE). Lid structures used in flexible consumer packaging products such as ice cream, yogurt, orange juice, etc. have two or multilayer structures composed of either ...

Narrow Web & Label Reporter

(Magazine)

June 29, 2007, ... Chinese market, especially targeting the label and narrow web sectors. China has been a fast-growing market for AVT for several years, the company says, with leading customers in the flexible packaging, ...

Critical TRENDS

(Special Reports)

May 31, 2007, ... converters are thriving and surviving. What you see in the following pages are cumulative answers to the questions we posed converters in these segments: flexible packaging (23% of respondents); paperboard ...

What's Ne

(Magazine)

May 31, 2007, ... label materials, including flexible packaging, white and clear films, synthetic papers, PVC, HDPE, PET, coated and uncoated papers, and tagstocks. Said to provide fast turnaround. PFFC-ASAP 403 Coat, ...