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RB Dwyer Group Shrink Label Helps Launch Ultra Fiber DX

(Label/Tape News)

April 06, 2011, ... The  360-degree image area contains information and nutrition facts on the back of the label while the front shows a distinctive graphic that includes a brilliant metallic green. The PVC label is printed ...

Big Mouth Closes

(Flexpack)

April 04, 2011, ... consumer to last use. A life cycle analysis study confirmed that resealable flexible pouches offer a superior product-to-package ratio, lower energy and solid waste footprints, and lower greenhouse gas ...

Service Makes the Sale

(Flexography)

March 31, 2011, ... to mention that Bison also is a very green company. “We recycle as much as we can to reduce our carbon footprint, including solvents, film, corrugated, and so on. We use variable speed air compressors ...

AIMCAL Awards: Canisters Blow Away Competition

(Metallizing)

March 31, 2011, ... Analytics, Greensboro, NC, for its SpecMetrix Systems coating thickness and film weight measurement technology. SpecMetrix serves as an optical interference technology to combine state-of-the-art optics, ...

INFO*FLEX Show Preview: Full Speed Ahead

(Flexography)

March 31, 2011, ... Printing Solutions Finding Sustainable Solutions to Your Recycling Challenges — Joseph Meindl, American Recycling & Mfg. Complying with the New FTC Green Guides — Jean-Cyril Walker, Keller & Heckman ...

People

(Trends/Management)

March 31, 2011, ... of ECRM, Tewksbury, MA, passed away January 18 at the age of 76. The Sustainable Green Printing Partnership, Seattle, WA, appoints Shannon Palmer executive director. Mark Steele is the new ...

AIMCAL Awards: Canisters Blow Away Competition

(Coating/Laminating)

March 17, 2011, ... Technology of the Year Award is Sensory Analytics, Greensboro, NC, for its SpecMetrix Systems coating thickness and film weight measurement technology (12). SpecMetrix serves as an optical interference ...

People

(Trends/Management)

January 31, 2011, ... CEO, succeeding Charles Knott, who will continue as chairman; and Mario Busshoff is promoted to president, Flint Group Flexographic Products. WS Packaging Group, Green Bay, WI, honors co-CEO Ken ...

Converter Industry Events

(Magazine)

January 31, 2011, ...  MARCH 3 | Converters Expo 2011, Converting Influence, Lambeau Stadium, Green Bay, WI; www.convertersexpo.com 8-9 | uv.eb WEST 2011, RadTech Assn., Biltmore Hotel & Suites, Santa Clara, CA; www.uvebwest.com ...

Web Lines: Don't Flip Out - It's Just a Web Fl

(Web Handling)

January 31, 2011, ... in blue. The web helically wraps the first air bar and exits with a 90-deg turn heading south, now with side B up, shown in green. The web wraps a roller (or rollers) for 180 deg and heads ...

ITW Labels, LogoTech Receive TLMI L.I.F.E. Certification

(Label/Tape News)

January 03, 2011, ... L.I.F.E. is a program designed specifically for the narrow web marketplace and addresses four key elements of the narrow web printing and converting industry: clean production, energy and greenhouse gases, ...

Optimism Returns

(Trends/Management)

December 31, 2010, ... for the gravure industry to continue to develop more cost-effective ways to produce the gravure-printed product. Gravure also is being considered a green process in that there are no printing plates to ...

Converter Industry Events

(News Clips Archive)

December 31, 2010, ...  24-26 | Graphics of the Americas Expo & Conference, Orange Cty. Convention Ctr., Orlando, FL; www.GOA2011.com MARCH 3 | Converters Expo 2011, Converting Influence, Lambeau Stadium, Green Bay, WI; ...

Flexo Platemaker Is VOC-Free

(Prepress)

December 31, 2010, ... system. With no solvents and no required plate drying, energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions are reduced. Fujifilm North America Corp. | 914-789-8329 | www.fujifilmusa.com Welcome ...

Fresh Fruit, Fresher Air

(Flexpack)

November 30, 2010, Clear Lam Packaging Reclosable Bag with High Oxygen Transmission Rates Replaces Rigid Plastic Tray for Del Monte Fresh Apples Clear Lam Packaging, Elk Grove Village, IL, provides Del Monte with a reclosable ...

Davis-Standard Equips New Jen-Coat Plant

(Extrusion Coating)

November 30, 2010, WESTFIELD, MA | Packaging Solutions Holdings is planning a state-of-the-art, greenfield packaging plant in the Midwest (location not determined at presstime). WESTFIELD, MA | Packaging Solutions Holdings ...

Landfill Alternatives

(Label/Tape)

November 30, 2010, ... recycled content requirements. CRG also has formed a partnership with Greenwood Fuels, a company that pelletizes p-s matrix, the other nonrecyclable byproduct, to create an alternative fuel that replaces ...

Experience Speaks: Larry Owen

(Trends/Management)

November 30, 2010, ... who work hard and play hard. What sustainability efforts has your company made? In addition to using all water-based technology, our division works diligently to create specific green products to ...

Sun Offers GHG Report

(Inks/Coatings/Primers)

November 30, 2010, ... to meet sustainability goals with data-driven metrics. The analyses focused on greenhouse gas emissions associated with the product manufacturing and distribution phases, or the “gate-to-customer gate” ...

Pack Expo Reveals Attendance Traffic Success

(Trends/Management News)

November 14, 2010, ... the entire packaging and processing supply chain. • PAC Green Den, “Fast Tracking Sustainable Innovation,” conducted by PAC—the Packaging Assn., invited innovators to a half-day panel  to present their ...