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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 ...

Alpha Packaging Acquired by PPS

(Trends/Management)

October 31, 2010, ... expands its spare parts storage facilities to make parts available to customers faster than before. Keller Crescent Co., Greensboro, NC, a Clondalkin Group company, celebrates its 125th anniversary. ...

In-Mold Breaks the Mold

(Label/Tape)

October 31, 2010, ... Elements include a tamper-evident lid and “greener” package features that befriend both consumer and manufacturer alike. Molder: Jokey Canada. Mixing It Up Brand owner Truco Enterprises' On the Border ...

Looking South

(Label/Tape)

October 31, 2010, ... collaboration in liner recycling.” Last year, Frost and Petri Tani joined forces to launch Cycle4Green — a “cradle to cradle” solution for paper release liner, based not so much on reuse but on repulping. ...

Experience Speaks: Randy Nebel

(Trends/Management)

October 31, 2010, ... certification from the Sustainable Forestry Initiative for our paper mill and box plant products. We reduced water consumption by one-third since 2005 and cut total greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) by more ...

Coating Tech Service Presents at AIMCAL Fall Tech Conference

(Coating/Laminating News)

October 13, 2010, ... manufacturing, especially as the 4green! label is providing a marketing edge in commerce. But what are the limitations? How thin can an adhesive be stretched before the rheology of the polymer is detrimental ...

People

(Trends/Management)

September 30, 2010, ... Suzanne Costanza director of sales. WS Packaging Group, Green Bay, WI, names Rex E. Lane CEO, replacing the retiring Terry Fulwiler, who will continue as chairman of the board until June 2011.  ...