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Mactac Debuts All-Temperature Adhesive

(Coating/Laminating)

May 27, 2017, ... in its all-temperature CHILL AT hot melt adhesive product line. The new adhesive was custom-engineered for any temperature label application—including challenging cold temperature applications. Company ...

Sticking With It | Selecting the Right Adhesive for Your P-S Medical Application

(Sticking With It)

May 15, 2017, ... including a variety of hot melts, water-based acrylics, as well as solvent-based acrylics and silicones. For short-term use applications like bandage strips, hot melts and water-based acrylics are frequently ...

Beverage Cups | Taking a Deep Dive into Embossing

(Carton Box)

April 17, 2017, ... by adding an enhanced sense of touch. Offering unique formability characteristics, these materials can communicate distinctive visual and tactile effects not only on hot beverage cups, but also on cartons, ...

Show Preview | ICE USA 2017 Exhibits with InPrint USA in Orlando

(Trade Shows)

March 27, 2017, ... first electron beam system for curing inkjet inks on food packaging and enabling converters to mass produce inkjet-printed personalized labels and packaging without the food contamination risk from photoinitiators ...

GEW Set to Display UV Systems

(Coating/Laminating)

March 03, 2017, ... player in the design and manufacture of UV systems for web coating lines to 2.50 m wide. A range of UV curing equipment is available for all processes, including short wave mercury arc lamps for hot melt ...

Flexible Packaging | Bemis Earns Highest Achievement in FPA's 2017 Competitio

(Flexpack)

February 20, 2017, ... simply tear, dispense, and toss, with no excess waste. Advanced BPA-free barrier films withstand the acidic paste and hot-fill process, deliver a one-year shelf life and offer significant sustainability ...

ITW Dynatec Announces Adhesive Supply Units

(Coating/Laminating)

December 17, 2016, ... (ASU). The new ASU features single board control and is said to be easy to operate, eliminating the need for extensive or ongoing training to run the hot melt function in a production line. Compact device ...

Dow Resins Suited for Many Uses

(Flexpack)

November 06, 2016, INNATE Precision Packaging Resins are said to provide toughness and stiffness for a number of flexible packaging applications MIDLAND, MI | Dow Packaging & Specialty Plastics will showcase INNATE Precision ...

Sticking With It | What Is the Value of Technical Meetings?

(Sticking With It)

October 25, 2016, ... for manufacture of optically clear adhesives in his paper, “Optimization of LOCA Gap Fill Process by High Precision Slot Die.” Rikita had excellent photos and video of the slot die being used to make these ...

Show Preview | Pack Expo Intl. 2016 Largest Show To-Date

(Trends/Management)

October 02, 2016, ... allowing each pack to be traced back to the manufacturer at any point in the supply chain.  ITW Dynatec (Booth #N-5725), a global leader in bonding and sealing applications, will feature smart hot melt ...

AWA Reports on Pressure-Sensitive Adhesives

(Coating/Laminating)

August 28, 2016, ... modest rates, and recent economic volatility in South America has slowed previously dynamic growth prospects in that area. The study shows that UV-curable hot melt adhesives are currently showing the ...

Show Preview | Labelexpo Americas 2016 Offers Technology in Action

(Label/Tape)

August 08, 2016, ... 150 m/min. There will be a full beverage specification with company's Big Foot 50 Ton hot foiling/embossing module. Showing full range of ABG’s full automation modules – Auto die load/unload, Autoslit and ...

Sticking With It | PSAs for Labeling Applications

(Coating/Laminating)

July 11, 2016, ... types so these properties should be used as general guidelines. For instance, in recent years clear, UV-stable hot melts have been offered as well as acrylic emulsions that are more water-resistant.  ...

Sticking With It | Selecting the Right Adhesive for Your Self-Adhesive Graphic

(Coating/Laminating)

July 11, 2016, ... some of their components, namely plasticizer, as they age. These plasticizers have an adverse effect on adhesives. For rubber-based adhesives like hot melts, they “unzip” the polymers that provide the ...

Common Laminating Techniques & Associated Adhesives

(Tom’s Poly Ploys)

July 10, 2016, ... UV-curable adhesives   Solventless Lamination Polyurethanes   Hot-Melt Lamination EVA   Ethylene-butyl acrylate   LDPE For ...

Materials Handling | Pneumatic Conveyor Reduces Injuries, Cuts Waste

(Web Handling)

June 27, 2016, ... hot enough to melt the wax while conveying. Sparge rings are transition pieces with small fittings that create positive pressure and used most often with heat sensitive equipment or vapor control. Testing ...

Sticking With It | Selecting the Right Adhesive for the Job

(Coating/Laminating)

May 05, 2016, ... selected will be largely influenced by the type of coater available to do the coating; considering a hot melt when only liquid coating capability exists is not beneficial. Understanding the coating capability ...

Universal Slitter Offers New Technology

(News | New Products)

May 03, 2016, ... at drupa 2016, May 31–June, in Düsseldorf, Germany. Company also will be exhibiting, a CCA automatic core cutter, an RT2 roll handling trolley, and a hot melt coating system.  The X6 slitter/rewinder ...

Show Preview | Focus on Industrial Printing at drupa 2016

(Print)

April 28, 2016, ... LEARN MORE     Bobst (Hall 10, A60) will launch the MASTERCUT 106 PER die-cutter and a new MASTERFOIL 106 PR hot-foil stamping press that incorporates FOIL UNWINDER+, said to deliver up to 30% more ...

SAM Holds Inaugural Open House

(Coating/Laminating)

April 27, 2016, ... and hot melt coatings with a maximum width of 1,060 mm at 600 mpm (bypass speeds to 1,000 mpm). The line offers modular coating capabilities of slot die, micro gravure, pressurized chamber doctor blade, ...