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GEW Launches Next-Generation UV Monitor

(News | New Products)

March 31, 2018, ... UV sensors that give continuous monitoring of UV output on a press. Reportedly, the monitor provides effective ink curing by guaranteeing output from the lamp and reflector system.  A simple user interface ...

Sticking With It | Hot Melt PSA Primer

(Coating/Laminating)

March 26, 2018, Adhesives expert Ingrid Brase explains how hot melt pressure-sensitive products are created. Adhesives expert Ingrid Brase explains how hot melt pressure-sensitive products are created. My last offering ...

Poly Ploys | Why Wine 'Cries

(Tom’s Poly Ploys)

March 26, 2018, ... surface completely versus the fluid beading up into droplets. Compete coverage of a solid with a coating material or ink is normally needed to successfully produce industrial products. As a point of ...

X-Rite Announces Color Management System

(News | New Products)

March 24, 2018, ... to the human eye. Full Range of Color Measurements. In less than 10 sec, IntelliTrax2 measures process colors, spot colors, PANTONE colors, paper color, tone value increase, gray balance, and ink density. ...

AIMCAL Awards | Holographic Carton, Metallized Film Are Winners

(Coating/Laminating)

March 21, 2018, ... the Year competition (see below). Glitter ink provides visual and tactile impact for the portion pack in a crowded retail environment. A specialized laser-engraved rotogravure cylinder with customized ...

TRESU Launches Doctor Blade

(News | New Products)

March 18, 2018, The FlexiPrint Reservoir SAVEink chamber doctor blade is said to enhance process efficiency in narrow web flexo printing KOLDING DENMARK | TRESU announces the introduction of its FlexiPrint Reservoir ...

Lombardi Opens Doors to Show Machinery

(Label/Tape)

February 18, 2018, The company featured the Domino Digistar Inkjet flexo hybrid solution and the Synchroline flexo press BRESCIA, ITALY | Lombardi Converting Machinery recently held a three-day open house to spotlight ...

Sticking With It | PSA Acrylics Primer

(Sticking With It)

February 12, 2018, ... insight. Building blocks So, let’s start with some fundamentals. All acrylic PSAs are polymer-based. A polymer can be described as a series of small molecules called monomers that are linked together. ...

Riyadh Orders BOBST Press

(News | New Products)

February 04, 2018, ... flexo press Both presses are used for printing films (LDPE, BOPP, CPP, PET), foil, laminates, shrink sleeves, PVC twist wraps, metallized twist wraps and wax paper, wraparound labels, gift wraps, shopping ...

Troika Systems Celebrates 21 Years in Business

(Print)

January 30, 2018, ... AniCAM with Anilox QC. AniCAM, with its QC products, measures the surface profile of anilox rolls, gravure cylinders, sleeves, and plates used to deliver the correct volume of ink to the material to ...

Packaging Trends | Technological Advances Push Holograms Forward

(Carton Box)

January 29, 2018, The International Hologram Manufacturers Assn. reports on the latest eye-catching and award-winning developments. The International Hologram Manufacturers Assn. reports on the latest eye-catching and ...

Davis-Standard Introduces Winder

(News | New Products)

January 27, 2018, ... be most beneficial for CPP and barrier films where post-wrap shrinkage occurs as a result of the types of polymers used in the film structures, or where blocking can occur due to a soft sealant layer with ...

BOBST Metallizer Handles Many Films

(Coating/Laminating)

January 24, 2018, The K5 VISION vacuum metallizer is said to be compact, to provide high performance, and to reduce energy MEX, SWITZERLAND | BOBST says the new K5 VISION vacuum metallizer is compact and designed to ...

SPGPrints Offers One-Step Developer

(News | New Products)

January 24, 2018, ... Reported ideal for non-company rotary screen printing units, they are available in a wide range of meshes, for printing added-value features where a thick ink or varnish coverage is required, including ...

2018 Predictions

(Marketing Mojo)

January 20, 2018, ... within components and processes along the production line. When thinking about technology, I often look to the automobile industry to find innovation for machine manufacturing, as there always seems to ...

Coating Matters | The 6 C's of Roll-to-Roll Coating System

(Coating/Laminating)

January 18, 2018, ... a liquid on a solid in a careful balance until cured into place. Coatings below 1 micron wet thickness are typically applied through deposition techniques. I think of fluid coating as coating wet and ...

Label PRomotion | Too Little, Too Much 'Sticktoitiveness' Sully Label Appea

(Label/Tape)

January 09, 2018, ... other set of challenges—including legal liability issues if it was supposed to direct, warn, or otherwise inform people of potential danger or problems. Use the label adhesive discussion to spur thinking, ...

X-Rite Updates Firmware with SCTV

(News | New Products)

January 03, 2018, ... process control software, providing customers with the color management and workflow tools required to meet evolving industry standards, better formulate inks, and take into account the effect of substrates ...

Registration Open for interpack 2020

(News | New Products)

January 03, 2018, ... are now available online at this link or this one. The deadline for reserving exhibit space at interpack 2020 is February 28, 2019. The trade fair will be held May 7–13, 2020, at the fairgrounds in Düsseldorf, ...

Industry Predictions | TESTing Your Imagination

(Trends/Management)

December 27, 2017, Forward-thinking industry leaders submit their predictions for the gamut of converting topics, including counterfeiting, fluid & extrusion coating, recyclability, marketing, static control, adhesives, ...