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Green Bay to Chicago Declared 'Strongest' Converting Corrido

(News | New Products)

May 27, 2009, ... cutter, a fully automated cartoner, and related material handling equipment. Other companies in the group convert films and laminates, nonwovens, and supply the industry from equipment to inks, construction ...

Positive Signs From Italy

(News Clips Archive)

April 30, 2009, ... says Guido Corbella, CEO of Ipack-Ima and Centrexpo. “The results allow for a level of confidence unthinkable before the Cosmic Event and should infuse some optimism in the national economy since packaging ...

Hit the Apex at CMM

(Editorial)

March 31, 2009, ... workshops, led by instructor and PFFC columnist Timothy J. Walker, are titled: “A Practical Guide to the Ideal Laminator” and “A Practical Guide to Understanding Wrinkle Defects and Their Remedies.” Tim' ...

The Great Span Length Debate | Part 1

(Web Lines)

February 28, 2009, ... and long spans lead to flutter and out-of-plane problems. Next month we'll cover traction, tension, guiding, wrinkling, and spreading. Web handling expert Tim Walker, president of TJWalker+Assoc., ...

Bloomer Plastics Converts Custom Films

(Substrates)

February 28, 2009, ... — is home to three industrial parks, a golf course, four parks, an ice rink, and a 100-acre lake with a brand new beach and beach house. It is — as the town's website describes — the kind of place where ...

What's New Products: March 200

(Magazine)

February 28, 2009, ... Ink Is MEK-Free Belle Color gravure laminating ink system for flexible packaging now is available throughout North America. Provides advances for retort pouch, boil-in-bag, and snack food applications. ...

Examining Recession Resistance

(Editorial)

January 31, 2009, ... How do you think our industry will weather the recession? The question was appropriate because many with whom I've recently engaged in industry chatter are concerned how converters will fare in the present ...

How To Find Green Projects

(Process Management)

January 31, 2009, ... where waste can be eliminated. Here are some suggestions, some of which will need buy-in and support from the consumer company. All will reduce ink and substrate waste and decrease downtime. Use expanded ...

Narrow Web & Label Products

(New Products)

November 30, 2008, ... and lower waste, company says. Unit is temperature controlled with water circulation into the anilox mandrel and an IR lamp on the blanket cylinder. System is said to be more reactive than an ink key control ...

What's New Product

(New Products)

November 30, 2008, ... | 276-627-3332 | www.solutia.com PFFC-ASAP 401 Cold Foil Optimized for UV Luxor/Alufin KPW-OP monochrome, metallized cold foil for web printing improves the ability to overprint with UV-cured inks. ...

Door to Door QC

(Coating/Laminating)

September 30, 2008, Although Jessup Mfg. Co. defines itself as a global manufacturer and supplier of pressure-sensitive films that improve safety and productivity, Rob Jessup, Although Jessup Mfg. Co. defines itself as a ...

Do You Have a Need for Speed?

(Web Lines)

September 30, 2008, ... here is a checklist of what to consider as you think about moving to higher process speeds. How fast can you drive a roller or roll? Theoretically, there is no limit to how fast you can drive a roller ...

Mid-Year Packaging Financial Review

(News Eclips)

September 08, 2008, ... provided by the now struggling commercial and investment banks is being withheld to shrink their balance sheets and improve their capital positions. Like the broader economy, packaging deal volume fell ...

New Product Digest

(New Products)

August 31, 2008, ...  PFFC-ASAP 402 Soy Ink Prints Clean Soy-Flex printing ink is made from soy polymer, a naturally produced and renewable resource said to offer the advantage of cleaner printing. Ink reportedly is 20% ...

Stork Prints Group Debuts Digital System, Engraver at Drupa

(News | New Products)

August 06, 2008, The Stork Prints Group, a leader in rotary screen printing systems and consumable products, unveiled its first drop-on-demand inkjet system for narrow-web applications at Drupa 2008 BOXMEER, Netherlands ...

Dyne Levels Part 1

(Process Management)

May 31, 2008, ... with lower values indicating better wetting. The phenomenon of wetting in our industry is the property of a liquid-solid system, typically water-based ink, primer, lacquer, and adhesive as applied to plastic ...

Drupa New Product Digest

(Magazine)

April 30, 2008, ... of “ghosting” and temperature, dampening, and inking controls reduce waste. Visit Hall 10, Stand C40. Gidue | +39 (0) 2 96681875 | www.gidue.com PFFC-ASAP 407 Gravure Press Saves Waste The RS 4004 ...

Trail Blazing

(Green Converting)

March 31, 2008, ... the laydown of a proprietary heavy silver metallic ink as soon as it enters the press, followed by printing and a topcoating to seal the reflective base. Not only is CurtCHROME better for the environment, ...

What's New Product

(New Products)

February 29, 2008, ... Process does not require inks, ribbons, or other consumables, reportedly making it cost-effective and environmentally friendly. DataLase | +44 1477 539539 | www.datalase.com PFFC-ASAP 403 Drive Has ...

One Step Ahead

(Label/Tape)

February 29, 2008, ... the risk of counterfeiting by providing a way to prove and protect the authenticity of products. Specialty inks and papers created specifically to foil counterfeiters can help reduce the effects of fake ...