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ETI Converting Signs Five Contracts at Drupa

(News | New Products)

August 03, 2008, Continuing the success it has enjoyed during its nearly 20 years as a manufacturer of p-s label converting equipment, ETI Converting Equipment reported that it signed five contracts during the just completed ...

Green Gravure

(Gravure)

July 31, 2008, At a time when many flexographic printers and converters are focused on “growing green,” one New York-based converter of flexible packaging and labels is going one better: by going green — and gravure ...

Web Exclusive: Are Sleeves Ready for Narrow Web?

(Archive)

July 31, 2008, While the number of machines with sleeve technology is growing in label printing, many users still are hesitant about using them. Sleeves became a standard on flexographic presses for package printing ...

Drop-on-Demand Inkjet System Offers Flexibility

(News Eclips)

July 22, 2008, The Stork Prints Group unveiled its first drop-on-demand inkjet system for narrow web applications at Drupa 2008 BOXMEER, NETHERLANDS | The Stork Prints Group unveiled its first drop-on-demand inkjet system ...

Mark Andy Customers Honored FTA Annual Forum

(News | New Products)

July 21, 2008, Mark Andy Inc., a world leader in narrow web printing equipment, has announced that half of the 32 labels awarded in the Narrow Web category of the 2008 Excellence in Flexography Awards ST. LOUIS, MO | ...

Start with Security

(Label/Tape)

June 30, 2008, Counterfeiting of packaging and labels has become far easier to perpetuate in recent years. Originally a problem related to items such as currency, passports, Counterfeiting of packaging and labels has ...

Printing Partnerships

(Special Reports)

June 30, 2008, ... to protect their products, not just through monitoring the manufacturing and distribution chain but, critically, at item level via print — in all its forms — on packaging and labels. Print's Function ...

Paper's Pledg

(Archive)

June 30, 2008, ... costs US companies nearly $250 billion a year in lost revenue. While the problem is far too vast and complex to be solved solely through the enhanced security provided by labels and packaging, a number ...

Edible Markers

(Special Reports)

June 30, 2008, ... and inventory control are desired, then overt technologies like holograms, security labels, and bar codes are an option. If contamination and adulteration are the issues, then you must know for what you ...

Trends Impacting Converters

(Editorial)

June 30, 2008, ... at over 15,000. The qualified respondents grew this year to 293, comprising converters of flexible packaging; tapes, labels, and tags; unprinted rolls and sheets (including coated substrates); and paperboard ...

Sheeting Lines Bring Solutions

(Sheeting)

June 30, 2008, ... in labeling and strapping technology, and two Langhammer high-speed palletizers. It has a 3.48-m working width, said to be the widest of its kind. The other line comprises an eight-pocket E.C.H. Will ...

Spear Purchases Precision Printing & Packaging

(News Eclips)

June 15, 2008, CINCINATTI, OH | Spear, a leading global supplier of beverage labels, has purchased the Precision Printing & Packaging (PPPI) unit from Anheuser-Busch Packaging Group, based in St. Louis, MO CINCINATTI, ...

Roll Stock Inventory Control for Paperboard Industry

(News Eclips)

June 15, 2008, ... bar-coded labels affixed to the rolls. The RF-enabled (radio frequency) Roll Stock Module utilizes hand-held scanners to control bar-coded raw materials inventory. The company says the RF SmartScreen allows ...

News Clips

(News Clips Archive)

May 31, 2008, ... for its cellulose acetate film for carton windows, print lamination, and labels. Kocher + Beck USA, Lenexa, KS, acquires American Die Technology, Suwanee, GA. Max Daetwyler, Bleienbach, Switzerland, ...

Letter from the President

(Label/Tape)

May 31, 2008, ... niche for their own businesses and for a new industry. Over the course of the following decades as the label decoration sector expanded, TMI became TLMI when the decision was made in 1962 to expand the ...

TLMI Born of NRA

(Label/Tape)

May 31, 2008, ... from 19 companies. The Textile Fiber Products Identification Act of 1958 further helped the tag industry flourish by requiring that “each textile fiber product (except those exempted) shall be labeled…,” ...

Serving the Environment

(Label/Tape)

May 31, 2008, ... information for the tag and label industry.” TLMI's Liner Recycling Subcommittee originally was established to develop a liner waste recycling program for members that will benefit the environment, the ...

Chicago Cutting Die Celebrates 85 Years

(News Eclips)

May 04, 2008, ... most of their work was for the apparel industry, and for manufacturers of envelopes and labels,” said President Lyle Archer. “Today, most of our work is in the fields of personal care, pharmaceuticals, ...

Elegance & Speed

(Label/Tape)

April 30, 2008, ... the valued supplier to end-users in 26 countries. Packaging products include shrink sleeves and in-mold and blow-mold labels that combine offset and gravure technologies to deliver the superior quality ...

In a Celebratory Mood

(Editorial)

March 31, 2008, ... use in flexible packaging; unprinted rolls and sheets (including coated substrates); tapes, labels and tags; and paperboard packaging. Thanks to your involvement, PFFC's readers will have the unique advantage ...