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Printing Proofs-Color Control: Spot On!

(Print)

April 30, 2011, ... to market at lightning speeds, and you've got the Herculean feats packagers perform on a daily basis. Industry leader Jones Packaging met its proofing challenges head-on with the installation of GMG ...

Label Converters Look to the Future

(Label/Tape)

March 31, 2011, ... with an informative, insightful, and humorous look at the current economic climate and the ray of light that is finally coming in to view for the next few years. Tuesday's session opened with Steve Farber, ...

AIMCAL Awards: Canisters Blow Away Competition

(Coating/Laminating)

March 17, 2011, ... back. Transfer metallizing is said to help the relatively lightweight insert lay flat because it permits moisture loss and gain on both sides of the sheet. Transfer metallizing achieves source reduction ...

Green Converting: Is IML Sustainable?

(Label/Tape)

February 28, 2011, Although sustainability means different things to different people, it generally includes minimizing use of energy and non-renewable resources as well Although sustainability means different things to ...

Burrows Paper Receives FSC Certification

(Flexpack News)

February 09, 2011, Burrows Paper Corp. announces its recent Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) chain-of-custody certification. This certification recognizes that Burrows, a world leader in light weight paper and packaging ...

Core Savings

(Winding Unwinding Rewinding)

December 31, 2010, ... in thickness and thus in O.D., even by just a few thousandths of an inch, it is not atypical for the operator to set the splice diameter slightly higher than if the cores were consistent. In this way, ...

ICE Gets Social

(Trends/Management)

November 30, 2010, ... “We are delighted to share the ICE USA social media network with the converting industry and look forward to building the communities that will be beneficial to the industry,” says Michael Boyle, show ...

In-Mold Breaks the Mold

(Label/Tape)

October 31, 2010, ... in greenhouse gas emissions while imparting structural strength that results from the internal diamond lattice surface. Top-load performance is maintained despite significant light-weighting. A laser-engraved ...

Looking South

(Label/Tape)

October 31, 2010, ... movement in many end-use market sectors. Our annual “state of the industry” online survey, conducted between December 2009 and January 2010, highlighted a number of challenges and issues. Costs Are ...

FTA Co-Sponsors Educational Conferences at CPP Expo

(Trends/Management News)

October 14, 2010, ... a much finer writing beam, reaching a fully addressable resolution of 4000dpi without lowering CTP throughput. Using more pixels in the screening dots (especially in the highlight area where the dots are ...

Barrier Films: SiOx Barrier Benefits

(Coatings)

September 30, 2010, ... We Need Barriers in Packaging Products? Barriers prevent interchanging actions between packed food products and their environment (see Figure 1). This can be anything from dust, contamination, light, ...

Press Meets Demands for Short Runs

(Flexography)

September 12, 2010, Short run demand continues to dominate discussions in the label printing industry, and Mark Andy reports that it has a strong, proven solution ST. LOUIS, MO | Short run demand continues to dominate discussions ...

Show Previews: Three To Go

(Trends/Management)

August 31, 2010, ... means for companies that want to enter or expand their businesses in the overseas marketplace. Another special exhibit is the “Visions in Polymers” presentation. It spotlights visionary developments ...

Green Converting: Leading the Pack

(Flexography)

August 31, 2010, ... Dr., West Henrietta, NY 14586 | 585-424-3880 | www.hammerpackaging.com Hammer Packaging's sustainability program includes the following highlights: 100% of the ink and 99% of the coating remaining ...

Conference Program

(Label/Tape)

July 31, 2010, ...  Printed, flexible displays, lighting, transistors, solar cells, and much more New printed electronics products Opportunities for converters, equipment providers, and labelmakers Speaker: Raghu Das, ...

Info*Flex Visitors Laud Harper Exhibit

(News | New Products)

May 16, 2010, ... attention within the industry even nine months after its market introduction. Another product that attracted second looks from booth visitors was the new Harper Ultra Lightweight (ULW) Anilox Sleeve. ...

Trends in technology

(Coating/Laminating)

April 30, 2010, ... Dark Field Technologies; Hector Marchand, NDC Infrared Engineering; Ed Gutoff, consultant; Ted Lightfoot, DuPont; Tom Giles, Aspect Automation. Coater performance capabilities Line speed 29-1,000 ...

A time to celebrate

(Special Reports)

April 30, 2010, ... ten years to bring even more new services and value to members around the globe.” For more on AIMCAL and the coating industry, check out our timeline of highlights from the past decade, see Charles ...

Web Guiding | Lateral Motion Causes

(Web Lines)

March 31, 2010, ... concerns to rest. The next biggest sin is threading. When you thread up a line from scratch, invariably, you put the web slightly off center of where it wants to run. In many paper processes, the transition ...

NEWS CLIPS

(Magazine)

March 31, 2010, ...  A Lighting Section Guide to specify stroboscopic inspection lighting is available as a download from Unilux, Saddle Brook, NJ, at www.unilux.com. The Industrial Blade Solutions Div. of Hyde ...