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Global Giants

(Flexpack)

March 30, 2006, ... significantly lower labor costs has provoked many western European converters to relocate or open turnkey plants in these regions. Amcor Flexibles has announced that a significant amount of its tobacco ...

2004 RFID What's New

(Archive)

February 26, 2006, ... to be a high performance, low-cost, turnkey RFID label system that vastly improves the reliability of remote monitoring, processing, and transmitting data in the supply chain. Power Paper and Graphic Solutions ...

First Glance

(Magazine)

January 30, 2006, ... As the drink cools, the lid changes slowly back to brown, signaling the beverage may be getting too cold to drink. The product uses FDA food-contact-compliant additives. With license agreements in place ...

Coating & Laminating Services Directory 2006

(Archive)

January 30, 2006, To view the 2006 Coating & Laminating Special Report as a PDF, click the link below: Appleton Coated 2909 E. Broadway Dr.; Appleton, WI 54913 p: 920/687-3267; f: 920/687-3609; This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.; ...

Group Focuses on Innovation

(Magazine)

December 30, 2005, ... by noting that four basic areas normally are discussed at the annual meeting. These are centered on the following: New technology—production; Development of new materials; Trends in raw materials; and ...

First Glance

(Magazine)

September 29, 2005, ... allows for manufacturing that is less costly and less energy-intensive while maintaining the industry-standard absorbency range of 15–30 grams. In addition, the open-edged design absorbs moisture within ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

August 30, 2005, ... It may be found at very low trace levels in some fluorotelomers products, DuPont says, which are used primarily to provide stain resistance to a number of textile products and grease-resistance to paper ...

Laboring Lean

(Magazine)

July 30, 2005, ...  Bundled web reporting tools allow use anywhere on Dura-Fibre’s local intranet. Productivity data can be viewed by site, shift, or individual machine operators. For example, a shift summary report tool ...

New Products, Part 2

(Magazine)

May 30, 2005, ... colors with four-color images or photos by using a special ICC profile that harmonizes the higher densities required when printing ECP, leaving photos in their natural state. Cure with Lower ...

A Communication from the PLACE Div. of TAPPI

(Magazine)

May 30, 2005, ... adhesion of a dispersed phase toward the matrix with reference to the peel quality obtained at an interface. Polybutene-1 is a polymer with an intrinsic high shear sensitivity and low heat of fusion ...

Truth or Myth?

(Magazine)

May 30, 2005, ... by using the correct polymers, resins, waxes, and additives. They attempt to formulate low, medium, and high slide angle coatings. Truth. We tested the slide angle of board coated with different commercial ...

Materials

(Magazine)

April 29, 2005, ... the substrate with final UV curing ink. Patent-pending process has the ability to print holographic screen images, which allows the holographic image to appear in countless colors and areas. Anti-Static ...

Flexo Goes to Florida

(Magazine)

April 29, 2005, ... explained a test study that showed it is possible to run CMYK in place of spots and stay below 1.0 delta-E. The wide range of technical sessions covered prepress, fundamentals; inks and coatings; business ...

Which Ink for Which Substrate?

(Magazine)

March 30, 2005, ... sent to the lab. The corona treatment decays, and the treatment level when it reaches the lab is somewhere below the original value. Therefore, the initial lab results may look worse than they will on ...

Converting Industry News, Part 1

(Magazine)

February 27, 2005, ... remain inflated. SUPPLIER NEWS Lab Extrusion Line Running GREENFIELD, MA—Argotec announces the startup of its new blown film laboratory extrusion line. Identical in function to the company’s ...

Converting Industry News, Part 2

(Magazine)

December 30, 2004, ... come from EVA, although from a smaller base, due to greater barrier requirements in food markets. PVC and PVDC films are expected to exhibit the slowest increases. For more information contact Freedonia ...

New Product Digest, Part 1

(Magazine)

December 30, 2004, ... films. High-resolution IR filters are incorporated into a robust measurement head, allowing sensor to measure up to four product constituents continuously at the same time. Company adds this makes it ideal ...

Wanted: US Markets

(Flexpack)

December 30, 2004, ... converters, they tend to obtain fourth-tier orders for inexpensive commodity materials. Maybe that’s OK, but often I advise these converters their orders are far below their technical capacity, and they ...

The 411 on RFID, Part 2

(Archive)

August 30, 2004, ... low-cost, turnkey RFID label system that vastly improves the reliability of remote monitoring, processing, and transmitting data in the supply chain. Power Paper and Graphic Solutions Intl. jointly developed ...

Converting Industry News, Part 2

(Archive)

May 30, 2004, ...  Corrugated, Boxes Rebound CLEVELAND, OH, USA—Demand for corrugated and paperboard boxes is projected to climb 2.8%/yr to more than $35 billion in 2007, a rebound from a 2002 low. Advances will be stimulated ...