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- Eco Fiction
- (Substrates)
- August 31, 2009, ... biodegrading. Nothing actually will happen for a long time in most of today's landfills. It doesn't matter which definition of biodegradability you reference — whether the product or material has to break ...
- FTA Announces Call for Entries in Flexo Awards Competition
- (News | New Products)
- August 30, 2009, ... any work that has an extremely high level of execution, or any work that includes the use of techniques, processes, controls, materials, tooling, or equipment that contributes to the advancement of the ...
- Seeing Clearly
- (Coatings)
- July 31, 2009, ... been single-sourced in a critical intermediate raw material.” The new film dyeing line, which began operation in March, impregnates clear polyethylene terephthalate films from suppliers such as Mitsubishi, ...
- The Bag Cycle
- (Bag Pouch)
- July 31, 2009, ... the integration of ultrasonic and heat seal technology to produce fully automatic pouch and bagmaking machinery. For a bubble pack bag machine, the web from large rolls of insulated bubble pack material ...
- Global Sleeve Label Market & Technology Report
- (News | New Products)
- July 22, 2009, ... availability of its newly updated 2009 review of the Global Sleeve Label Market & Technology. The report provides a global review of sleeve label markets for label stock producers, material suppliers, ...
- Tuflex India Inaugurates Greenfield Converting Plant
- (Flexpack Main)
- July 20, 2009, ... worldwide. The press meets market demands for a compact, cost-effective, and highly productive machine for medium-to-long runs of high quality printed flexible packaging materials. The model now in production ...
- Playing the Wrinkle Blame Game
- (Web Lines)
- June 30, 2009, Imagine you are an unwind operator. You unwrap the next roll of input material, splice it into the machine, and hit the run button. Then you see them Imagine you are an unwind operator. You unwrap the ...
- Forensic Packaging
- (Special Reports)
- June 30, 2009, ... Coating Technology Advances in material science and thin film coating techniques have created platforms for security label technologies. The number of potential devices that can be used offer manufacturers ...
- Flexo Forum Fervor
- (Flexography)
- June 30, 2009, ... Even at a 1% growth level for the 2010 GDP, it actually represents 4% or 5% growth from the -4% GDP for the Q1 2009 period. Our biggest materials price hikes are behind us. Emerging markets will become ...
- New Adhesive Achieves Cure, Regulatory Compliance in 3 Days
- (Archive)
- June 08, 2009, ... from 1–1.15 lb/ream, these adhesives offer good adhesion to a wide variety of substrates. Printed, metalized, or otherwise coated materials and a myriad of sealant layers are no problem. These systems ...
- Clean Cut
- (Slit Main)
- May 31, 2009, ... small rolls as efficiently as possible.” He says he uses tooling from “experts like Tidland and Dienes who really know cutting.” Dusenbery's Marold says that in spite of the wider variety of materials ...
- Extreme Slitting
- (Slit Main)
- May 31, 2009, ... types of fabrics. Today, Metlon is one of the country's premier custom slitters of a much wider product range that includes films, papers, fabrics, flexible materials, and more. Etchells is more than happy ...
- Critical Trends: 2009 PFFC Survey
- (Archive)
- May 31, 2009, ... reported staff reductions in 2008, with overall employment decreasing by an average 2.7%. Materials Costs Trends in 2008 materials costs reflected those of previous years. As in the past two years, ...
- Mark Andy XP5000 on Display at New Faith Open House
- (News | New Products)
- May 14, 2009, ... held on April 22, 2009, and hosted by New Faith, United Printing Equipment & Materials Corp. and Mark Andy, drawing more than 140 attendees, including suppliers, converters, end-users, and media. The ...
- Web Exclusive: Flat Die Technologies Emerge as Keys to Innovation in Solar Electric Systems
- (Archive)
- May 13, 2009, ... system consists of two thin layers of semiconductor materials, typically silicon-based. One is boron-"doped" so that it functions as the positive layer, and the other is phosphorus-doped to make it the ...
- IMDA Offers Membership Discount
- (News | New Products)
- May 03, 2009, ... through June 30, 2009. The In-Mold Decorating Assn. is an organization of molders, printers, material suppliers and equipment manufacturers committed to the development and growth of in-mold decorating ...
- Natural Beauties
- (First Glance)
- April 30, 2009, ... compacts in place of conventional category components. Anthem's design works with the specified substrates, while transparent materials and die-cut windows are used to show off the makeup's luminous colors. ...
- Rx for ER
- (Flexpack Main)
- April 30, 2009, ... as a worldwide supplier of flexible packaging materials for the healthcare and food industries. Yet company president Dhuanne Dodrill says the Chicago-area converter still maintains the innovative spirit ...
- OMET Forms Partnership with Clemson's Sonoco Packaging Inst
- (News | New Products)
- April 08, 2009, ... ink systems. The press platform can handle polymer substrates as thin as 12 microns, or paperboard materials as heavy as 600 microns, while achieving high-end registration through a complete servo controlled ...
- Web Exclusive: Matching Laser Cutters to Labels
- (Archive)
- April 01, 2009, ... (rotary dies, steel rule dies, and hard tool dies) http://pffc-online.com/die_cut/ . Material thickness and material handling considerations sometimes make laser cutting preferable (e.g., for very thin ...