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Slitting Debris: Cracking the Case

(Magazine)

October 30, 2004, ... cause abrasive wear of both web and blade, creating a dull blade and slitting debris. Which materials create the most debris? Slitting brittle materials generates the most debris. Think about the difference ...

The Gold Standard

(Magazine)

October 30, 2004, ... of the thickness of the material, notes the company. Suppliers include FLEXcon, Sericol, RotoMetrics, DuPont Cyrel, Arsoma, and Harper Corp. of America. The company also takes second place and honorable ...

PFFC Worldwide Special Report on Release Liners, part 1

(Archive)

October 30, 2004, ... took place in Helsinki, Finland. It featured, in addition to the main conference program, an industry roundtable forum. The forum covered the effects of downgauging materials across the value chain and ...

Pilot Line

(Magazine)

October 30, 2004, ... new materials or processes. “The main use is for customers,” explains Krebs. “The second use is for us to make developments and improve designs before we take a product to market.” The company also ...

Converting Industry News

(Archive)

October 30, 2004, ... completes the center’s equipment offerings. Douglas sees moderate growth in new technologies and cold seal applications—even with the cost of raw materials rising—for the core business of Rohm and Haas’s ...

A New Habit

(Magazine)

September 29, 2004, ... doing the work of two of the company's other 16-in. presses. The press ran more than 1.1 million m of material in its first six months. In addition to the RCS 330's advanced technical capabilities, Dahbura ...

Packaging for the World

(Flexpack)

September 29, 2004, ... The company supplies a wide range of converted material to multinationals such as Nestlé, Danone, Procter & Gamble, Kraft, Frito-Lay, and Unilever. Domestic customers include some of the largest food processors ...

East Meets West - Again

(Flexpack)

September 29, 2004, ... efficiency. Having shopped around, the two were familiar with the prices and quality of European suppliers, but in the end, fate brought Currie and Pan together again in 2003 at the Converting Machinery/Materials ...

Inks, Coatings, Compliance

(Magazine)

September 29, 2004, ... water, hot fill, and pasteurization require suitable packaging materials that can resist these processing conditions. These requirements extend to packaging inks and coatings. The FDA publishes a list ...

Reporter Clips

(Magazine)

September 29, 2004, ... “”The trial results have met the company's expectations. We ran many different label materials through the system during our testing, especially harsh-environment substrates that we produce for our automotive ...

Converting Industry News, Part 3

(Archive)

September 29, 2004, ... to bring together end-user executives with specific package purchasing authority and converting materials and machinery suppliers with solutions to CPG converting. Developed and produced by Packaging ...

Labelexpo Singapore to Benefit from "Booming" Asian Econom

(Archive)

September 28, 2004, ... North America, and three to four times that of Europe. That should aid sales of label production technology, materials and services into a country with ongoing international investment — including major ...

CMM International 2005 On Track to Surpass CMM 2003 Results

(Archive)

September 09, 2004, ... ensure that we also focus more on the specific processes," Johnston explains. CMM Events points out that, in addition to the hundreds of major converting machinery and materials suppliers from around ...

The 411 on RFID, Part 1

(Archive)

August 30, 2004, ... its line of library systems technology and solution choices, the 3M One-Tag RFID System. The single-tag system for authenticating, securing, tracking, and managing library materials uses Texas Instruments’ ...

The 411 on RFID, Part 2

(Archive)

August 30, 2004, ... to them and those enclosed in ceramic material to survive harsh environments, will cost more. Sandtracker has been running commercial trials since early this year and claims five companies are trialing ...

Keep Your Eye on the Gold

(Magazine)

August 30, 2004, ... the ‘rest of the world,’ the growing preference for flexible over rigid, and the constant innovation in materials and conversion.” On another subject, this issue's special label report by AWA Alexander ...

A Touch Above

(Magazine)

August 30, 2004, ... to begin manufacturing its pressure-sensitive label constructions in the US to penetrate the marketplace fully. So in 2001, Raflatac, a laminator of paper- and film-based p-s materials for VIP (variable ...

A Communication from the PLACE Div. of TAPPI

(Magazine)

August 30, 2004, ... and converting. These people range from resin and raw material suppliers to end users such as the large food package suppliers. I look forward to serving my many friends in the industry and to making many ...

Breakin' Bounds in Barrier Films

(Magazine)

August 30, 2004, According to research firm Kline and Company's comprehensive report, High-Performance Barrier Packaging Films 2004: Business Analysis and Opportunities New materials, including new barrier films, can be ...

Release Liners: Challenges Ahead

(Magazine)

August 30, 2004, ... label stock. At the 2004 AWA Global Release Liner Conference, held in Helsinki, Finland, the consequences of rising raw material costs coupled with the impossibility of passing on price increases to ...