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Green Converting: Landfill Diversion

(Green Converting)

August 16, 2011, ... struggle with garbage. The root of our challenges with garbage and waste always comes down to one question: Where are we going to put it? Since the 1980s, population growth and advances in material and ...

Package Design: Make an Impact

(Flexpack)

July 31, 2011, ... & Gamble partnered with Be Green Packaging to repackage Gillette's Fusion ProGlide razor with a formable pulp tray made of renewable bamboo and bulrush fiber-based material to move away from the clamshell ...

Roll-Sleeve Film: Helping Shape Brand Identity

(Label/Tape)

May 10, 2011, ... film materials such as bi-axially oriented polypropylene (BOPP) shrink to 10%-20% maximum. This allows only limited conformability potential for label contouring. New label materials offer shrinkages greater ...

Service Makes the Sale

(Flexography)

March 31, 2011, ... was ten to twelve pallets of material! The thing that a lot of customers like about us is that we can tailor a solution for them. “A lot of the bigger [converters], aren't willing to do that,” suggests ...

AIMCAL Awards: Canisters Blow Away Competition

(Metallizing)

March 31, 2011, ... Coated, Laminated, or Metallized Product category. Developed in conjunction with Detection Systems, Bayswater, Australia, the patent-pending material resembles a honeycomb that divides the metallized area ...

AIMCAL Awards: Canisters Blow Away Competition

(Coating/Laminating)

March 17, 2011, ... impactful three dimensionality. Continue to Page 2 Sustainability Awards The Sustainability Awards honor equipment, materials, or processes that reduce environmental impact, minimize energy usage ...

Market Update: Coating & Laminating Special Report: Still Growing

(Flexpack)

January 31, 2011, ... and in the case of metallized products, light. This property is invaluable, particularly for packaged foods. Aesthetics | The aesthetics of vacuum-coated materials are excellent. Highly reflective metallized ...

Core Savings

(Winding Unwinding Rewinding)

December 31, 2010, ... roll-fed processes start: the unwinding roll. Nonstop Roll Change Each time a roll-fed press or process press stops, it creates waste. Automatic splicing will eliminate material waste, but one factor ...

Tobacco Packaging: The Final Billboard

(Carton Box)

November 30, 2010, ... more premium packaging as a way to enhance the connection between the consumer and the brand. Package design, shape, color, feel, and material choice are proliferating and have become more critical today ...

Diamond Wins 3X

(Carton Box)

October 31, 2010, ... said to demonstrate Diamond's expertise in sustainable packaging design through right sizing, material selection, and the use of MiraFoil coating, described as an economical, in-line alternative to foil ...

Looking South

(Label/Tape)

October 31, 2010, ... of continuous pressure and change. Pressure has come in various forms: lower market growth rates, raw material price inflation, and waste creation and management issues. As a result, there has been considerable ...

Packaging Paper: Better Days Ahead?

(Flexpack)

September 30, 2010, ... have a lot in common. This includes similar papermaking and converting operations in many cases, a common set of competitive substrates and materials, similar end-user/supply chain requirements, and similar ...

Barrier Films: SiOx Barrier Benefits

(Coatings)

September 30, 2010, ... mechanical impact, gas, and moisture to aromas. The food product itself also may influence its direct environment when it is spicy or contains essential oils or aggressive ingredients. Packaging materials ...

You Get What You Pay For, Part 2

(Tom’s Poly Ploys)

July 27, 2010, ... is getting a good price on resins and is extremely efficient at processing the materials, thus the low price. Or… perhaps they are buying off quality materials, or changing the product construction to ...

Sleeves Record Data

(Prepress)

June 30, 2010, ... system from Fischer & Krecke. All rotec sleeves for the system have an RFID chip and a register sensor, meaning relevant data such as the print diameter, job design, and used materials can be recorded ...

Lou Guzzetti

(Trends/Management)

June 30, 2010, ... Coating LLC 518 E. Water St., Troy, OH 45373; 937-332-6500 www.spinps.com Founded in 1928 as Brown-Bridge Mills 5 plants; 230 employees Specialization | Base material laminate for p-s labels How ...

Flexpack: DuPont Honors Innovation

(Flexpack)

May 31, 2010, ... is said to be the industry’s longest-running, independently judged global awards program honoring packaging materials, technology, and service innovations. “This year we focused the DuPont Awards program ...

Teaming for Better Bag

(Bag Pouch)

May 31, 2010, ... film, the two companies developed a ½-in.-wide strip said to save time and money and decrease raw material usage. Rollprint's structure is a 2-mil nylon, extrusion coated with 2 mils of its proprietary ...

Flexpack: Slider Bags

(Flexpack)

May 20, 2010, ... decreases raw material usage.  Rollprint’s structure is a 2-mil nylon extrusion coated with 2 mils of its proprietary Allegro B peelable sealant.  The nylon side offers good puncture strength and toughness, ...

Trends in technology

(Coating/Laminating)

April 30, 2010, ... methods Development of fundamental process engineering science concepts, which have been used to improve the design of equipment coating applicators and the behavior of materials during handling and ...