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New Products

(Magazine)

March 30, 2006, ... without high voltage costs, manufacturer reports. Recommended for new material development, new application development, and small-scale production. Available in web widths from 18–66 in. Marking ...

Cut With Glass

(Magazine)

February 27, 2006, ... films are valued for their moisture barrier properties and are formed with a nonpolar surface. Polyolefins are wax-like materials with no oxygen or polar species in the polymer. While the wax-like ...

Under Pressure

(Archive)

January 30, 2006, ... Arts The wide-format graphic arts market continues to grow, not only in pressure-sensitive materials but overall. Competition from emerging technologies—particularly the screen-based options that provide ...

Paper's Prospect

(Magazine)

January 30, 2006, ... of sachet and bag packs for pet foods and sauces. Underscoring these developments is the current interest in alternative barrier coatings and materials, especially those providing environmental advantages. ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

November 29, 2005, ... waste management strategies to deal with label matrix and used release liner. Raw material prices have been, and will continue to be, a challenge. This ongoing situation was compounded by the paper ...

Linerless: The Compromise for VDP Labels?

(Magazine)

October 30, 2005, ... roll, which not only saves money but saves downtime for roll changes on the packaging line. As raw material prices rise and margins fall, the pressure on the label industry value chain to find new ways ...

Converting Industry News, Part 2

(Magazine)

September 29, 2005, ... IL—Dainippon Screen Mfg. Co, parent company of Screen (USA), has completed the latest in a series of material events to expand its digital printing business by acquiring Inca Digital Printers, Cambridge, ...

Advances in Coating

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March 30, 2005, ... and all of the material is transferred to the web. There are three types of applicators in this class of coaters: slot die, curtain, and slide, and all of them are available commercially from several vendors. ...

Waste Trimmed Away!

(Magazine)

February 27, 2005, ... most of the small customers we work with don’t know what they need; they don’t know how to go about it. They don’t know the materials. They don’t know the processes. And that’s okay, because we do. We’re ...

Converting Industry News, Part 1

(Magazine)

February 27, 2005, ... waste, it will be subject to the same conditions and financial implications as other packaging materials, per the EU Directive on Packaging and Packaging Waste. This would compound the industry’s existing ...

New Product Digest, Part 2

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November 29, 2004, Narrow web new products and materials from: AB Graphic Intl., KTI, Dover Flexo Electronics, Omet, ICI Imagedata, Dow Corning, Flink Ink, AET, Decorated Paper, Sherwood Technology, and Mitsubishi Plastics. ...

PFFC Worldwide Special Report on Release Liners, part 2

(Archive)

October 30, 2004, ... of the p-s adhesive’s property measurements: other factors affecting accuracy and precision are material conditioning and environmental control of temperature and humidity. Test panel condition, cleaning, ...

Price Fixing Cause for Alarm?

(Magazine)

August 30, 2004, ...  environment. Other raw material costs also are rising and were doing so even before the pressures introduced by oil and the cost implications of its current volatility. In this situation, it is inevitabl ...

Retort Pouch Conference a Hit

(Magazine)

May 31, 2004, ... or hydroxyl functional materials that react with an isocyanate terminated adhesive. In both cases, the resultant polymer is a polyurethane polymer.” Marcelo Valdivia, general manager of Alusa, a leading ...

Reporter Clips

(Magazine)

May 30, 2004, ... of its high-speed color ink jet press designated the.factory at Gardners, a specialty printer offering technical and promotional applications including POP materials, signs, labels, and outdoor media. ...

Converting Industry News, Part 2

(Archive)

May 30, 2004, ... work on-hand, raw material costs, capital investment, economic conditions, and more. The report is based solely on the responses of converters that have agreed to become members of our economic panel. ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

March 30, 2004, ... Corp., a supplier of ID solutions and precision die-cut materials, has acquired Brandon International, Baldwin Park, CA, USA, with operations in Mexico and Singapore. Terms were not disclosed. Brandon ...

COOL Rules!

(Magazine)

January 31, 2004, ... labeling under the law are commingled or blended products prepared from raw material sources having different origins, like bagged mixed lettuce. The law does not specify how these products should be labeled. ...

A Pharma Focus

(Flexpack)

January 31, 2004, ... operations director and a pharmacist by training, revealed exactly how the company operates. Much of foil lidding material for blister packaging is gravure printed. G&A maintains seven gravure presses. ...

Substrate Developments for RFID Labels

(Materials)

January 31, 2004, ... as part of the label substrate, and while the label material does not contribute to RFID performance, it can play an important role in optimizing that performance in the operating environment. Substrates ...